Grief
159 poems
Saying goodbye, learning to live with absence: poems about grief to keep you company on hard days. On Loëly.
'Twas lately said in open court
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
A brown girl dead
Countee Cullen
A death scene
Emily Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
A dream of Death
William B. Yeats
A Grief Ago
Dylan Thomas
A Lament For Fair-Haired Donough That Was Hanged In Galway
Isabella Augusta Gregory
A Lamentation For The Death Of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
James Clarence Mangan
A Poem Written In Time Of Trouble By An Irish Priest Who Had Taken Orders In France
Isabella Augusta Gregory
A Question
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
Dylan Thomas
A Song Of Eternity In Time
Sidney Lanier
After Death
Christina Rossetti
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
Emily Dickinson
After The Burial
James Russell Lowell
An End
Christina Rossetti
And There Was a Great Calm
Thomas Hardy
Anna and Harland
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Another Weeping Woman
Wallace Stevens
As those we love decay, we die in part
James Thomson
Behold, the grave of a wicked man
Stephen Crane
Bion
Andrew Lang
Book IV - Such were his Looks, so gracefully he spoke
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book XIX - Soon as Aurora heaved her orient head
Homère
L'iliade
Book XVIII - A flood of tears, at this, the goddess shed
Homère
L'iliade
Book XVIII - Stood Nestor's son, the messenger of woe
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - Not so Achilles, to grief resigned
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - Sad Helen next in pomp of grief appears
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - Think of thy father's age, and pity mine
Homère
L'iliade
Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre
Edith Wharton
Break, break, break
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Buried Love
Sara Teasdale
Canto I - Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Clown In The Moon
Dylan Thomas
Come not when I am dead
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cupid Slain
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Death of Gormlaith
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Death's Game
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
December, 1919
Claude McKay
Dedication to Malcolm Nicolson
Adela Florence Nicolson
Dirge - In sorrow of her bereavement
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
Encouragement
Emily Brontë
Epitaph : From “The Fading Rose”
Philip Freneau
First Book
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh
Go Down Death
James Weldon Johnson
Have You News of my Boy Jack?
Rudyard Kipling
He Never Smiled Again
Felicia Hemans
His Lament For O'Daly
Isabella Augusta Gregory
His Lament For O'Kelly
Isabella Augusta Gregory
How Keen The Pang
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
I Looked Up from My Writing
Thomas Hardy
I never lost as much but twice
Emily Dickinson
If I should learn, in some quite casual way
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In Memoriam A. H. H. 116
Alfred Lord Tennyson
In My Craft Or Sullen Art
Dylan Thomas
In Tenebris
Thomas Hardy
Inheritance
Unknown
June 1915
Charlotte Mew
Kincora
James Clarence Mangan
Lament For Banba
James Clarence Mangan