Poor Mailie's Elegy (Poem by Robert Burns)
Poor Mailie's Elegy By Robert Burns Lament in rhyme, lament in prose, Wi’ saut tears trickling down your nose; Our bardie’s fate is…
Poem about Death
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux (Poem by Robert Burns)
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux By Robert Burns Now Robin lies in his last lair, He’ll gabble rhyme, nor sing nae mair, Cauld poverty, wi’ hu…
On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair (Poem by Robert Burns)
On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair By Robert Burns The lamp of day, with ill-presaging glare, Dim, cloudy, sunk beneath the western wave; Th…
His Dream (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
His Dream By William Butler Yeats I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt-end of a steering-oar, And saw wherever I could turn A crowd …
A Dream of Death (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
A Dream of Death By William Butler Yeats I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand, And they had nailed t…
Death and Life (Poem by Emily Dickinson)
Death and Life By Emily Dickinson Apparently with no surprise To any happy flower, The frost beheads it at its play In accidental power. The blond a…
Life and Death (Poem by Walter Whitman)
Life and Death By Walter Whitman The two old, simple problems ever intertwined, Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled. By each successive …
Death (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Death By Rainer Maria Rilke Before us great Death stands Our fate held close within his quiet hands. When with proud joy we lift Life…
Life and Death (Poem by Duncan Campbell Scott)
Life and Death By Duncan Campbell Scott I thought of death beside the lonely sea, That went beyond the limit of my sight, Seeming the image of his m…
A Mother’s Lament for the Death of her Son (Poem by Robert Burns)
A Mother’s Lament for the Death of her Son By Robert Burns Fate gave the word, the arrow sped, And pierc’d my darling’s heart; And with him all …