World's Best Poetry: Sorrow / Consolation

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O Holy Aether, And Swift-winged Winds by Aeschylus
Time's Revenge by Agathias Scholasticus
A Death-bed by James Aldrich
The Dirty Old Man by William Allingham
After Death [in Arabia] [or, Resurrection Of Abdullah] by Edwin Arnold
The Secret Of Death by Edwin Arnold
Requiescat by Matthew Arnold
Agatha by Alfred Austin
Woman's Inconstancy by Robert Ayton
The World by Francis Bacon
Death In Youth by Philip James Bailey
Ilka Blade O' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap O' Dew by James Ballantyne
Life [and Death] by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
On The Tombs In Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont
The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin
Asleep, Asleep; Martydom Of Saint Stephen by Lucy Ann Bennett
The Old Vagabond by Pierre Jean De Beranger
It Is Not Death To Die by George Washington Bethune
The Princess by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie
Song by Susanna Blamire
The Dead by Mathilde Blind
The Song Of The Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood
Unchanging by Friedrich Martin Von Bodenstedt
A Little While by Horatio (horatius) Bonar
The Exile To His Wife by Joseph Brenan
The Unillumined Verge by Robert (1858-1941) Bridges
Song Of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks
Thalatta! Thalatta!; Cry Of The Ten Thousand by Joseph Brownlee Brown
Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mother And Poet; Turin, After The News From Gaeta, 1861 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning
Prospice by Robert Browning
'blessed Are They That Mourn' by William Cullen Bryant
The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
The Wanderer: 2. In France: The Portrait by Edward Robert Bulwer-lytton
When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette
The Banks O' Doon by Robert Burns
Bonie [bonnie] Lesley by Robert Burns
Farewell To Nancy by Robert Burns
Highland Mary by Robert Burns
I Love My Jean by Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
To Mary In Heaven by Robert Burns
Waiting by John Burroughs
Byron's Latest Verses by George Gordon Byron
The Dream by George Gordon Byron
Farewell To His Wife by George Gordon Byron
Good Night [or, My Native Land - Good Night] by George Gordon Byron
A Picture Of Death [or, Greece] by George Gordon Byron
Song by George Gordon Byron
Blighted Love by Luis De Camoens
Over The Hill To The Poor-house by William Mckendree Carleton
The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick
Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing
Jeune Fille Et Jeune Fleur by Francois Auguste Rene De Chateaubriand
Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton
Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough
Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough
The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Present Good by William Cowper
The Approach Of Age [or, Age With Stealing Step] by George Crabbe
Only A Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch
Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia Crawford
We Parted In Silence by Julia Crawford
Kathleen Mavourneen by Louisa Macartney Crawford
We Parted In Silence by Louisa Macartney Crawford
Human Life by Aubrey Thomas De Vere
The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere
Love And Death by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Home, Wounded by Sydney Thompson Dobell
The Sundial by Henry Austin Dobson
The Two Mysteries by Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge
Hush! by Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr
Come, Let Us Kisse And Parte by Michael Drayton
Ashes Of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman
Three Grains Of Corn; The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards
Jim's Kids by Eugene Field
On Anne Allen by Edward Fitzgerald
To Myself by Paul Fleming
Additional Stanza To Take, O Take Those Lips Away by John Fletcher
Melancholy [or, In Praise Of Melancholy] by John Fletcher
My Old Kentucky Home, Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster
Old Folks At Home by Stephen Collins Foster
Aunt Phillis's Guest; St Helena Island, South Carolina, 1863 by William Channing Gannett
Black-eyed Susan by John Gay
Awakening by Washington Gladden
To Death by Willibald Christoph Gluck
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
A Woman's Love by John Milton Hay
In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne
Stanzas On The Death Of A Friend by Reginald Heber
The Palm-tree And The Pine by Heinrich Heine
The Hour Of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Echoes: 4. Invictus by William Ernest Henley
The Flower by George Herbert
Virtue [immortal] by George Herbert
The Changed Cross by Charles, Mrs. Hobart
The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hector To His Wife by Homer
Parting Of Hector And Andromache by Homer
The Bridge Of Sighs by Thomas Hood
The Death-bed by Thomas Hood
Fair Ines by Thomas Hood
Farewell, Life; Written During Sickness, April, 1845 by Thomas Hood
The Song Of The Shirt by Thomas Hood
'what Can An Old Man Do But Die' by Thomas Hood
Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland
Old by Ralph Hoyt
Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson
Habeas Corpus by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
My Wife And Child by Henry R. Jackson
Going And Coming by Edward A. Jenks
Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats
Absence by Frances Anne Kemble
Faith by Frances Anne Kemble
Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy
Robin Adair by Caroline Keppel
Sic Vita by Henry (1592-1669) King
A Rough Rhyme On A Rough Matter; The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley
Mortality by William Knox
Sonnet by Louise Labe
The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb
The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Farewell by Walter Savage Landor
Man by Walter Savage Landor
Song by Richard Le Gallienne
What Of The Darkness?; To The Happy Dead People by Richard Le Gallienne
Fidelity In Doubt by Guirade Le Roux
Auld Robin Gray by Anne Lindsay
Sonnet (suggested By Mr. Watt's Picture Of Love And Death) by Anne Lindsay
The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-lampson
The Braes Of Yarrow by John (1748-1788) Logan
The Death Of Minnehaha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Footsteps Of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God's Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Reaper And The Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To Lucasta, [on] Going Beyond The Seas by Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, [on] Going To The Wars by Richard Lovelace
