Death Poems by Kick, Russ -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction The Nature of Death

From “Song of Myself” Death the Leveller Dirge Poets Have Chanted Mortality Death Is a Fisherman Death Snips Proud Men On Death, Without Exaggeration That Morning “Death is a dialogue between” Death Faded Love From Queen Mab Morphine On Death Sleep and His Brother Death From The Faerie Queene “Were I a King” Death the Consecrator “O Death the Healer” From “Mortality” “A Very Ancient Ode” (from Japanese Literature ) From “Thanatopsis” From “Sunday Morning” Death—Divination From “Sîva” [“Shiva”] Dirge in Woods “I like a look of agony” Birth and Death Anatomy On a Grave in Christ-Church, Hants A Ring From Paradise Lost “Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there” To His Watch When He Could Not Sleep From Ajax Only Death “Death only craves not gifts” The Dead The World Is a Hunt Homo Sapiens The Old Man Who Made No Lamentation at the Death of His Sons (from The Masnavi ) “If I should die” From Night Thoughts The Voice On the World All Things Decay and Die Hamlet's soliloquy The Death of the Poor From The Bhagavad Gita The Suicide's Argument From “The Suicide” Call From An Essay on Man Small

Seeing Death

My Number “Because I could not stop for Death” Ballad for a Goth Chick From “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd” “Death, be not proud” (from Holy Sonnets ) Newborn Death Spring and Death The Junk Man Question Epitaph Babies Death's Epitaph To Death Madrigal Death Stands Above Me Small Hours Poem The Grammarian

Those Who Have Gone (and the Ones Still Here)

Dirge Without Music “My life closed twice before its close” The Departed Naming Silence “The distance that the dead have gone” Stillbirth the lost baby poem On the Death of My Son Charles On My First Daughter Ode to History Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers Mother's Lament How to Find Out Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church Coffins of Black We Are Seven To My Cannibalized Twin To My Brother Lines on His Brother's Grave Pronouncing the Dead On the Death of Anne Brontë To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations A Single Autumn “Full fathom five” (from The Tempest ) For Euthanasia and Pain-Killing Drugs Lament To His Mother, C. L. M. “oh antic God” My Mother Contemplating Her Gun To My Mother Time Aunt Helen For My Godmother, Twenty Years Later The Old Familiar Faces As From a Quiver of Arrows From “To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy who died Dec:r 16—My Birthday” The Letter Bess The Class of '69 “Death sets a thing significant” To an Athlete Dying Young “Oh! snatch'd away, in beauty's bloom,” The Death-Bed Dirge after one year A Reminiscence The Passing of Arthur (from Idylls of the King ) Richard Cory The Ballad of Dead Ladies Death by Water (from The Waste Land ) To Cruel Ocean From Lycidas Epitaph on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke “O Sorrow” (from Endymion ) From “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats” Epitaphs “The bustle in a house” “The days of Spring are here!” The Bones of the Dead The Letters of the Dead To the Forgotten Dead If You Knew

Love

If Death Is Kind And You as Well Must Die From “A Boy's Poem” untitled poem Oneness Dead Love Spooks Requiem Testament A Grave Song Love and Death Unheard Melodies Troth with the Dead From “The Apparition” I Want to Die While You Love Me Sonnet 66 The Lament of the Border Widow Annabel Lee To a Dead Lover “Grieve not, dear Love!” Upon the Death of Sir Albertus Morton's Wife From “The Relique” Love And Death A Quoi Bon Dire An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife “I Have No Wealth of Grief” Quanta invidia io ti porto “Life Knows No Dead So Beautiful” On His Deceased Wife Keen Seraphine The Vinegar Man She, At His Funeral “The grave my little cottage is” I Shall Not Care When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground “Over I journey” (from Hymns to the Night ) Over the Coffin She Weeps Over Rahoon “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” “Come not, when I am dead” Remember “This living hand, now warm and capable” From “The Triumph of Time” He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead Sonnets from the Portugese XXIII she lived You Bring Out the Dead in Me Apparent Death

