Best Elegaic Poems
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1.
"For the Union Dead," by Robert Lowell
9 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"The stone statues of the abstract Union Soldier/ grow slimmer and younger each year--/ wasp-waisted, they doze over muskets/ and muse through their sideburns... Shaw's father wanted no monument/ except the ditch,/ where his son's body was thrown... The ditch is nearer."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 2 points
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"Dying Away," by William Meredith
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3.
"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
8 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won... But O heart! heart! heart!/ O the bleeding drops of red,/ Where on the deck my Captain lies,/ Fallen cold and dead."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"The Tending," by Sharon Olds
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
5.
"Dirge Without Music," by Edna St. Vincent Millay
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
6.
"To An Athlete Dying Young," by A. E. Housman
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"And round that early-laurelled head/ Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,/ And find unwithered on its curls/ The garland briefer than a girl's."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"In Memory of W. B. Yeats," by W. H. Auden
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"What instruments we have agree/ The day of his death was a dark cold day... Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry./ Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,/ For poetry makes nothing happen... Earth, receive an honoured guest:/ William Yeats is laid to rest./ Let the Irish vessel lie/ Emptied of its poetry."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
8.
"Oh, Everette, There Is No Reason Why," by Kay Murphy
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Everette, I don't think, tonight,/ three days after another hellish holiday,/ there's any reason I should continue/ to take this, still counting syllables/ to drag myself to the next dull line."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
9.
"Death Stands Above Me," by Walter Savage Landor
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
10.
"To the Dead," by Frank Bidart
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
11.
"The Changing Light at Sandover," by James Merrill
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
12.
"Fugue of Death," by Paul Celan
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
13.
"The Haw Lantern," by Seamus Heaney
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
14.
"Elegy for Jane," by Theodore Roethke
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
15.
"Last Gifts," by Kim Addonizio
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
16.
"Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire, of a Child in London," by Dylan Thomas
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
17.
"Nereid Elegy," by Sharon Olds
-4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
18.
"By Earth," by Sharon Olds
-4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"In Memoriam," by Lord Alfred Tennyson
-4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
20.
"The Reaper and the Flowers," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
21.
"Because I Could Not Stop For Death," by Emily Dickinson
-5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
22.
"Funeral Blues," by W. H. Auden
-5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
23.
"My Death," by Raymond Carver
-5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Question," by Mary Sweson
-6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"November," by Edmund Spenser
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