Dirge (George Darley Poems)
Prayer unsaid, and mass unsung, Deadman's dirge must still be rung:Dingle-dong, the dead-bells sound! Mermen chant his dirge around!Wash him ...
Poems about tombstone (21 Poems)
WALTER VON DER VOGELWEID (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Vogelweid the Minnesinger, When he left this world of ours, Laid his body in the cloister, Under Wurtzburg's minster towers. ...
NUREMBERG (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint ...
The Naulahka (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
The Father Of Toads (Russell Edson Poem)
A man had just delivered a toad from his wife's armpit. He held it by its legs and spanked it. ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
On A Distant View Of Harrow (Lord Byron Poem)
Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov'd recollection Embitters the present, compar'd with the past; Where science first dawn'd on ...
Churchill’s Grave (Lord Byron Poems)
I stood beside the grave of him who blazed The comet of a season, and I saw The humblest of ...
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin (Robert Browning Poem)
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
A Jewish Cemetery In Germany (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery, a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by ...
8 Count (Charles Bukowski Poems)
from my bed I watch 3 birds on a telephone wire. one flies off. then another. one is left, then ...
Under The Round Tower (William Butler Yeats Poems)
'Although I'd lie lapped up in linen A deal I'd sweat and little earn If I should live as live ...
As At Thy Portals Also Death. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AS at thy portals also death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my mother, to the divine ...
The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill (Robert William Service Poems)
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
For my own Monument (Matthew Prior Poems)
AS doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; For delays ...
Saving a Train (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1869, and on the 19th of November, Which the people in Southern Germany will long ...
The Loss of the Victoria (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
Catharine Breese Livingston (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
Tombstone I fondly nursed an opening rose, And view'd its beauties every day; But ah! a withering storm arose And ...
What the Sexton Said (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Your dust will be upon the wind Within some certain years, Though you be sealed in lead to-day Amid the ...
How You Spent Your Dash? (Poem)
I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend He referred to the dates ...
The Dash (Poem)
I've seen death stare me in my own eyes The way many of you cannot know, I've seen death take ...