The Four-Legged and the Winged

The Dead Sparrow Epitaph to a Dog North Beach Chinese Sonnet Funeral Oration for a Mouse Traveling through the Dark Fox White Rat Upon Butchering of the Hog Earth Cafeteria haiku Affinity: Mustang Some Heaven Something Fragile, Broken For Jan, With Love Rock Paper Scissors Song

Violence

Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind The Man He Killed Anthem for Doomed Youth Dulce et Decorum Est Suicide in the Trenches In Flanders Fields Back From Epitaphs of the War An Irish Airman Foresees His Death The Dying Airman From “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” History's Juju The Second Slaughter So I Was a Coffin On the Russian Persecution of the Jews The Lynching From “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” From Eugene Onegin , Canto Six: “The Duel” Stagolee Road Kill Juárez Homicide Detective South Central Los Angeles Death Trip, 1982 Killers Dropping the Lamb crepuscular (the family tomb) Monongah, 1907 In the Free World Woman Martyr Flight Fire and Ice

Facing One's Demise

“Do not go gentle into that good night” To Death From Julius Caesar Learning a Word While Climbing Staying Under A Contemplation upon Flowers On the Brink of Death “If I should die to-night” “Come away, come away, death” (from Twelfth Night ) From “Ode to a Nightingale” “In Love With Easeful Death” To One Shortly to Die Finish Sleep, Darksome, Deep Finis From “Graveyard by the Sea” Laughter and Death A Ballad of Suicide From “Of the Last Verses in the Book” Fear From Measure for Measure “So proud she was to die” From Macbeth Upon a Passing Bell When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be From “Good-bye” Elegy The Quatrain From “Growing Old” Death and the Unfortunate “Since There Is No Escape”

The Crossing

“I heard a fly buzz when I died” The Given Prospice Stars, Songs, Faces The King of Thule dying Death at Daybreak Upon His Departure Hence The Dying Man and the Vulture “I've seen a dying eye” new orleans limbo Being Born, Then Dying

Remains and Rituals

Common Dust The Sin-Eater Resurrection, or What He Told Me to Do When He Died The Difference Under the Vulture Tree June Night Statuary The Corpse The Corpse Washers From “Death Universal” From “The Indian Burying-Ground” In a Burying Ground “them bones” In the Cemetery Of Him I Love Day and Night “Pia, Caritatevole, Amorosissima” Cemetery Chess A Dirge Oil and Blood “Safe in their alabaster chambers” The Grave of Shelley O Earth! Art Thou Not Weary In the Cemetery The City Dead-House From “Tract” A Question Finnegan's Wake From “Tetélestai”

What Comes Next

The Death Secret To a Dead Man Bring Them Not Back “You may bury me in de East” From Troas “Against the Fear of Death” (from On the Nature of Things ) 1 Corinthians 15:51–57 From In Memoriam From The Odyssey How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven The City in the Sea The Dead Man Walking The Dance of Death “The only ghost I ever saw” From Generation to Generation When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay The Garden of Proserpine From Songs of Kabir The Old Mendicant The To-be-forgotten From “Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible” “If I shouldn't be alive” All Soul's Day In Death No Death The Instinct Of Hope “A death-blow is a life-blow to some” The Transmigration of Souls The Day of Judgment God Lay Dead in Heaven On the Dunes Dancing with Electrons

Carpe Diem

First Fig Death To His Coy Mistress Blue Squills The Emperor of Ice-Cream Ode 1.11 Ecclesiastes 9:4–10 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Mariposa An Argument From The Rubaiyat Intoxication An Epitaph Midnight Oil Since I Have Felt the Sense of Death The Choice Drinking Wine on Grave Sweeping Day May Day

Ossuary

What We Know of Death by Drowning The Killer Two poems from Spoon River Anthology Moth-Terror Grotesque The Poison Tree A limerick

Author Index Title Index First Line Index Acknowledgments Credits & Permissions About the Editor

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