Thanatopsis Poems - Poems about Thanatopsis

...Nothing more intimate than sleep wake before dawn, go downtown prepare for tomorrow, come home from work late. Most cities prosper undisturbed sleeping peacefully while the tide goes out. A......Read the rest...

...Bryant’s Necropolis Conceit Silent halls of death so cometh William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis supremeus now A sepulchre awaits us all. Dour darkness and shroud forever Thanatopsis-Phantasm......Read the rest...

...Would life change without me? Would fam’ly be dif’rent? Would time be affected? Am I that important to assume being gone would change everyone else? I say yes, we all are.......Read the rest...

...We are in Lexington and it is 1847 Emilie laughs, and we smile, and still we read aloud together. Mr. Lincoln likes the Niles Weekly Rigister--especially and of course the poetry. Especially "Thanatopsis" He bracketed this: But, Ah! What wish can prosper, or what prayer for merchants rich in cargos of despair, who drive a loathsome traffic, gauge and span, and buy the muscles and the......Read the rest...