Afterlife
24 poems
What comes after? Heaven, hell, nothingness: poems about the afterlife and what we imagine. Read them on Loëly.
11. - Many in aftertimes will say of you
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
After Death
Christina Rossetti
Assurance
Emma Lazarus
Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son
Homère
L'iliade
Book IV - Such were his Looks, so gracefully he spoke
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book VI - Then thus reply'd the Prophetess Divine
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book XI - And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - The ghost of Achilles came up to us
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - The ghosts of other dead men stood near me
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - Then came also the ghost of Theban Teiresias
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - We got into the deep waters of the river Oceanus
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - When Proserpine had dismissed the female ghosts
Homère
L'Odyssée
Dust
Rupert Brooke
Encouragement
Emily Brontë
Epitaph
David Gray
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
John Keats
Not For That City
Charlotte Mew
Sonnet LVIII
Anna Seward
Sonnet V. The South Seas
Rupert Brooke
The Haunter
Thomas Hardy
The Life Beyond
Rupert Brooke
Thoughts during Sickness. V. Flight Of The Spirit
Felicia Hemans
When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted
Rudyard Kipling