Sympathy Elegy Poems
These Sympathy Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Sympathy. These are the best examples of Elegy Sympathy poems written by international poets.
No One Sees My TearsI love walking in the rain
Because no one sees my tears
The drops mask my pain
And wash away my fears
The thunder drowns out my sobs
As lightning...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Centurion's ElegyFor those who observe Good Friday, may God fill your heart
with the hope of the resurrection
The crowd is mixed -
some on their knees,
some raise...
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Categories:
christian, easter, god, jesus,
A Friend Has Left For EternityA friend has hence home
Forever leaving us to weep
These memories left for us to keep
In our hearts no escape the other home
Our friends have left...
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Categories:
bereavement, loss, sad, sorrow,
I Remember AlmaI Remember Alma
She sits in her favorite chair
Beside her is her remote for the television
Letters dating as far back as two years before are-
Strewn out...
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Categories:
absence, angel, appreciation, death,
Deanna“She was your cousin?”
They would all echo,
their half-faux-sympathy was pathetic,
...
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Categories:
11th grade, bereavement, cancer,
The Silver Ship To Heaven- Loss of Family Member
Roberta lived on this earth for so many years!
Was a great mother, wife, and grandmother, too.
A long and fulfilling life with joy, completion and no...
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Categories:
death, emotions, family, heaven,
Blood of the InnocentNature has cast it's spell on us.
Virtues of our pasts reels!
Who, what shall stand well to defend us?
Nature has bless us with its...
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Categories:
abuse, bereavement, death, depression,
William Dunbar: Lament For the Makaris TranslationLament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets")
by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530]
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
i who enjoyed good health and gladness
am overwhelmed...
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Categories:
death, evil, fear, poets,
George FloydTwo hundred fatalities, hundred more to die,
The number keeps growing.
unbridled guns in the hands of sadistic cops,
another victim on choke hold.
he is...
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Categories:
cry, death, hate, horror,
Back To BelfastBack to Belfast
I have been to the Ghetto thrice
To Auschwitz twice
And to Belfast once
And to tell the truth
Belfast is the winner of the weirdest places...
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Categories:
christian, city, death, good
Covid-19- Composing ElegyThe Gigantic Powerful,
The Omni-mighty,
The Omni-present
Covid-19 has come
can kill anytime anyone
infecting the lungs
Oh! Shut the mouth!
Take a mask!
Don't speak anymore!
Otherwise, the virus will infiltrate into your...
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Categories:
elegy, fear, life, world,
Elegy For a Little Girl, LostElegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch
. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .
She was the joy of my youth,
and now...
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Categories:
bereavement, daughter, death, eulogy,
Elegy For a Little Girl, LostElegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch
. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .
She was the joy of my youth,
and now...
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Categories:
elegy, daughter, death, eulogy, funeral,
Little Elegy By Igor SeveryaninOh, she has lifted on tiptoes
and gifted lips to me for kiss
that was so tired, and autumn knows
wet silence. There were soundless tears
of ours, they...
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Categories:
elegy, emotions, feelings, kiss, metaphor,
Siren Cryin'
She was Shreveport sitting on the front porch
that warm February Louisiana evening
When the cold, shrill code blue siren news
slowly, solemnly...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, pain, sorrow,