Vanity
22 poems
Everything passes, everything fades: poems about the vanity of human things, like the vanitas paintings.
Adam Posed
Anne Finch
All Things will Die
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ballades IV - Of Life
Andrew Lang
Canto I - And none did love him!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Dreams
Emma Lazarus
Epistle II
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man
Evanescence
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Fontinella to Florinda
Jonathan Swift
Hamatreya
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
Thomas Carew
Ode on the Spring
Thomas Gray
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Plato to Theon
Philip Freneau
Sonnet 23 - When every one to pleasing pastime hies
Mary Wroth
Sonnet 62
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 84
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet IX
Anna Seward
The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy
The Garden
Andrew Marvell
The lady's Dressing Room
Jonathan Swift
The Silver City
Marion Angus
The Vanity of Existence
Philip Freneau