Auf Wiedersehen! Summer by James Russell Lowell
The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell
Palinode; Autumn by James Russell Lowell
The Morning-glory by Maria White Lowell
Antony And [or, To] Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle
Thinkin' Long by Anna Johnston Macmanus
On The Death Of Her Brother, Francis I by Margaret Of Angouleme
To Diane De Poitiers by Clement Marot
After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston
There Is No Death by John Luckey Mccreery
Lament For Heliodore by Meleager
Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle
London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes
Lycidas by John Milton
Samson On His Blindness by John Milton
Sonnet: 22. To The Same [cyriack Skinner] by John Milton
The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell
The Rustic Lad's Lament In The Town by David Macbeth Moir
Alas! How Light A Cause May Move by Thomas Moore
Farewell! But Whenever You Welcome The Hour by Thomas Moore
The Journey Onwards by Thomas Moore
Lament Of The Peri For Hinda by Thomas Moore
Linda To Hafed by Thomas Moore
The Beggar by Thomas Moss
Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell
My Heid Is Like To Rend, Willie by William Motherwell
I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg
Apres by Arthur Joseph Munby
On A Grave At Grindelwald by Frederick William Henry Myers
The Land O' The Leal by Carolina Oliphant Nairne
Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele
The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel
The King Of Denmark's Ride by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan Norton
Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan Norton
Never Despair by William Smith O'brien
Song by Arthur William Edgar O'shaughnessy
The Fairest Thing In Mortal Eyes by Charles D' Orleans
For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer
Parting by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The Term Of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
My Child by John Pierpont
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe
The Green Grass Under The Snow by Annie A. Preston
Over The River by Nancy Woodbury Priest
Afar In The Desert by Thomas Pringle
A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
Life by Bryan Waller Procter
Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter
The Last Leaf by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
The Vanity Of The World by Francis Quarles
Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay
Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond
Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond
Perished; Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter
The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers
The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Are The Children At Home? by Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster
Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott
Coronach by Walter Scott
The Rover's Adieu [or, Farewell]; Song by Walter Scott
Stanza 23. Song Of The Young Highlander Summoned From His Bride by Walter Scott
The Course Of True Love, Fr. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Death Of Death by William Shakespeare
The Dirge [for Fidele], Fr. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Grief, Fr. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Hamlet's Soliloquy [on Death], Fr. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Love's Memory by William Shakespeare
Song Of The Holly, Fr. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Song, Fr. Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 87 by William Shakespeare
Unrequited Love, Fr. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stanzas Written In Dejection, Near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lament Of The Irish Emigrant by Helen Selina Sheridan
Death The Leveller [or, Death The Conqueror] by James Shirley
Death The Leveller [or, Death The Conqueror] by James Shirley
Astrophel And Stella: 31 by Philip Sidney
A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill
She Died In Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery
The Grave Of Sophocles by Simias Of Thebes
If I Should Die Tonight by Arabella Eugenia Smith
Times Go By Turns by Robert Southwell
The Nun And The Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford
Underwoods: Book 1: 27. In Memoriam F. A. S. by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lines To The Memory Of Annie Who Died At Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
'only A Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe
I Hold Still by Julius Sturm
To A Portrait by Arthur Symons
Break, Break, Break by Alfred Tennyson
Dead, In A Foreign Land by Alfred Tennyson
Death In Life's Prime by Alfred Tennyson
Grief Unspeakable by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 51 by Alfred Tennyson
Lady Clara Vere De Vere by Alfred Tennyson
Locksley Hall by Alfred Tennyson
The May Queen by Alfred Tennyson
Oh That 'twere Possible by Alfred Tennyson
The Peace Of Sorrow by Alfred Tennyson
Personal Resurrection by Alfred Tennyson
The Poet's Tribute by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
Spiritual Companionship by Alfred Tennyson
Time And Eternity by Alfred Tennyson
Daisy by Francis Thompson
Lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution by Chidiock Tichborne
Dorothy In The Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge
The Passage by Johann Ludwig Uhland
God's Sure Help In Sorrow by Anton Ulrich
Absence by Anonymous
Good-bye by Anonymous
Grief For The Dead by Anonymous
Guilty Or Not Guilty by Anonymous
Helen Of Kirkconnell by Anonymous
Inscription On Melrose Abbey by Anonymous
Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament; A Scottish Song by Anonymous
Lavender by Anonymous
Peace by Anonymous
The Saddest Fate by Anonymous
'they're Dear Fish To Me' by Anonymous
Waly, Waly by Anonymous
Watching For Papa by Anonymous
The Wife To Her Husband by Anonymous
Happy Are The Dead by Henry Vaughan
They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan
Of Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell
Beautiful Snow by John Whitaker Watson
When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed by Walt Whitman
The Angel Of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier
Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier
To Her Absent Sailor by John Greenleaf Whittier
Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Blind by Israel Zangwill
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