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Death Elegiac Lyric Poems

These Death Elegiac Lyric poems are examples of Elegiac Lyric poems about Death. These are the best examples of Elegiac Lyric Death poems written by international poets.

Premium Member Burial At Sea
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     There'd needn't be 
no digs of earth 

or clumps of clay 
that weigh my girth,
     ...

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Categories: baptism, bereavement, death, funeral,

Premium Member Buried at Sea
Let the sea be my grave and the crest of waves my monument
In statue's peace, faces I to faceless waters that lift me high
As being...

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Categories: appreciation, beautiful, death, imagery,
Premium Member GONE HOME LEFT MY COLD BODY UNDER THE SHEET ON THE COLD DAMP FLOOR-
Attached segregated I touched his warm skin yet
Deceased He was asleep he was non awaken

He was hidden he was asleep under the sheet he slept
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Categories: absence, bereavement, confusion,
Lost Forever
For Brevet Sergeant Jason Doig murdered 17/11/23 near Bordertown South Australia..

Lost Forever

Do you hear them 
Walking down the corridor
There's laughter there
And you know who it...

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Categories: death, death of a
Breaking News- Rip Aka
Police sources in Durban have confirmed Rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes was shot dead in a drive-by shooting spree on Florida Road, on Friday Night. Another...

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Categories: betrayal, death, emotions,

Thus Passes By the Glory of the World
Relics, relics sad and lone,
Cromwell's head and a single bone
that William the Conqueror left on earth
prove today of petty worth.
Oh that now those proud in...

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Categories: death, power, vanity,
Passing On
Another old friend has passed on,
May he rest whereever he's gone.
Once you're a year above eighty
thoughts of life's transience are weighty.
but here were good times...

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Categories: death of a friend,
Lachrymose
My heart like a desert is dry,
From my eyes flow the stream of tears...
For the pain of the world I cry,
The world is in turmoil,...

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Categories: anxiety, depression,
Why So Early
Light shone so bright
The future outright
Hills you have leveled
The small valley yet to be crossed

Hard work you had invested
Promising fruits in abundance
Yet a breath cut...

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Categories: anger, bereavement, best friend,
Premium Member The Tides of July
 Late July, the clouds billow waiting the afternoon rain
 This summer although just is not the same
 The seasons of my life have in...

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Categories: death, emotions, grief, loss,
A Jewel's Passing
So no more shall his traitors hate;
For death's veils have made it late
To slight any soul time has called
To dine and wine in the city...

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Categories: appreciation, death, family,
Black Tantrum
Something yond is sore to proveth,
judging those who is't disagreeth,
hurst nay hast peat swamp.

People breath their owneth blood,
Ulcers replaceth green air?

Benumbed lungs and panshard death,
city...

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Categories: blue, pain, sad,
Good Night, Caro
Go forth to the Sea, Sis 
In fulfillment of thy request
To flow with divers, seagulls, your Sea dreams
Envy shall sailors see, Sis,
You and this dancing...

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Categories: death, depression,
Bootless
Ten years spun into ballooning wear
Keep slipping through tighter fingers, 
Fresh year's tries in futility repair
Adamant dents of wasting days.   

Naive New Year's...

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Categories: age, allusion, anger, angst,
By the Wayside Stricken
Who lies now by the wayside stricken,
sick of body,  sick of soul?
His eyes are closed, his ears are deaf
to the somber bells that toll.
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Categories: friend, humanity, sympathy,

Book: Shattered Sighs