The Poetry Of Death
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Death is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread. Whether it is the actual end of our life’s journey or merely a transit point to Heavenly glory its actual point of impact is, obviously, life changing. But what do poets think of it? How do their minds tangle with the subject and make sense of this? That’s what we thought too. Poets as rich and diverse as Longfellow, Hood, Bronte, Burns and Gilbran here share their words, thoughts and visions with us. Death is unavoidable but the journey there should be as informed and enjoyable as possible. Many of these titles are on our audiobook version which can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
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The Poetry Of Death - Daniel Sheehan
The Poetry Of Death
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this volume we look at Death, the end of mortality. Through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets the emotions of this subject are distilled to bring you a unique poetic guide.
It is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread. Whether it is the actual end of our life’s journey or merely a transit point to Heavenly glory its actual point of impact is, obviously, life changing. But what do poets think of it? How do their minds tangle with the subject and make sense of this? That’s what we thought too. Poets as rich and diverse as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Hood, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas hardy, Daniel Sheehan and Kahil Gilbran here share their words, thoughts and visions with us. Death is unavoidable but the journey there should be as informed and enjoyable as possible.
Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe
Index Of Poems
Rain On A Grave By Thomas Hardy
No Coward Soul Is Mine By Emily Bronte
I Am Standing Upon The Seashore By Henry Van Dyke
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Afternoon In February By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Psalm 23 - The Lord's My Shepherd
That Endless Loop By Daniel Sheehan
All Is Well By Henry Scott Holland
Don’t Know What This Is As It Followed On By Kahlil Gibran
Death Be Not Proud By John Donne
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats By Percy Bsysshe Shelley
Death By William Butler Yeats
Death By Thomas Hood
A Death-Bed By Rudyard Kipling
As At Thy Portals Also Death By Walt Whitman
For the Anniversary Of John Keats' Death By Sara Teasdale
A Ballad Of Death By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bereavement In Their Death To Feel By Emily Dickinson
Sonnet 66 By William Shakespeare
Such, Such Is Death By Charles Hamilton Sorley
His Meditation Upon Death By Robert Herrick
To The Lady Crewe, Upon The Death Of Her Child By Robert Herrick
Spirits Of The Dead By Edgar Allan Poe
To One Departed by Edgar Allan Poe
To One In Paradise By Edgar Allan Poe
I Measure Every Grief By Emily Dickinson
A Mother’s Love – Where She Goes She Is Not Gone By Daniel Sheehan
Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson
The Dead Man Walking By Thomas Hardy
No Longer Mourn For Me By William Shakespeare
Remember By Christina Rossetti
Sonnets X By John Donne
To Those Whom I Love & Those Who Love Me By Anonymous
Death By Rainer Maria Rilke
After Death By Sara Teasdale
A Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Death, To The Dead For Evermore By Robert Louis Stevenson
To Death By Robert Herrick
The Sleeper By Edgar Allan Poe
On Death By Kahil Gilbran
Bavarian Gentians By DH Lawrence
The Charge Of The Light Brigade By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Rain On A Grave By Thomas Hardy
Clouds spout upon her
Their waters amain
In ruthless disdain,
Her who but lately
Had shivered with pain
As at touch of dishonour
If there had lit on