If I should die,
And you should live,
And time should gurgle on,
And morn should beam,
And noon should burn,
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Tag Archives: Death poems
In Our Hearts
We thought of you with love today,
But that is nothing new.
We thought about you yesterday.
And days before that too.
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Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death
Name me no names for my disease,
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
But homesick unto death.
~Witter Bynner
I sing of Death; yet soon, perchance may be A dweller in the tomb. But twenty years Have wither’d, since my pilgrimage began
I sing of Death; yet soon, perchance may be
A dweller in the tomb. But twenty years
Have wither’d, since my pilgrimage began,
And I look back upon my boyish days
With mournful joy; as musing wand’rers do,
With eye reverted, from some lofty hill,
Upon the bright and peaceful vale below.�
Oh! let me live, until the fires that feed
My soul, have work’d themselves away, and then,
Eternal Spirit, take me to Thy home!
For when a child, I shaped inspiring dreams,
And nourish’d aspirations that awoke
Beautiful feelings flowing from the face
Of Nature; from a child, I learn’d to reap
A harvest of sweet thoughts for future years.
~Robert Montgomery
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away
When I think of ages past
That have floated down the stream
Of life and love and death,
I feel how free it makes us
To pass away.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. The Carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
~Emily Dickinson
The Burial of Carol Joy Beglau
It seems fitting
that the men you knew in life
perform this task
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