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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GRAVEYARDS Matches Found: 206 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 BURIAL GROUNDS, by RANDY BLASING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother always mourned the chcildlessness Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards BURIAL RITES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem 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 CEMETERY ROAD, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one's been buried here for years Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards 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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: And on the graves the poinsettias Subject(s): Cemeteries; Christmas; Graveyards; Nativity, The 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 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 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; 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 Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old pagan burials, uninscribed rock Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards 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 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 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 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 ESTATE SALE: THE SCRABBLE GAME OF A DEAD WOMAN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem 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 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 FROM A DAYBOOK, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The musk of the cemetery Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The 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 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 GRAVES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem 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 GRAVEYARD AT HURD'S GULCH, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem 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 JEWISH CEMETERY IN QUEENS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem 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 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 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 JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a low wall, falling away Subject(s): Jews; Cemeteries; Italy; Judaism; Graveyards; Italians LIKE DECORATIONS IN A NIGGER CEMETERY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem 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.) 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 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 MEDITATIONS IN A CEMETERY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem 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 Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this tenement Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards MONTJUICH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 NUTHATCH SITTING ON A BEAR'S NOSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Really just a small cast iron representation Subject(s): Cemeteries; Statues; Graveyards 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem 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 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 RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem 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.) ROCK COUNTRY, by RANDY BLASING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the dead far outnumber the living Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Oxford County, Maine; Cemeteries; Heritage; Heredity; Graveyards 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 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 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 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 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 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 SILVER STREET, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 THE ALBUQUERQUE GRAVEYARD, by JAY WRIGHT Poem 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 Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came here with a young girl Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards 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 heavenstarved. 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 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 MEADOW, by TOM SLEIGH Poem 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 RESURRECTION, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem 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 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 Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cemeteries; Country Life; Graveyards 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 TWO AT NORFOLK, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem 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 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 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 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 Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In flat america, in chicago, Subject(s): Cemeteries; Chicago; Graveyards 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 |
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