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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

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'Twas warm — at first — like Us —

Emily Dickinson

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10. - Time flies, hope flags, life plies a wearied wing

Christina Rossetti

Monna Innominata

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A Cradle Song

William B. Yeats

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A day dream

Emily Brontë

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety

William B. Yeats

New Poems

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A Lament

Emily Jane Pfeiffer

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A Postcard from the Volcano

Wallace Stevens

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A Scene At The Banks Of The Hudson

William Cullen Bryant

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After

Robert Browning

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After a hundred years

Emily Dickinson

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After-Thought

William Wordsworth

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After-Thought

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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All Things will Die

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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An Acre of Grass

William B. Yeats

New Poems

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An End

Christina Rossetti

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As those we love decay, we die in part

James Thomson

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At Melville's Tomb

Hart Crane

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Autobiography

William Soutar

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Ballades IV - Of Life

Andrew Lang

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Book 1, Ode XI: Tu ne quæsieris

Quintus Horace

Odes - Livre I

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Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son

Homère

L'iliade

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Book IV - Dear Pledges of my Love

Publius Virgile

L’ÉNÉIDE

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Book IV - Such were his Looks, so gracefully he spoke

Publius Virgile

L’ÉNÉIDE

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Buds and Babies

Christina Rossetti

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Canto I - Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most!

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Canto IV - But I have lived, and have not lived in vain

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Canto IV - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Consumption

William Cullen Bryant

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Credo

Arthur Symons

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Day That I Have Loved

Rupert Brooke

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De Morte

Francis Bacon

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Death

Helen Hunt Jackson

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Death-Watches

Christina Rossetti

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Dylan Thomas

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During Wind and Rain

Thomas Hardy

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Dust

William Soutar

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Dust

Rupert Brooke

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Dying (I heard a fly buzz when I died)

Emily Dickinson

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Earth's Immortalities

Robert Browning

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Fontinella to Florinda

Jonathan Swift

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Fragment

Rupert Brooke

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Fragment

Thomas Hardy

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Friends

William Henry Davies

The Collected Poems of William H. Davies

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Golden Silences

Christina Rossetti

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Hamatreya

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He Meditates On The Life Of A Rich Man

Isabella Augusta Gregory

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His Vision Of Death

Isabella Augusta Gregory

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I had no time to Hate

Emily Dickinson

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I've Thirty Months

John Millington Synge

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III - Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart !

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Imitated from the Japonese

William B. Yeats

New Poems

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In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’

Thomas Hardy

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Inscription For The Front Of The Pedestal Of A Lately Deceased Poet's Statue

James Henry

Poematia

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Lazy

James Weldon Johnson

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Let the Light Enter

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Life

James Weldon Johnson

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Low Tide

Unknown

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Man

William Henry Davies

The Collected Poems of William H. Davies

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