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Pages in category "Poems about death" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Silent Ship (Turkish: Sessiz Gemi) is one of the best-known and best-loved poems by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı. [1] [2] [3] It is a poem primarily about death, but also about the feelings of those who love but cannot be together, those who miss someone whom they have given up, and those who regret the absence of their loved ones.
Live life, and live it swift in every vein, Ye players! Let the vivid monuments fly! Your hurrying life hoards the enduring mood That steads the grown man’s pain When, like these dead, prepared to die, Ye hear the call with manhood’s even blood. That hour will come. The scattered clouds of war Growl on the swart horizon. Lust and Hate
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
The poem was set to music by Paul Kelly in his album Nature (2018). The titles of the novels They Shall Have Stars (1956) by James Blish and No Dominion (2006) by Charlie Huston are both taken from the poem. Mithu Sanyal quotes the poem at length in her novel Identitti (2022).
In later life, an accomplished children's author, she became the inspiration for many of Magee's poems. [4] Though his love was not returned, he remained friends with Elinor and her family. Magee visited the United States in 1939, staying with his mother and brothers in Martha's Vineyard .
The quotes from the World Trade Center site can be found in September Morning: Ten Years of Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City, compiled and edited by Sara Lukinson.
Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .