Mortality
154 poems
We are mortal, and poets never forget it: poems about mortality and the fragility of life. Read them on Loëly.
'Tis not that Dying hurts us so
Emily Dickinson
'Twas warm — at first — like Us —
Emily Dickinson
10. - Time flies, hope flags, life plies a wearied wing
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
A Cradle Song
William B. Yeats
A day dream
Emily Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety
William B. Yeats
New Poems
A Lament
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
A Postcard from the Volcano
Wallace Stevens
A Scene At The Banks Of The Hudson
William Cullen Bryant
After
Robert Browning
After a hundred years
Emily Dickinson
After-Thought
William Wordsworth
After-Thought
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All Things will Die
Alfred Lord Tennyson
An Acre of Grass
William B. Yeats
New Poems
An End
Christina Rossetti
As those we love decay, we die in part
James Thomson
At Melville's Tomb
Hart Crane
Autobiography
William Soutar
Ballades IV - Of Life
Andrew Lang
Book 1, Ode XI: Tu ne quæsieris
Quintus Horace
Odes - Livre I
Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son
Homère
L'iliade
Book IV - Dear Pledges of my Love
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book IV - Such were his Looks, so gracefully he spoke
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Buds and Babies
Christina Rossetti
Canto I - Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Canto IV - But I have lived, and have not lived in vain
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 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Consumption
William Cullen Bryant
Credo
Arthur Symons
Day That I Have Loved
Rupert Brooke
De Morte
Francis Bacon
Death
Helen Hunt Jackson
Death-Watches
Christina Rossetti
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
During Wind and Rain
Thomas Hardy
Dust
William Soutar
Dust
Rupert Brooke
Dying (I heard a fly buzz when I died)
Emily Dickinson
Earth's Immortalities
Robert Browning
Fontinella to Florinda
Jonathan Swift
Fragment
Rupert Brooke
Fragment
Thomas Hardy
Friends
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Golden Silences
Christina Rossetti
Hamatreya
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He Meditates On The Life Of A Rich Man
Isabella Augusta Gregory
His Vision Of Death
Isabella Augusta Gregory
I had no time to Hate
Emily Dickinson
I've Thirty Months
John Millington Synge
III - Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart !
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Imitated from the Japonese
William B. Yeats
New Poems
In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
Thomas Hardy
Inscription For The Front Of The Pedestal Of A Lately Deceased Poet's Statue
James Henry
Poematia
Lazy
James Weldon Johnson
Let the Light Enter
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Life
James Weldon Johnson
Low Tide
Unknown
Man
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies