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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CEMETERIES Matches Found: 355 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Where those green mounds o'erlook the mingling erne Last Line: What happy soul might choose that thought to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Variant Title(s): Under The Grass Subject(s): Cemeteries; Erne (river), Ireland; Graveyards A CEMETERY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies Last Line: Then ceased like these. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards A GENTLEMAN'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwelt in the shade of a city Last Line: Companion to me! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards A GERMANTOWN GRAVEYARD, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brightness of the golden-rod Last Line: And fell his pious tears. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards A GRACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For all the beryl, pearl and chrysoprase Last Line: Gloria tibi domine! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Stones; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks A GRAVEYARD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As beats the unrestful sea some ice-clad isle Last Line: The great voiced city's roar of fretful life. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Sea; Graveyards; Ocean A HYMN OF SLEEP, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Another day is dying Last Line: And are asleep on jesu's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Religion; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology A MOUNTAINGRAVEYARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a sleeping-place is here! Last Line: This still-shadowed burial ground. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Love; Mountains; Graveyards; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A PARSONAGE IN OXFORDSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends Last Line: To saints accorded in their mortal hour. Subject(s): Cemeteries A PLACE OF BURIAL IN THE SOUTH OF SCOTLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Part fenced by man, part by a rugged steep Last Line: With 'jubilate' from the choirs of spring! Subject(s): Cemeteries A POEM: DEDICATION OF THE PITTSFIELD CEMETARY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of death! Extend thy silent reign! Last Line: And a new morning brings eternal day! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD (NEW YORK), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where enormous shadows creep Last Line: He was john jones, son of john jones. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Graveyards; Death - Babies A WAY-SIDE GRAVE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our upland journey wound its way Last Line: Was golden glimmering with may. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crosses; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALBERTINE ASKS FOR A POEM, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dig good graves. No other spade Last Line: Graves I may dig, but not this one. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALBUQUERQUE GRAVEYARD, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would be easier Last Line: And turn for home Subject(s): Albuquerque, New Mexico; Cemeteries ALL SOULS DAY, by FERDINAND VON SAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild and wan, and chill Last Line: Anticipates his own. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Soul; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AN ARUNDEL TOMB, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Side by side, their faces blurred Subject(s): Cemeteries; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Bereavement AN INCIDENT AT PISA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the common burial-ground Last Line: In this angel-planted earth? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cemeteries; Pisa, Italy; Graveyards AN OLD BURYING GROUND, by ELFRIDA DE RENNE BARROW Poem Text First Line: Dust/ drifting hillward Last Line: Dust. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Dust; Graveyards ARUNDEL TOMB, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Side by side, their faces blurred Last Line: Our almost-instinct almost true: %what will survive of us is love Subject(s): Cemeteries; Love; Mourning AT HAWTHORNE'S GRAVE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can any famous marble whose broad shaft Last Line: Divulging, with her blossoms, who lies there. Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Graveyards AT HOME, IN THE NIGHT, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is full tonight Last Line: Off the well Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep sweetly in your humble graves Last Line: By mourning beauty crowned! Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves - Charleston;decoration Day At Charleston;magnolia Cemetery Ode;ode For Decoration Day;hymn For Memorial Day;ode On Decorating The Graves;magnolia Cemetery;lines;ode At Magnolia Cemetery;ode Sung At Magnolia Cemetery Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked where in their talking graves Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii; Graveyards; Second World War AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I walked where in their talking graves Last Line: Is the one gift you cannot give Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii AT THE CEMETERY, WALNUT GROVE PLANTATION, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1989, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the rocks / at walnut grove Last Line: Here lies / hear Subject(s): Americans; United States; African Americans; Slavery; Cemeteries; America AT THE GRAVE OF FERDINAND PESSOA OR THE TRIPLE TOMB, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: 1. Caeiro %do not shelter me like any day's all day Last Line: Then, the unique conclusion of dying (as if one existed, ever) to the %everyday Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Pessoa, Fernando (1888-1935) AT THE NOKDONG GRAVEYARD, by KIM KWANG-KYUN Poem Source First Line: Has he come this far only to be buried in the red clay? Last Line: Upon my tightened lips, %the chill rain drips incessantly Subject(s): Cemeteries AT THE STONE AGE TOMBS, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: An afternoon with the ancient dead on a ridge Last Line: In twos and threes, uneasy alone Subject(s): Cemeteries; Cold; Death; Graves; Solitude BAREFOOT MARCH, by MAJDA KNE Poem Source First Line: A small million words have been said about your Last Line: White swamp flowers. I grab this dark image of mine Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Marching And Marches; War BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BLESSED UNION, by DONNA DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Here is one beginning: white church, paint peeling Last Line: Something borrowed, and always, %always,something blue Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Memory BONAVENTURE (OLD CEMETERY AT SAVANNAH), by VIRGINIA CONNETT Poem Text First Line: Peace, peace and silence Last Line: Let them dream on -- peace -- peace. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards BOX OF ASHES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A box of ashes, which we scattered on Last Line: Ponder, father, why these green blades have grown: %a box of ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Parents BURIAL GROUNDS, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother always mourned the chcildlessness Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards BURIAL RITES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone comes back here to die Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The CALVIN COOLIDGE, 1872-1933: 3. HIS GRAVE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Back to the rock-ribbed mountains of vermont Last Line: His manhood, wearied, found its loved retreat. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933); Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CEMERETY IN PERNAMBUCO (OUR LADY OF THE NIGHT), by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: Nobody lies in this earth Last Line: Does not feel their intrusion Subject(s): Cemeteries CEMERETY IN PERNAMBUCO (ST. LAWRENCE OF THE WOODS), by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: This is a marine cemetery Last Line: Are less crosses than masts %already half shipwrecked Subject(s): Cemeteries CEMETERY, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cemeteries CEMETERY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: When we were smaller, silk ladies Last Line: Like granite sunk into the untended %green grass of their eyes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grandparents; Graves; Revolutions; Youth CEMETERY, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: White geese roam the meadow, Last Line: (green grow the rushes ho) Subject(s): Cemeteries; Funerals; Nature CEMETERY AT ACADEMY, CALIFORNIA, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came here with a young girl Last Line: Headlights, that in time one comes %to be a stranger to nothing Subject(s): Cemeteries CEMETERY AT GUFIDAUN, by LAWRENCE SAIL Poem Source First Line: The years flow in and out of the trees Last Line: The same slow mulch as the sea Subject(s): Cemeteries CEMETERY IN DOLNI DOBROUC, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: Over the stone wall, an old man Last Line: Among my people, %nameless, %ashes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Czechoslovakia CEMETERY IN PUNTA ARENAS, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Not even death could make these men alike Last Line: The tablecloths laid out, for his sons and grandsons Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves CEMETERY ISLAND, by JOHN DRURY Poem Source First Line: Still rocking from the vaporetto ride Last Line: And sparrows comment with their quietest calls Subject(s): Cemeteries; Islands CEMETERY OF CHILDHOOD, by JOAQUIM CARDOZO Poem Source First Line: In the cemetery of childhood Last Line: Cattle graze the levels %of the vast common plain Subject(s): Cemeteries CEMETERY ROAD, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one's been buried here for years Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards CEMETERY ROAD, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one's been buried here for years Last Line: Though perhaps what lies before you %can't be called that Subject(s): Cemeteries CEMETRY OF THE SMOLENSKI CHURCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They gather, with the summer in their hands Last Line: The future has its hope, the past its deep affection. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cemeteries; Russia; Smolensk, Russia; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians CHAPEL WITH SKULLS: CZERMNA, POLAND, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Not even the mass graves at katyn Last Line: In the heart of europe, they can't seem to forget Subject(s): Cemeteries; Poland CHINESE CEMETARY AT VICTORIA, by GLENN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Alien as well as desolate, this place Last Line: As pale as incense by a temple door. Subject(s): Cemeteries; China; Graveyards CHRISTMAS EVE AT ROSEMOUND CEMETERY, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And on the graves the poinsettias Subject(s): Cemeteries; Christmas; Graveyards; Nativity, The CITY CEMETERY (WRITTEN IN GLASGOW), by LUIS CERNUDA Poem Source First Line: There are open railings and walls Last Line: For even god may be forgetting you Subject(s): Cemeteries; Glasgow, Scotland; Scottish Translations CONVENT CEMETERY: MOUNT CARMEL, by MARY SAINT VIRGINIA Poem Text First Line: Twilight: and pine trees keep the blessed enclosure Last Line: Night will be good; and morning will be better. Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia Subject(s): Cemeteries; Convents; Graveyards COOL TOMBS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When abraham lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads Last Line: The dust ... In the cool tombs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEAD, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: It seemed as if voices were raised Last Line: And branches lifting the stars Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves DEAD SOLDIERS' AUTUMN, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The leaves are falling now Last Line: The day when we could die for it is done Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Rest; Soldiers DEAD THINGS, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: Rain lapped at the stones Last Line: The decaying faces of dead years Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven DEATH, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: From the bones of animals Last Line: Pomona %naked and laughing Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Statues DEATH AND BURIAL OF LORD TENNYSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone Last Line: And his name in gold letters written thereon! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Memory; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Last Line: Especially when they fight, and when they sing Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women DEATH IN CHINA, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER Poem Source First Line: Is part of life Last Line: Have always gone Subject(s): Beijing, China; Cemeteries; China DEATH IS BEHIND US, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: Because I am frozen in father Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mortality DEATH; MATER NOSTRA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is the kiss of motherhood. Why fear Last Line: Come, gather godhead from my nearer eyes. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DECORATION DAY--1899, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the cemetery to-day Last Line: "neath the old ""red, white and blue." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The DELUSION OF SAINTS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old pagan burials, uninscribed rock Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards DELUSION OF SAINTS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old pagan burials, uninscribed rock Last Line: One old horse neighing across the stone hedges %in the flooded fields Subject(s): Cemeteries DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: CEMETERY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: This tiny village of dead people has stayed on Last Line: Life that is highst and deepest in the abandoned city Subject(s): Abandonment; Cemeteries; Death; Diaries DING DONG! DING DONG!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How sad and sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Death; Love; Cemeteries DISTICHS, by ROBERT REDFIELD JR. Poem Text First Line: Behind the hills the moon has sheathed his Last Line: And ride the horses of delight across the buried years. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DOMESTICITY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it knowledge, is it knowledge only and fear Last Line: Having no house to inhabit but this of our dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DOVECOTT MILL: 8. THE COUNTRY GRAVE-YARD, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So she goes sometimes past dovecote mill Last Line: The charm and the glory of life's young years! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards DUE TO BEING OPPOSITE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seemed a litter was a family Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Cemeteries; Birth; Life; Dead, The; Graveyards; Child Birth; Midwifery DUST TO DUST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dust to dust!' cries out an ancient church Last Line: And lo! From every tomb the stone is rolled. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Dust; Funerals; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Graveyards; Dead, The ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Last Line: It was my love that did us both to death Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Daughters ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Last Line: The bosom of his father and his god. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Courage; Death; England; Faith; Graves; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ENVOI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Here lies a wretch, arterially ill Last Line: Now still he sits in sight of southern tides. Subject(s): Cemeteries; London; Memory; Graveyards EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This spot is the sweetest I've seen in my life Last Line: For it raises my flowers and covers my wife Subject(s): Cemeteries;epitaphs; Graveyards EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day EPITAPH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Only god exists. Spirits are a phantom Last Line: Always. Get up now. You've pledged yourself and awakened impossible menu Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Epitaphs EPITHALAMIUM AT ST. MICHAEL'S CEMETERY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father lay fifty years in st. Michael's bed Last Line: He sets his bounds by. Or that simply is Subject(s): Cemeteries; Fathers ESTATE SALE: THE SCRABBLE GAME OF A DEAD WOMAN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crowd of strangers flies over your life Last Line: To stand on. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Wings; Graveyards; Dead, The ETSI OMNES, EGO NON, by ERNEST MYERS Poem Text First Line: Here where under earth his head Last Line: Etsi omnes, ego non. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards EUMARES, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones FATHER'S BOUQUET, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: My dad not only Last Line: Throw away Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers; Flowers; Graves FELDMESTEN OR MEASURING THE GRAVES, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hill and glade, the flowers fade Last Line: "when will we weave it threads of song?" Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jews; Mourning; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Bereavement FICHTE'S GRAVE; DOROTHEENSTADT CEMEMTERY, BERLIN, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests a pilgrim at his journey's end Last Line: The power to cleanse, illumine, and inspire. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814); Graves; Heaven; Rest; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise FOREST LAWN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like an amusement park, the cemetery grounds Last Line: Is death and reproduction. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Imitation; Graveyards; Dead, The FORT HILL CEMETERY, 1991, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Our plot's a bargain: six feet of earth with ocean view Last Line: With steady beats above the illimitable sea Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships FROM A DAYBOOK, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The musk of the cemetery Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The FROM A DISTANCE THE TOMBSTONES LOOK LIKE A FLOCK OF STORKS, by RONNY SOMECK Poem Source Last Line: I was the only one who knew about this, %now I'm the one who can remember it Subject(s): Cemeteries; Israel; Memory GENERAL CEMETERY, by GARY GEDDES Poem Source First Line: Between the wrought-iron crosses of the disappeared Last Line: Into the silent, unassuming earth Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Disappeared Persons; Human Rights GIVE ME FLOWERS NOW, by NETTA LINDSEY Poem Text First Line: Why must you wait to bring flowers to me Last Line: Nor a costly monument placed at my head. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Love; Sympathy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Empathy GOD'S ACRE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like that ancient saxon phrase which calls Last Line: This is the place where human harvests grow! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: HOME TO FARGO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortals live by mutual interchange Last Line: Drive to the next time zone. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Fargo, North Dakota; Mothers & Daughters; Graveyards GRACELAND, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomb of a millionaire Last Line: Home town or the name people call her.) Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards GRACELAND CEMETERY, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drivers on cold rainy Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Albany, New York; Cemeteries GRASS, by PAUL EDWARD CORLETT Poem Text First Line: I walked among the cathedrals Last Line: Is very kind! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grass; Graveyards GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grass; War; Graveyards; Dead, The GRAVEDIGGERS' APRIL, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: In winter we comfort our dead with talk Last Line: Into the flowring cemetery, %then we can mourn Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mourning GRAVES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both of us had been close Last Line: All the time. ... Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; God; Graves; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology GRAVES OF INFANTS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infants' gravemounds are steps of angels, where Subject(s): Cemeteries GRAVESTONE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the churchyard dig his grave Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Cemeteries GRAVEYARD, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Silent, swaying oaks, silently spoke to me Last Line: The headstones stood mute - - for they too felt sorry for me Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Cemeteries GRAVEYARD, by NO CHUN-MYUNG Poem Source First Line: Leaves were about to turn red Last Line: Wooden grave signs are scattered %like mournful notes Subject(s): Cemeteries GRAVEYARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The graveyard - who makes his home in that land? Last Line: Man's life allows not a moment of lingering Subject(s): Cemeteries GRAVEYARD AT HURD'S GULCH, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His grave is strewn with litter again Last Line: Just before the terrible hunger returns. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Loss; Love; Graveyards; Dead, The GRAVEYARD IN QUEENS, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We hesitate along Last Line: The slow pride %of a lament Subject(s): Cemeteries; Queens, New York City GRAVEYARD ON THE HILL, by GENOA MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Perhaps now in their solitude since night has come Last Line: Blue morning-glories twining in the corn. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards GRAVEYARD SQUARE, by WILLARD R. ESPY Poem Source First Line: None recalls that I am there Last Line: On the hill in graveyard square Subject(s): Cemeteries GREENWOOD CEMETERY, by CRAMMOND KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: How calm they sleep beneath the shade Last Line: And heavenly light! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The GUARDIAN, by PEPITA CROUNSE Poem Text First Line: Within this valley of eternal sleep Last Line: Where spirit enters immortality. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grief; Immortality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HAWORTH CHURCHYARD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, under loughrigg, the stream Last Line: Break your united repose. Subject(s): Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Cemeteries; Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876); Quillinan, Edward (d. 1851); Graveyards HAWTHORNE'S GRAVE, by FRANK DEXTER MASON Poem Text First Line: Tall pines like sentinels by night and day Last Line: "long have we watched; when will the sleeper rise?" Subject(s): Cemeteries; Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Graveyards HEPHZIBAH CEMETERY, APRIL 1889, by CODY WALKER Poem Source First Line: Hephzibah means my delight is in thee Last Line: Wrecked, moored in georgia- %caleb Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death; Graves HIS LADY'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the gardens, all through may, the rose Last Line: That dead, as living, she may be with roses. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones HOLDEN CHURCH AND CEMETERY (KENYON, MINNESOTA), by GERTRUDE HANSON Poem Text First Line: Today my feet have walked on sacred sod Last Line: The heritage they left has timeless worth. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Churches; Pioneers; Graveyards; Cathedrals HOLDING SHED, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Somewhere, along the mississippi, outside natchez Last Line: On the river; I walk away, then stop and turn, %the tumult settles, and the field breaks like the se Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Mississippi HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE CONSECRATION OF SWAN POINT CEMETERY, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the faith of him who saw Last Line: Like angels by the tomb. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE DEDICATION OF A CEMETERY, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the river's dark green flow Last Line: The beauty of their rest. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards I JUST FOUND MY COUNTRY, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: I just found my country Last Line: Can only extend to others Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Soldiers' Writings I SEE AROUND ME TOMBSTONES GREY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The IF I SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With my granite lip! Subject(s): Cemeteries IN A BRETON CEMETERY, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sleep well here Last Line: Beckon me to their lands Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards IN A BURYING GROUND, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the spot where I will lie Last Line: "the myrtle flowers will grow more blue." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards IN A COUNTRY CEMETERY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been reading tombstones and drinking in Last Line: Before it was too late Subject(s): Cemeteries; Drinks & Drinking; Graveyards; Wine IN A COUNTRY CEMETERY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been reading tombstones and drinking in Last Line: Important to her, because it was getting late, %before it was too late Subject(s): Cemeteries; Drinks And Drinking IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is a quicksand; yon square tower Last Line: Thy tiny skull? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Cemeteries; Churchyards; Graveyards IN A GRAVE-YARD, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In calm fellowship they sleep Last Line: Dark of night, and light of sun. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards IN A GRAVEYARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dewy depths of the graveyard Last Line: As sunlight on the dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards IN A SWEDISH GRAVEYARD, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After wearisome toil and much sorrow Last Line: Utter darkness and sleep may be best. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Sweden; Graveyards IN AN OLD CEMETERY, by LILLAH A. ASHLEY Poem Text First Line: A tree with feathery blossoms by the wall Last Line: Are gay with little bells swung to and fro. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards IN CLONMEL PARISH CHURCHYARD; AT THE GRAVE OF CHARLES WOLFE, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the graves were many, we looked for one Last Line: In the churchyard of clonmel? Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah Subject(s): Cemeteries; Clonmel, Ireland; Graveyards IN COUNTRY GRAVEYARDS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the old. The unremembered dead Last Line: Wept by the sky! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards IN FLUSHING CEMETERY, by STEPHEN STEPANCHEV Poem Source First Line: It's a cemetery of tall, murmuring trees Last Line: Where a boy throws a ball to a girl, and she catches it Subject(s): Cemeteries IN KERRY, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We heard the thrushes by the shore and sea Last Line: Had built this stack of thigh-bones, jaws and shins. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IN MEMORIAM, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: His name was Last Line: Still know %that he lived Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory IN NARRAGANSETT CHURCHYARD, by ESTHER VERNON CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: A lonely slope of fairest green Last Line: "manhood and womanhood were ours." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; Graveyards IN NUNHEAD CEMETERY, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the clay that makes the earth stick to his spade Last Line: If he would dig it all up again they would not die Subject(s): Cemeteries IN PERE LA CHAISE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An avenue of tombs! I stand before %the tomb of abelard and eloise Last Line: And yet I turn one more from all of these, %and stand before the tomb of eloise Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Abelard, Peter (1079-1144); Cemeteries; Philosophy And Philosophers IN THE CEMETERY, STUDYING EMBRYOS, by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE Poem Source First Line: The dead around here Last Line: Translucent and budding, curl up Subject(s): Cemeteries IN THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it beside me, who is here beside me, in the hollow hill? Last Line: Blessed is the night that has no glowworm Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Cemeteries; Graveyards IN THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it beside me, who is here beside me, in the hollow hill? Last Line: For probably all the same things will be born and be beautiful again, but blessed is the night that Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Cemeteries IN THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN QUEENS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stone's throw from my uncle's grave Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Graveyards; Judaism IN THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN QUEENS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stone's throw from my uncle's grave Last Line: On my father's fresh stone, I leave a stone Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews IN THE LODI GARDENS, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black, pensive, dense Last Line: Into the unanimous blue Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Cemeteries; Birds IN THE OLD GRAVEYARD, PRINCETON, by FRANCIS CHARLES MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: Now to this quiet place the living come Last Line: "leave us at greater distance every day . . ." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Princeton, New Jersey; Graveyards IN THE OLD JEWISH CEMETERY, PRAGUE, 1970, by EDWARD LOWBURY Poem Source First Line: The headstones, like a petrified congregation Last Line: In tune with the sentence that confines %gentile and jew to the ghetto of this world Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Prague, Czech Republic INDIFFERENCE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird, a wild-flower and a tree Last Line: I cherish them; they suffer me! Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE CAT'S CEMETERY AT BUBASTIS IN LOWER EGYPT: 2., by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: She who paced beneath the royal lintels Last Line: Again together, with naked feet stalking %upon the floor of time Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Cemeteries; Egypt ISLAND IN THE LIGHT, by SARA DE IBANEZ Poem Source First Line: The dove burned in its whiteness Last Line: Also a place for my lifeless eyes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a low wall, falling away Subject(s): Jews; Cemeteries; Italy; Judaism; Graveyards; Italians JOHANNES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Who opens the nose of the compost? Pranajama Last Line: Where bobrowski used to rest Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Funerals; Graves JUST ANOTHER PARADIGM SHIFT, by PAUL GRANT Poem Source First Line: Just a shadow. Hardly that. But audible Last Line: Back down into the woods, whispering %once upon a time Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Shadows KAISARIANI CEMETERY IN OCTOBER [OUTSIDE ATHENS], by DEAN KOSTOS Poem Source First Line: Vertical shimmer! Last Line: Floating free of the frame %of the case of all that's named and farther Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death LA VERBENA CEMETERY, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: In guatemala city %the dead are buried Last Line: And the ashes of the departed %mix with the factory waste Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Guatemala; Travel LIKE DECORATIONS IN A NIGGER CEMETERY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the far south the sun of autum is passing Subject(s): African Americans; Cemeteries; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Graveyards; South (u.s.) LIKE DECORATIONS IN A NIGGER CEMETERY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the far south the sun of autum is passing Last Line: One of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? %but the wise man avenges by building his city in snow Subject(s): African Americans; Cemeteries; Southern States LINES WRITTEN IN A LONELY BURIAL GROUNDS ON NORTHEN COAST OF HIGHLANDS, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How mournfully this burial-ground Last Line: Down -- down a thousand fathoms deep Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Cemeteries; Sea; Graveyards; Ocean LUMBER WAGONS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The lumber wagons are already there Last Line: On the road to pueblo nuevo Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grief MARY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The house is changed where mary lived Last Line: But dwells with us to-day. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Mortality; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MATINS, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: We walked round shrubbery, cowled in silence Last Line: Stayed in my tiny group, going round and round Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves MEDITATIONS IN A CEMETERY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, / grandiosely hackneyed subject Subject(s): Death; Cemeteries; Dead, The; Graveyards MEMORIAL GARDENS, QUEENS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this tenement Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards MEMORY, by MICHAEL MCIRVIN Poem Source First Line: The way this leaps Last Line: Smiling as if from beyond the grave Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory MIKLOS RADNOTI, by HAYAN CHARARA Poem Source First Line: Corpse #12 at the unmarked grave Last Line: This was cleaned and dried in the sun Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death MILAN AUGUST 1943, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: In vain you search in the dust Last Line: The city is dead. Dead Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death MONTJUICH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill of jews, says one, Subject(s): Mountains; Barcelona, Spain; Cemeteries; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Graveyards MONUMENT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Today the ants are busy Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards MONUMENTAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have ceased to rant and rave, and Last Line: Silent sea, a three-foot slab of slippery elm is plenty good enough for me. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Monuments; Stones; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks MORE THAN PEACE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: More than peace %or joy Last Line: Go back to my %forests Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Peace; Rest MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, by JANE REBECCA THOMAS Poem Text First Line: The grave is clad in beauty! Nature's hand Last Line: When from its gloom a conqueror he rose. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cemeteries; Graveyards MY FATHER, by HELEN WOLFE DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Even as I used to rumple his gray hair Last Line: We know that fathers never really die. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards MY SOUTH: 2. AT THE CEMETRY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the fence-flowers, like a bloody thumb Variant Title(s): Variations On Southern Themes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards MY SOUTH: 2. AT THE CEMETRY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the fence-flowers, like a bloody thumb Last Line: Somewhere among the purpling wild verbena Variant Title(s): Variations On Southern Theme Subject(s): Cemeteries NATHAN HALE, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere beneath the thundering city's pave Last Line: His solemn and triumphant requiem Subject(s): Cemeteries; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); New York City; Graveyards; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW ENGLAND GRAVEYARD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: As a pale cypher set among the weeds Last Line: "dear husband"", ""virtuous wife"", ""son lost at sea""." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Widows & Widowers; Graveyards; Dead, The NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: CAMPOSANTO, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: To honor this, our holy ground Last Line: When ripe, %--renders tolerable preserves Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LA ENTRADA, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: You've come back, ascending on your mountain bike Last Line: None can abandon trope who enter here Subject(s): Cemeteries NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LA MUERTE, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: Few men would think on passing through our gate Last Line: All men must marry the holy other Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Marriage NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LA VIDA, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: Who doesn't want deeds that outlast the pale Last Line: Plucked up, flesh-warm, strong strokes, and out of sight Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LAS ANIMAS, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: Why me? Last Line: Across the graves where our old grammar snores Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LAS CRUCES, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: The young ones are blond with plastic placards Last Line: Each day's sameness blurs even thier names Subject(s): Cemeteries; Names NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LAS PIEDRAS, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: Here cairns of pumice, there a plaster lamb Last Line: The human need to commemorate its bones? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LOS ANGELES, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: Don't look for us in concrete form Last Line: We thrum: %no end's our only plan! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Los Angeles NEXT TO A GRAVESTONE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Must we drink? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cemeteries; Nature NO TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rush this weekday morning Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Death; Parents; Graveyards; Relatives; Dead, The; Parenthood NORTHERN GRAVEYARDS, by AMELIA BEERS WARNOCK GARVIN Poem Text First Line: Stony fields and lonely roads Last Line: "we are glad to stay." Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Katherine Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards NOT JUST ANY DEATH, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But the kind that comes to the lonely %like a reunion Last Line: Who entered death with anticipation Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Solitude NUMBER ONE MAN ON THE SIT-DOWN POWER MOWERS AT LAKEWOOD CEMETERY, by KEITH GUNDERSON Poem Source First Line: And mckinley was number one man on the sit-down power mowers at Last Line: Toes compared to mckinley Subject(s): Cemeteries; Mckinley, William (1843-1901) NUTHATCH SITTING ON A BEAR'S NOSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Really just a small cast iron representation Subject(s): Cemeteries; Statues; Graveyards OCEAN VIEW CEMETERY, by SEAN MAC FALLS Poem Source First Line: Who said cemeteries are for the dead Last Line: Opens at sunrise - %closes at sunset Subject(s): Cemeteries OCTOBER GRAVEYARD, by CAROLINE CROSBY WILSON Poem Text First Line: Here, where the decorous corpses lay Last Line: Where ashen leaves descend and drift. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Row after row with strict impunity Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Row after row with strict impunity Last Line: Riots with his tongue through the hush- %sentinel of the grave who counts us all! Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History OIL, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Imagine all the dinosaurs underground that turned into oil. How long does Last Line: When a car drives into the cemetery, will a bell ring Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, is it well with thee? Over thy grave Last Line: His love the fire that will consume and save? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A DEAD SWALLOW, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Here you are, grounded in road gravel Last Line: To raise up gloriously from your bones Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves ON A NATURAL MONUMENT IN A FIELD OF GEORGIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No trophy this - a stone unhewn Last Line: This healing sleep alone was sure. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; U.s. - History; Graveyards ON ETHNIC DEFINITIONS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON FIRST OPENING THE LYRIC YEAR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a certain satisfaction to overlook a cemetery Last Line: But for myself somehow this does not satisfy. Subject(s): Individuality; Cemeteries ON HIS CHOICE OF A GRAVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caves, and streames that downward slyde Last Line: Sprynge is faire. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The ON THE BURIAL OF A FRIEND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They gave him to the earth one horrible afternoon Last Line: Definitively, %sleep a true and tranquil dream' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals ON THE DEAD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou in this wide cold church art laid Last Line: Death follows with uplifted dart. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Consolation; Death - Children; Graveyards; Death - Babies ONLY JOE, by JAMES ROANN REED Poem Text First Line: This grave were ye meanin,' stranger? Last Line: That a body could never do that, as were simple and dazed, like joe! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Legends; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ORDER OF THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead in other lands are settled Last Line: They went away with a sign of great wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Funerals OUR DEAD, OVERSEAS, by EDWARD ARCHIBALD MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: In italy, in belgium, in france Last Line: Something that swings the spirit to a star. Alternate Author Name(s): Markham, E. A. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; World War I - United States; Graveyards; Dead, The OUR HOME IS IN THE ROCKS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breasted, beginning his lectures Last Line: So still in your hand, breathless, with %dulling eyes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Egypt PANTOUM: AT MOUNT HEBRON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: This cemetery is no haven Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Sons; Grief; Jews; Mourning PAPERMILL GRAVEYARD, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: In that country of thresholds we move like vandals Last Line: Works in the wafer's paste, hardens the knife's edge, and delivers %our unhaunted world to the princ Subject(s): Cemeteries; Vermont PAURA NON E NELLA CARITA, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The place, a tuscan churchyard, and the time Last Line: And smile to hear the fatal words she saith! Subject(s): Autumn; Cemeteries; Death; Messages & Messengers; Seasons; Tuscany, Italy; Fall; Graveyards; Dead, The PILGRIMAGE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Together we pass by. Sleep Last Line: Together, we pass by the purple %mustards of a cemetery Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Travel PIONEER GRAVEYARD, by BLANCHE KENDALL MCKEY Poem Text First Line: The path is over-grown with crumpled leaves Last Line: In death each soul becomes a pioneer! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Pioneers; Graveyards PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: Plow cemetery, downhill from the church Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming; Graveyards; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: My life in time will seal shut like a scar Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the american graveyard, for my birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Cemeteries; Graveyards POETIC EPIGRAMS: 21. A WIDOW IN A CEMETERY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely twilit thing Last Line: The sun has taken wing Subject(s): Cemeteries; Widows & Widowers; Graveyards POETIC EPIGRAMS: 7. IN A CEMETERY AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ghost-dreams that rise Last Line: Or only the fire-flies? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Dreams; Graves; Night; Graveyards; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime POTTER'S FIELD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas purchased with his blood, this holy ground Last Line: In all the world whereon to lay his head. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Cemeteries; Religion; Graveyards; Theology PRAIRIE GRAVEYARD, by ANNE MARRIOTT Poem Text First Line: Wind mutters thinly on the sagging wire Last Line: In the centre of the huge lone land and sky. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Prairies; Graveyards; Plains QUEENS CEMETERY, SETTING SUN, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Airport bus from jfk Subject(s): Cemeteries; New York City; Graveyards; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple READING THE HEADLINES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a burial ground in me where I place the bodies Last Line: I know my direction and have companions, after all Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow below the hill vaults Last Line: Bury the truth these angels stand on: born and died. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; Death; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Spiritual Life; Graveyards; Confederacy; Dead, The; South (u.s.) RIVER OF SCLEROSIS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stand near the confluence of two tame gods Last Line: With reflection, accept what sins we pour Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Grief ROAD OF THE DEAD: 1, by RAUL NINO Poem Source First Line: Gazing at the craftsmanship of mortar, skillfully silence is held through Last Line: The moon and sun just ahead, patient for my crimson love Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Silence ROCK COUNTRY, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the dead far outnumber the living Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Oxford County, Maine; Cemeteries; Heritage; Heredity; Graveyards ROCKPLANT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Wherever you see me Last Line: I bear life, %and I am Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Stones RONSARD'S GRAVE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wells, ye founts that fall Last Line: There sappho sings. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Prayer; Ronsard, Pierre De (1524-1585); Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise ROOMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing on earth more lonely than a room Last Line: And knows that room is life, will pass unmoved through death. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ROSE HILL CEMETERY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: This happened in a town almost entirely without doughnuts. One of the first Last Line: But it was too late. We knew the taste before we licked the hole we were about to fill Subject(s): Cemeteries; Doughnuts; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships RUN DOWN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grim dead end he lies, with passionless filmy / eyes Last Line: To a shift beyond the skies. Subject(s): Accidents; Cemeteries; Death; Fire; Graves; Tragedy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your nurse could only speak italian, Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Sailing Home From Rapallo Subject(s): Italy; Mothers; Death; Sea Voyages; Cemeteries; Fathers; Italians; Dead, The; Graveyards SAINT MARY OF THE FLOWERS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meet me at saint mary of the flowers Last Line: Meet me at saint mary of the flowers'. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Love; Saints; Graveyards; Dead, The SAM PERRY (A GENIUS UNRECORDED), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by a grave and white grave-stone Last Line: "and tell what you do, and where you are!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Science; Youth; Graveyards; Dead, The; Scientists SANCTUM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On top of a hill near the lebanese border Last Line: And trust it to bear our weight %a little longer Subject(s): Arabs; Cemeteries; Cities; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors SANDWEILER AND HAMM, THE MILITARY CEMETERIES, by WAYNE KVAM Poem Source First Line: Hamm is a permanent dress parade Subject(s): Cemeteries SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE. 6. IN THE CEMETERY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see those mothers squabbling there? Last Line: As anything else, to ease your pain!' Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SECRET GRAVEYARD, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elephants like burlap underwear. It wears better than silk Last Line: They remember to murmur brief prayers as they leave Variant Title(s): The Secret Graveyard Of Elephant Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Cemeteries SEVASTOPOL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dead is a syrian sky Last Line: "and sighs above them, ""alas for glory!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The English Cemetery At Sevastopol Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 6, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is all of this / sorrow? I don't know Last Line: Or where it comes from Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; Cemeteries; Israel; Patriotism; Grief; Arab-israeli Conflict SHELLEY AND TRELAWNEY, by JULIA COOLEY ALTROCCHI Poem Text First Line: Beyond the walls of rome Last Line: Trelawney, the corsair! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Trelawney, Edward John (1792-1881); Graveyards SIBERIAN GRAVEYARD, by PATRICK FRIESEN Poem Source First Line: Bleached whale bones and thistles a schooner's broken mast bog grass Last Line: There's nowhere to go we live here among these crosses useless and tired %of tears Subject(s): Cemeteries; Siberia SILVER STREET, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, if you will, your fancy may destroy Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SILVER STREET, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, if you will, your fancy may destroy Last Line: One has to walk up wood street from cheapside Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves SINERA CEMETERY: 10, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: The arranger of rows Last Line: Of docile to the mountains Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Graves SINERA CEMETERY: 11, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: The light dies away, its Last Line: It will be a new day Subject(s): Cemeteries SINERA CEMETERY: 14, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Crystal, memory Last Line: With pauses of gold and dreaming Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory SINERA CEMETERY: 2, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: What a tiny land Last Line: That are gone forever Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory SINERA CEMETERY: 25, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: By the sea I had Last Line: A house, a slow dream Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Peace; Silence SINERA CEMETERY: 27, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Dream, meaning, concrete Last Line: Beneath dust and shadow Subject(s): Cemeteries; Peace; Rest SINERA CEMETERY: 3, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Without name or symbol Last Line: Through slow twilights Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death SINERA CEMETERY: 6, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Spiders spun Last Line: Of cypresses Subject(s): Cemeteries SINERA CEMETERY: 9, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Flight of memories of rain Last Line: Into fleeting mirrors Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory SIR TURLOUGH, OR THE CHURCHYARD BRIDE, by WILLIAM CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bride she bound her golden hair Last Line: By the bonnie green woods of killeevy. Variant Title(s): Killeevy Subject(s): Cemeteries; Killeevy, Ireland; Graveyards SIX CHINA PIGS IN AN ARKANSAS CEMETERY, by IRENE CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: Walking together when the leaves are red Last Line: Bespectacled and comic, on the loam. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SIX WINTERS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the black hotel a child is asleep Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; War; Graveyards; Dead, The SIX WINTERS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the black hotel a child is asleep Last Line: On the way home. Bewitched avenue Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; War SNOW, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: There has been snow on fresh-turned graves Last Line: The long night through. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Mourning; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement SOLDIER'S REST, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead grow more intractable every day Last Line: They are the majority! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heroism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) SOLDIERS' GRAVES, by IMRE ORAVECZ Poem Source First Line: Ever since I can remember Last Line: That the cemetery had to be enlarged once again Subject(s): Cemeteries SOLILOQUY, by JOSEPH B. STRAUSS Poem Text First Line: Head stones, head stones / vast-kingdom-of-the-dead stones Last Line: Waiting, ever waiting. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SONG, by DULCE MARIA BORRERO Poem Source First Line: My heart is a corpse Last Line: Flowers ever anew! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory SONNET IN A CEMETERY, by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where live oaks brooded low against a wall Last Line: Whose message read, the old days were the best. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SORROW'S MADNESS, by YAKOV POLONSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, clinging to your lidded coffin Last Line: To death's void galley chained like sullen slaves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOUND SEED, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: We hear of death Last Line: And for this fact no hands can dig a grave. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy soul shall find itself alone Last Line: A mystery of mysteries! -- Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BARNEY HAINSFEATHER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the excursion train to peoria Last Line: But to be buried here -- ach! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Graveyards; Judaism SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EPILOGUE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A game of checkers? Last Line: Infinite life. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE HILL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are elmer, herman, bert, tom, and charley Last Line: One time at springfield. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The SPRING (2), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the green-kindling hawthorn hill Last Line: Girdled the glad white-flowering hill. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Temples; Graveyards; Mosques STOPPING AT THE CEMETERY ON VALENTINE'S DAY, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: The lambs and doves were still Last Line: He was smiling as if to say, have fun %and luck will be your friend Subject(s): Cemeteries; Holidays; Valentine's Day THE ALBUQUERQUE GRAVEYARD, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would be easier Last Line: "abruptly drop my wilted flowers, Subject(s): Albuquerque, New Mexico; Cemeteries; Graveyards THE ANZACS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: No straws weighed they of the right or wrong Last Line: And shrines in her heart the dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heaven; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The; Paradise THE BIRD'S RELEASE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth! For she is gone! Last Line: But it wins her back no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Cemeteries; India; Graveyards THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys THE BURYING-GROUND, by NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where are they whose all that earth could give Last Line: Deep in my stricken heart, and shrine them only there. Subject(s): Cemeteries; New Haven, Connecticut; Graveyards THE CEMETERY AT ACADEMY, CALIFORNIA, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came here with a young girl Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE CEMETERY BY THE SEA, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tranquil roof, with walking pigeons, loom Last Line: This tranquil roof where jib-sails peck in flocks! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Life Choices; Religion; Passion THE CHURCHYARD ON THE SANDS, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love lies in the gates of foam Last Line: Until I rest by thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Cemeteries; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards THE COAL STRIKE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Red are the rails with rust to-day Last Line: Who went to heaven—starved. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Heaven; Hunger; Poverty; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Paradise THE COUNTRY GRAVEYARD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Close beside the winding highway Last Line: Of god's home beyond the skies. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Country Life; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The THE ENGLISH GRAVEYARD IN MALACCA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Downhill from the roofless portuguese cathedral Last Line: Of the tree that spreads its shade across their clay. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Malaysia; Missions & Missionaries; Graveyards THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE EX-PROVOST ROUGH, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on the 19th of november Last Line: Declaring that the late ex-provost rough couldn't be equalled in great britain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials THE GARDEN VIGIL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep silence of the garden-bowers Last Line: May in thy flame adore his hidden face. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Rest; Silence; Graveyards; Dead, The THE GATE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gate is ajar in the iron-barred fence so she goes in Last Line: Caught under circling fingers. Like something about to break Subject(s): Cemeteries THE GIFT OF INDIA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there aught you need that my hands withhold Last Line: Remember the blood of thy martyred sons! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GILMAN HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The meeting-house is but a dream Last Line: The door that led to heaven. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE GRAVE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept by your grave last night Last Line: I had dreamed that I slept with you dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE DIGGER, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A grim old man with a weazened visage Last Line: Chuckles the sexton, digging graves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Labor & Laborers; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Work; Workers THE GRAVE-YARD, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning on the sunny sod Last Line: When, rising, he returned to god. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE GRAVE-YARD, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart grows sick before the wide-spread death Last Line: For in the body's health the soul's forgot. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE GRAVE-YARD AT SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Come to this spot among the rocks and pines Last Line: To call her crying children to her breast. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They grew in beauty, side by side Last Line: And naught beyond, o earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cemeteries; Women; Graveyards THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD; A DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when should we visit the graves of the dead Last Line: Like the clouds from heaven, away we pass! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Grief; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GRAVEYARD AT WEST POINT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this sweet sabbath morning, let us wander Last Line: Until the end of all! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; United States - Military Academy; Graveyards; Dead, The THE HILL ABOVE THE MINE, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody comes to the graveyard on the hill Last Line: Your white bones drifting like herons across the moon. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Labor & Laborers; Graveyards; Work; Workers THE INDIAN BURYING GROUND, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spite of all the learned have said Last Line: To shadows and delusions here. Subject(s): Americans; Cemeteries; Native Americans; United States; Graveyards; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it seems! These hebrews in their graves Last Line: And the dead nations never rise again. Subject(s): Bible; Cemeteries; Jews; Newport, Rhode Island; Religion; Social Protest; Graveyards; Judaism; Theology THE JEWS' CEMETERY ON THE LIDO, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tract of land swept by the salt seafoam Last Line: Wept by no mourner but the moaning wave. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Jews; Lido (island), Italy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Judaism THE MAUSOLEUM OF HUMAYAN, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the debate of wasps Last Line: Silence's architecture Subject(s): Cemeteries THE MEADOW, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the road from where we nap Subject(s): War; Death; Cemeteries; Dead, The; Graveyards THE MOUNTAIN GRAVEYARD, by DUBOSE HEYWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on the mountain where the storm-heads are Last Line: And carry beauty with them when they die. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE OLD BURYING GROUND, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plumed ranks of tall wild-cherry Last Line: And now are borne. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE OLD BURYING-GROUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our vales are sweet with fern and rose Last Line: And over both is heaven. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Haverhill, Massachusetts; Graveyards THE OLD CHURCHYARD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone field of graves! Our churchyard old and hoar! Last Line: Till time and death shall die, with thee remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD KIRK YARD, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Come, come with me, to the old kirk yard Last Line: The rest that I seek in the old kirk yard? Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 146, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My path led through an old cemetery Last Line: Dust and ashes swirled in the air Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Cemeteries; Chinese Literature; Graveyards THE POOR, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are poor souls Last Line: Wherever men are born. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grief; Tears; Graveyards; Sorrow; Sadness THE POSTILION, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing lovely was the night Last Line: In my ear kept tingling. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Mourning; Postal Service; Graveyards; Bereavement; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four straight brick walls, severely plain Last Line: In gentlest mockery. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Quakers THE RABBIT TRAP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in de sage fiel', settin' in de sno' Last Line: An' little phil sleeps in de sleet an' de rain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Death - Children; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE REMAINS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking out of the new cemetery, my father Last Line: My eighty-year-old father nodding off into sleep Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Ancestry & Ancestors; Cemeteries THE RESURRECTION, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd dared her to go in, and we came on that dare Last Line: That first delicate laying on of hands? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jesus Christ; Love - Beginnings; Resurrection, The; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever love the lily pale Last Line: Of the closing gates of hell. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Magic; Story-telling; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE ROSE AND MAPLE LEAF, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Came a loud knocking at the empire's gate Last Line: An empire knit in one vast brotherhood. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SONG OF WERNER, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O roman maid! Why do you try Last Line: My lady sleeping in the tomb. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF DIOGENES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'tell me, good dog, whose tomb you guard so well'" Last Line: Yes: but the stars are now his dwelling-place' Subject(s): Cemeteries;death;diogenes;graves; "graveyards;dead, The;tombs;tombstones; THE TOMB OF THE PATRIOTS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britain! We cite you to our bar, once more Last Line: These, once so wretched near manhattan's shore. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Patriotism; Prison Ships; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMBS OF PLATAEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there they sleep! - the men who stood Last Line: Till rushing winds proclaim, -- the land is free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cemeteries; Plataea, Greece; Graveyards; Laspi THE VALLEY OF PEACE, by CAROLINE M. SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Oh, come, let us go to the valley of peace! Last Line: Though our mortal clay rests in the valley of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Fisher, Caroline M. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE WHITE PILGRIM: OLD CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cicadas were loud and what looked like a child's Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE WORMS AT HEAVEN'S GATE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the tomb, we bring badroulbadour Last Line: Out of the tomb we bring badroulbadour. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THERE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE WIND, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cemeteries; Country Life; Graveyards TO SUSAN WISHCOP, AN OJIBWA BURIED IN THE INDIAN CEMETERY, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Your mouth stings, full of pointy weeds Last Line: You have the dust of the world %under your nails Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians TO THE MARTYRED POET JUAN DIAZ COVARRUBIAS, by MANUEL ACUNA Poem Source First Line: Within the tomb, where hovers dim Last Line: That, if thy life was beautiful, %more beautiful thy death! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Poetry And Poets TOO LATE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Feel like writing Last Line: Long-stem roses. One %for each headstone Subject(s): Cemeteries; Parents TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE TRYSTING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far over the hills, ten miles, in the cloudless summer morning Last Line: And gains her presence at the feet of god. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRAPPIST CEMETERY - GETHSEMANI, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Brothers, the curving grasses and their daughters Subject(s): Cemeteries; Trappists TRINITY CHURCHYARD, by C. E. HUDEBURG Poem Source First Line: Light fractured leaps gently seeps relaxed Subject(s): Cemeteries TWO AT NORFOLK, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mow the grass in the cemetery, darkies, Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards UNDER THE VIOLETS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hands are cold; her face is white Last Line: Lies withered where the violets blow. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Violets; Graveyards UNNAMED, by BELLE CHAPMAN MORRILL Poem Text First Line: Sunk ankle-deep amid the quiet grass Last Line: "beloved of johannes vandermere." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Pioneers; Graveyards UNTIL THE DAWN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: A lonely grave hard by the prison wall Last Line: Of earth and sorrow pale before its light. Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Mourning; Nurses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement UNVEILING, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cemetery Subject(s): Cemeteries; Ancestors & Ancestry; Graveyards; Heritage; Heredity UPON PASSING AN OLD GRAVEYARD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey slabs, awry or fallen Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards UPON PASSING AN OLD GRAVEYARD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey slabs, awry or fallen Last Line: Are sleeping too, somewhere Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Cemeteries VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN A BURIAL-GROUND .. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptur'd monuments around Last Line: Calmly to share thy couch, which needs no graven stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Cemeteries; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Quakers VIOLETS ON LON HALVERSON'S GRAVE, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: No one has visited you for years Last Line: Spreading like pure light Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Heaven VISIT OF THE DEAD, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy soul shall find itself alone Last Line: Secrecy in thee. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards VISITING A DEAD MAN ON A SUMMER DAY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In flat america, in chicago, Subject(s): Cemeteries; Chicago; Graveyards WE LIVE IN THE LARGESS OF OUR NICKLE-DIME MOMENTS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even adonis, that gored fertility boy Last Line: We will weep for in a coming world Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Farm Life; Harvest; Obituaries WHAT INN IS THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who are these below? Subject(s): Cemeteries WHEN THE EARTH WAS STILL OPEN, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Blackened corner of the cemetery %already bears its cross: matthias ancker, Last Line: Than those who are trying to mourn him Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Funerals; Graves; Mourning WHITE PILGRIM: OLD CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cicadas were loud and what looked like a child's Last Line: King of kings, lord of lords, and the child %is large now ... But who will be left standing? Subject(s): Cemeteries WHITER THAN DOVES: AT THE JAFFREY BURYING GROUND, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Day's end, and tomorrow, a long drive Last Line: One by one from the arms of trees Subject(s): Cemeteries WHY?, by BENJAMIN SIMMONS Poem Text First Line: Why does the flower bloom? Last Line: And I still plead! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Graves; Tulips; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones WINGSPUN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Mornings she descended the stairs and waited by the stove Last Line: Lingering among the trees Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Spirituality WOODLAND AVENUE, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: The well-maintained Last Line: Tombs of the living Subject(s): Cemeteries YELLOW FEVER CEMETERY, by JOHN BENSKO Poem Source First Line: Unturned leaf, you were never very good Last Line: If we're lucky, if we've done it just right Subject(s): Cemeteries YOUR FATHER DEAD, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father dead and a field to mow Last Line: Is what he taught %but secretly hoped you'd outgrow Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers; Graves |
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