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On The Death Of An Infant
SWEET babe! how peaceful is thy sleep, That sleep which wakes to pain no more...
Isabella Lickbarrow
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Lines, Occasioned By The Death Of An Infant
To the EDITORS of the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE. GENTLEMEN, If the effusions of...
Judith Sargent Murray
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Buddha-death
Buddha-death: the moonflower's face, the snake gourd's fart
Masaoka Shiki
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The Hollow Men
                A penny for the Old Guy                           I We are...
T. S. Eliot
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The Show
My soul looked down from a vague height with Death,As unremembering how I...
Wilfred Owen
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Somebody's Baby's Dead
A hearse all draped in mourning,With white plumes overhead,Bearing a little...
Madge Morris Wagner
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In Memoriam (Father Keeler)
Father Keeler died February 28, 1880, in Mobile, Ala. -Inscribed to his...
Abram Joseph Ryan
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Lxiii. after the death of vittoria colonna
AFTER SUNSET.Be' mi dove'. Well might I in those days so fortunate,  What...
Michelangelo
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LXXIV. First Reading
A PRAYER FOR GRACE IN DEATH.S' avvien che spesso. What though strong love of...
Michelangelo
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Sonnet XIV. On The Religious Memory Of Mrs. Catharine Thomson, My Christian Friend, Deceas'd...
When Faith and Love which parted from thee never, Had ripen'd thy just soul...
John Milton
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Of The Nature Of Things: Book III - Part 05 - Cerberus And Furies, And That Lack Of Light
Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surge Of horrible heat- the which...
Lucretius
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On The Death Of The Rev. Mr. Peele
Let Fame her trophies to Ambition raise, Of monumental and historic praise;...
Elizabeth Bentley
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Sailing to Byzantium
That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the...
W. B. Yeats
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Because I could not stop for Death
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage...
Emily Dickinson
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Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there...
Edgar Allan Poe
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O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every...
Walt Whitman
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Funeral Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with...
W. H. Auden
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Death, Be Not Proud [Holy Sonnet X]
Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for...
John Donne
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Jabberwocky
’Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy...
Lewis Carroll
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close...
Dylan Thomas