Poems on Death

POEMS ON DEATH:

And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair – by Lord Byron (1788-1824)
The Burial of the Dane – by Henry Howard Brownell (1820-1872)
Death, Always Cruel – by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
A Death-Bed – by James Aldrich (1810-1856)
A Death-Scene – by Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
Dora – by T. E. Brown (1830-1897)
Epitaph on an Infant – by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers – by Thomas Carew (1595?-1639?)
A Gravestone – by William Allingham (1824-1889)
The Hardest Lot – by John White Chadwick (1840-1904)
Identity – by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1906)
Interior – by Mariano Brull (1891-1956)
Lament for the Two Brothers Slain by Each Other’s Hand – by Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.)
The Letter – by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1906)
Little Nell – by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Little Paul – by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Malaria – trans. by Laurence Hope (1865-1904)
Mulberry Hill – by Alice Cary (1820-1871)
The Murdered Traveller – by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
My Playmate – by Alice Cary (1820-1871)
Nanine – by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
O Death, Rock Me Asleep – by Anne Boleyn? (1507?-1536)
On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman That Died Suddenly – by William Cartwright (1611-1643)
On the Brink of Death – by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
On the Burial of His Brother – by Caius Valerius Catullus (87-57 B.C.)
On the Death of Catarina de Attayda – by Luis Vas de Camões (1524-1580)
On the Death of His Mistress – by Abu Sahet Alhedhily (Unknown)
On the Tomb of Sayid – by Abd Almalec Alharithy (Unknown)
Presentiment – by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Presentiment – by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Prospice – by Robert Browning (1812-1889)
A Reminiscence – by Anne Bronte (1820-1849)
The Remorse of the Dead – by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Requiescat – by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
The Sea-King’s Burial – by Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
Some Day, Some Day – by Cristóbal de Castillejo (1490-1550)
Song from Ælla – by Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
Thanatopsis – by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
To Vittoria Colonna – by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
Unforgotten – trans. by Laurence Hope (1865-1904)

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