Farewell Elegy Poems
These Farewell Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Farewell. These are the best examples of Elegy Farewell poems written by international poets.
Rest in Power KamehamehaAfter school on my TV screen you were there
Giving me power from my bullies or scratching my hair.
How can I forget how you looked, orange...
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blessing, culture, devotion, farewell,
When Leaving Morphs to GrievingThough it is time to say goodbye,
I will abide my heart and try
Not to collapse and maudlin cry,
For there is a burning need that I
Cannot...
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Categories:
grief, how i feel,
In memory of passing away of my friend, Ben Today, we gather not to mourn the passing of our dear friend Ben, but to celebrate a life that brought us immeasurable joy and love.
In...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Our Nile
"Do not stand by my grave and weep", they said.
Here's something she would have said instead.
"Hey, smile, all of your smiles are beautiful."
Hers was more...
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Categories:
elegy, angel, cry, extended metaphor,
My Friend Is GoneMy friend is gone!!
For a journey
Which is at the top
A place with honey!!
My soul weep
As the sun cry
So the earth shift
Story now like a...
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Categories:
12th grade, anger, art,
Two Sorrows and a LieYou cannot charm away the grim reapers;
No matter how beautiful your slick tongue
Bathes your bottom lip; to give air lippers
‘til oxygen craves your depleting lung,
Because...
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Categories:
angel, anger, cry, dark,
Forgotten BeautyForgotten Beauty
Scarlet Beauty in her deathbed
Beauteous than the dewy rose
Beauteous than the dale of hermit
Beauteous than the Oceans pose
Beauteous than the eves and mornings
Which in...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, death, destiny,
Godspeed, HarryOn the wings of a Pegasus,
You've spirited away
To be with the Lord in heaven.
I wish I knew you better
During your living years,
But through your poetry,
You...
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Categories:
appreciation, death, farewell, feelings,
Memory of a PoetShadow of a poet
Writer I never met
Voice of a poet
Words on hearts etched
Beyond the shadow of death
Heavens and earth wept
Shadow of life
In a poet's soul...
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Categories:
death, family, farewell, father,
He Gave Me Only a CandleJust before he lost his thoughts and memories,
Before he closed his eyes and doors to sleep,
Before he listened to his heart stop,
Before he breathed his...
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Categories:
death,
A Gentle SoulA gentle soul we remember well
Never a bad word said on which to dwell
As the years go by memories are made
And we recall them now...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Hail and FarewellWe hold these truths
To be beyond doubt
As they are sacred
To each one of us
When one passes
And leaves this world
We will remember them
Ave atque vale.
©...
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Categories:
death, funeral,
Elegy For a Garden GnomeThere once was a gnome named Jerome
Who made a herb garden his home.
One day as he frolicked,
He slipped and fell on some garlic
And was instantly...
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Categories:
elegy, farewell, for him, humor,
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Trees (solidity presenting)
Fluttering leaves
The light kissed plants merry with the wind free and clean
The rain stream glimmering to
a speckled burst of sun
Gentle easy rolling chuckle...
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language,
Elegy, Oursthe stars weep ...
but not for heaven
they weep for vacant eyes
and hearts of parched desire
with tears untold ...
and uncounted
for where is the hunger -
the yearning...
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Categories:
elegy, analogy, appreciation, life, loss,