Memento mori
41 poems
"Remember you must die": memento mori poems that help us measure the value of life. Read them on Loëly.
A Mother to her sick Child
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
A Superscription
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
After a hundred years
Emily Dickinson
All Things will Die
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ballades IV - Of Life
Andrew Lang
Credo
Arthur Symons
De Morte
Francis Bacon
Dust
William Soutar
Dust
Rupert Brooke
Earth's Immortalities
Robert Browning
Friends
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Hamatreya
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He Meditates On The Life Of A Rich Man
Isabella Augusta Gregory
His Vision Of Death
Isabella Augusta Gregory
Man
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Memento Mori
Christina Rossetti
My Sweetest Lesbia
Thomas Campion
Ode on the Spring
Thomas Gray
Passing and Glassing
Christina Rossetti
Plants and Men
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Scythe Song
Andrew Lang
Sonnet 64
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 77
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet LXXXI
Anna Seward
Sonnet XCII
Anna Seward
Sonnet XLII
Anna Seward
Sonnet XXIV
Anna Seward
Such, Such Is Death
Charles Sorley
Tempus Fugit
Christina Rossetti
Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant
The Dead Man
Joseph Lee
The Lake lay hid in mist, and to the sand
John Wilson
The Life of Man
Francis Bacon
The Posts
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
The Spider
James Henry
Poematia
The To-be-forgotten
Thomas Hardy
This Night
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
To a dead crow
Kashiprasad Ghosh
To The Oaks Of Glencree
John Millington Synge
When I am old
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
When You See Millions Of The Mouthless Dead
Charles Sorley