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Items tagged with : death
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| A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General | BY JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) His Grace! impossible! what dead! Of old age too, and in his bed! And could that mighty warrior fall? And so i... | |
| Adam Lindsay Gordon | by MARGARET THOMAS (1843-1929) Dead in the bush by his own rash hand,Life from its shattered temple riven,Staining with blood the sinless land,Dead i... | |
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death | by W. B. YEATS (1865-1939) I KNOW that I shall meet my fateSomewhere among the clouds above;Those that I fight I do not hate,Those that I guard I do ... |
| Elegy for Jane | by THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) My student, thrown by a horse) I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils; And her quick look, a sidelong p... | |
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Requiem | by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down ... |
| Superman | by ROBERT GRANT (1852-1940) The horror-haunted Belgian plains riven by shot and shellAre strewn with her undaunted sons who stayed the jaws of hell.I... | |
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The Grave of Keats | by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain,He rests at last beneath God's veil of blue:Taken from life when life... |
| The Last Words of Charles Edwards, Esq. | by William Maginn Dear North, — I shall be obliged by your sinking scruples, and giving a place in your next number to the enclosed paper, entitled &... | |
| There Will Come Soft Rains | by SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933) There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in ... |