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Emily Dickinson
Soul, take thy risk.
Soul, take thy risk.
With Death to be
Were better than be not
With thee
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W S Merwin
Death Hand
Temptations still nest in it like basilisks.
Hang it up till the rings fall.
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Kobayashi Issa
A bath when you're born
His death poem:
A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
how stupid.
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Rg Gregory
conturbat me
martin’s death
has made me scared
of the old bat
that clings to the eaves
waiting to enter the house
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Emily Dickinson
Love -- is anterior to Life --
Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth --
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Walt Whitman
Portals.
WHAT are those of the known, but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
And what are those of life, but for Death?
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Emily Dickinson
Triumph -- may be of several kinds
Triumph -- may be of several kinds --
There's Triumph in the Room
When that Old Imperator -- Death --
By Faith
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by
Emily Dickinson
Witchcraft has not a Pedigree
Witchcraft has not a Pedigree
'Tis early as our Breath
And mourners meet it going out
The moment of our death --
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Kobayashi Issa
Windy fall
At my daughter's grave, thirty days
after her death:
Windy fall--
these are the scarlet flowers
she liked to pick.
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Emily Dickinson
Lay this Laurel on the One
Lay this Laurel on the One
Too intrinsic for Renown --
Laurel -- veil your deathless tree --
Him you chasten, that is He!
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Emily Dickinson
The first We knew of Him was Death --
The first We knew of Him was Death --
The second -- was -- Renown --
Except the first had justified
The second had not been.
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Robert Burns
53. Lines on the Author’s Death
HE who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead,
And a green grassy hillock hides his head;
Alas! alas! a devilish change indeed.
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Robert Burns
121. Epitaph on “Wee Johnnie”
WHOE’ER thou art, O reader, know
That Death has murder’d Johnie;
An’ here his body lies fu’ low;
For saul he ne’er had ony.
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Robert Burns
47. Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic
BELOW thir stanes lie Jamie’s banes;
O Death, it’s my opinion,
Thou ne’er took such a bleth’rin bitch
Into thy dark dominion!
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Friedrich von Schiller
The Genius With The Inverted Torch
Lovely he looks, 'tis true, with the light of his torch now extinguished;
But remember that death is not aesthetic, my friends!
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J R R Tolkien
Athelas
When the black breath blows,
And death's shadow grows,
Come Athelas! Come Athelas!
Life to the dying,
In the king's hand lying!
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William Morris
Day
I am Day; I bring again
Life and glory, Love and pain:
Awake, arise! from death to death
Through me the World's tale quickeneth.
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William Morris
Night
I am Night: I bring again
Hope of pleasure, rest from pain:
Thoughts unsaid 'twixt Life and Death
My fruitful silence quickeneth.
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Robert Burns
35. Epitaph on William Hood, Senior
HERE Souter Hood in death does sleep;
To hell if he’s gane thither,
Satan, gie him thy gear to keep;
He’ll haud it weel thegither.
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Walter Savage Landor
Death Stands Above Me, Whispering Low
Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what into my ear:
Of his strange language all I know
Is, there is not a word of fear.
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Robert Burns
187. Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands
WHEN Death’s dark stream I ferry o’er,
(A time that surely shall come,)
In Heav’n itself I’ll ask no more,
Than just a Highland welcome.
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Stevie Smith
My Heart Was Full
My heart was full of softening showers,
I used to swing like this for hours,
I did not care for war or death,
I was glad to draw my breath.
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Robert Burns
457. Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe
“STOP thief!” dame Nature call’d to Death,
As Willy drew his latest breath;
How shall I make a fool again?
My choicest model thou hast ta’en.
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Emily Dickinson
A Death blow is a Life blow to Some
A Death blow is a Life blow to Some
Who till they died, did not alive become --
Who had they lived, had died but when
They died, Vitality begun.
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Paul Celan
Landscape
tall poplars -- human beings of this earth!
black pounds of happiness -- you mirror them to death!
I saw you, sister, stand in that effulgence.
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