death

MY SISTER'S SLEEP from kendrive ^Pro 23 days old

In this poem Dante Gabriel Rossetti describes the last moments of a dying girl's life through the narration of her brother. MY SISTER'S SLEEP She ...

IT COMES TO US ALL from kendrive ^Pro 32 days old

SONNET 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In ...

FEAR NO MORE from kendrive ^Pro 45 days old

I am leaving Shakespeare's sonnets for the time being, as I am detecting a "sameiness" about them, which may become boring. There is much more poetry ...

TWILIGHT AND EVENING BELL from kendrive ^Pro 86 days old

Today a poem from our twelfth Poet Laureate - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), anticipating his death. He succeeded Wordsworth in the post and became ...

REMEMBER from kendrive ^Pro 88 days old

This sonnet by Christina Rossetti may be well known to you, as it is often used at funerals! When it first appeared in “Goblin Market and Other Poems" ...

MY BOY JACK from kendrive ^Pro 96 days old

"My Boy Jack" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling who wrote it after his beloved son, John (called Jack) went missing in the Battle of Loos on 27th September ...

TOGETHER from kendrive ^Pro 108 days old

[ ... ] That, while fair life, young hope, despair and death are, We ’re boy and girl, and lass and lad, and man and wife together. Thomas Lovell Beddoes

STAR WARS from kendrive ^Pro 114 days old

[ ... ] war and death are ever present in our human world. THE BREATH OF NIGHT The moon rises. The red cubs rolling In the ferns by the rotten oak ...

THE FUTILITY OF WAR from kendrive ^Pro 117 days old

[ ... ] death, but many people believe that he committed suicide by deliberately walking into the path of the vehicle. This five-line poem is ...

I REFUSE TO REMEMBER THE DEAD from kendrive ^Pro 119 days old

A CURSE AGAINST ELEGIES Oh, love, why do we argue like this? I am tired of all your pious talk. Also, I am tired of all the dead. They refuse to ...