Decay

57 poems

Carcasses, rotting fruit, ruins: poems about decay, where beauty meets decomposition. Read them on Loëly.

A Cinque Port

John Davidson

A love poem from a physician to his mistress

Jonathan Swift

A Northern Suburb

John Davidson

A Postcard from the Volcano

Wallace Stevens

After a hundred years

Emily Dickinson

An October Garden

Christina Rossetti

Animal Tranquility And Decay

William Wordsworth

Arabesque

Emma Lazarus

Autumn

William Henry Davies

The Collected Poems of William H. Davies

Autumn: A Dirge

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Canto IV - I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Canto IV - Oh, Rome! my Country! City of the Soul!

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Canto IV - The Niobe of nations! there she stands

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Description of an author's bed-Chamber

Oliver Goldsmith

During Wind and Rain

Thomas Hardy

Earth's Immortalities

Robert Browning

Faded pictures

William Vaughn Moody

In the Shadows

David Gray

Must

Alun Lewis

On a Faded Violet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

On Christina Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

On Leaving Newstead Abbey

George Gordon Byron

On Spies

Ben Jonson

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

William Wordsworth

Our Thrones Decay

George William Russel

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Passing and Glassing

Christina Rossetti

Queens

John Millington Synge

Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study

Thomas Hardy

Anna Seward

Sonnet to evening

Mary Robinson

Sonnet to Ingratitude

Mary Robinson

Sonnet XCII

Anna Seward

The Beginning

Rupert Brooke

The Braes O' Ballochmyle

Robert Burns

The Chambermaid's Second Song

William B. Yeats

New Poems

The Manner of the World Nowadays

John Skelton

The Old Women

Arthur Symons

The Sick Rose

William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

The Sphinx

Charles Baudelaire

Les Fleurs du Mal

The True Beauty

Thomas Carew

Upon a dead man's head

John Skelton

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