Introductory Essay |
| | An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott (18351922) |
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I. Disappointment in Love |
| | The Course of True Love by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | Linda to Hafed by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | Love not by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (18081877) |
| | The Princess by Björnstjerne Björnson (18321910) |
| | Unrequited Love by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Fair Ines by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | The Banks o Doon by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | Sonnet: With how sad steps by Sir Philip Sidney (15541586) |
| | Agatha by Alfred Austin (18351913) |
| | The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson (18401921) |
| | Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | Song: A weary lot is thine, fair maid by Sir Walter Scott (17711832) |
| | Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne (Lindsay) Barnard (17501825) |
| | To a Portrait by Arthur Symons (18651945) |
| | Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) |
| | The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine (17971856) |
| | Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle (17351788) |
| | Waly, walyAnonymous |
| | Lady Ann Bothwells LamentAnonymous |
| | My heid is like to rend, Willie by William Motherwell (17971835) |
| | Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman (18631953) |
| | A Womans Love by John Hay (18381905) |
| | The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers (18621912) |
| | Has summer come without the rose? by Arthur William Edgar OShaughnessy (18441881) |
| | The Dirty Old Man by William Allingham (18241889) |
| | Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell (18241874) |
| | Divided by Jean Ingelow (18201897) |
| | To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot (14961544) |
| | The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) |
| | Take, O, take those lips away by William Shakespeare (15641616) and John Fletcher (15791625) |
| | Womans Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton (15701638) |
| | Times Revenge by Agathias (c. 530582) |
| | The Dream by Lord Byron (17881824) |
| | Alas! how light a cause by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | Blighted Love by Luís de Camões (c. 15241580) |
| | The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882) |
| | The Portrait by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (18311891) |
| | Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (18261887) |
| | Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge (18271916) |
| | The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford (18351921) |
| | Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux (11101147) |
| | Faith by Frances Anne Kemble (18091893) |
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II. Parting and Absence |
| | Parting by Coventry Patmore (18231896) |
| | To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace (16181658) |
| | Good-byeAnonymous |
| | Ae fond kiss, and then we sever by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | O, my Luve s like a red, red rose by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | Maid of Athens, ere we part by Lord Byron (17881824) |
| | Song of the Young Highlander by Sir Walter Scott (17711832) |
| | Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay (16851732) |
| | The Parting LoversAnonymous |
| | Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay (16861758) |
| | As slow our ship by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough (18191861) |
| | Adieu, adieu! my native shore by Lord Byron (17881824) |
| | Farewell to his Wife by Lord Byron (17881824) |
| | Come, let us kisse and parte by Michael Drayton (15631631) |
| | Farewell! thou art too dear by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Kathleen Mavourneen by Louisa Macartney Crawford (17901858) |
| | We parted in silence by Louisa Macartney Crawford (17901858) |
| | Auf Wiedersehen by James Russell Lowell (18191891) |
| | Palinode by James Russell Lowell (18191891) |
| | Farewell!but whenever by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | Parting of Hector and Andromache by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
| | Hector to His Wife by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
| | To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace (16181658) |
| | To Her Absent Sailor by John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) |
| | I love my Jean by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell (17971835) |
| | O, saw ye bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | The Rustic Lads Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir (17981851) |
| | Absence by Frances Anne Kemble (18091893) |
| | Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel (c. 17341769) |
| | Daisy by Francis Thompson (18591907) |
| | Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794?1845) |
| | What ails this heart o mine? by Susanna Blamire (17471794) |
| | Loves Memory by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | AbsenceAnonymous |
| | Thinkin Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) (18661902) |
| | Tears, idle tears by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb (17751834) |
| | Come to me, dearest by Joseph Brenan (18281857) |
| | The Wife to her HusbandAnonymous |
| | My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Collins Foster (18261864) |
| | Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster (18261864) |
| | The Present Good by William Cowper (17311800) |
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III. Adversity |
| | Man by Walter Savage Landor (17751864) |
| | The World by Francis Bacon (15611626) |
| | Moan, moan, ye dying gales by Henry Neele (17981828) |
| | The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles (15921644) |
| | Blow, blow, thou winter wind by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | The Wail of Prometheus Bound by Æschylus (c. 525456 B.C.) |
| | Samson on His Blindness by John Milton (16081674) |
| | Lines: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares by Chidiock Tichborne (15631586) |
| | Hence, all ye vain delights by John Fletcher (15791625) |
| | The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | The Approach of Age by George Crabbe (17541832) |
| | Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822) |
| | Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats (17951821) |
| | Perished by Mary Louise Ritter |
| | Latest Verses by Lord Byron (17881824) |
| | A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter (18251864) |
| | The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes (18091894) |
| | A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822) |
| | What can an old man do but die? by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | Over the hill to the poor-house by Will Carleton (18451912) |
| | Old by Ralph Hoyt (18061878) |
| | The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes (18091894) |
| | The Last Leaf by Alexander Pushkin (17991837) |
| | The Old Vagabond by Pierre Jean de Béranger (17801857) |
| | The Beggar by Thomas Moss (17401808) |
| | A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter by Charles Kingsley (18191875) |
| | They are dear fish to meAnonymous |
| | Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother by Amanda M. Edmond (18241862) |
| | The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | The Paupers Drive by Thomas Noel (17991861) |
| | Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis (18061867) |
| | Beautiful Snow by John Whitaker Watson (18241890) |
| | London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (18091885) |
| | The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | Guilty, or Not Guilty?Anonymous |
| | The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (18021838) |
| | Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
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IV. Comfort and Cheer |
| | To Myself by Paul Fleming (16091640) |
| | The Flower by George Herbert (15931633) |
| | Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton (16081674) |
| | Invictus by William Ernest Henley (18491903) |
| | Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle (17891834) |
| | Sad is our youth, for it is ever going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere (18141902) |
| | My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson (18201898) |
| | The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | Times go by turns by Robert Southwell (c. 15611595) |
| | Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch (18131892) |
| | The Changed Cross by Mrs. Charles Hobart |
| | Something Beyond by Mary (Clemmer) (Ames) Hudson (18391884) |
| | Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough (18191861) |
| | Gods Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich (16331714) |
| | Sonnet: While yet these tears have power to flow by Louise Labé (c. 15201566) |
| | Waiting by John Burroughs (18371921) |
| | Aunt Philliss Guest by William Channing Gannett (18401923) |
| | Ilka blade o grass keps its ain drap o dew by James Ballantine (18081877) |
| | Unchanging by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (18191892) |
| | I Hold Still by Julius Sturm (18161896) |
| | The Good, Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) |
| | When my ship comes in by Robert Jones Burdette (18441914) |
| | Never Despair by William Smith OBrien (18031864) |
| | The Saddest FateAnonymous |
| | The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood (18361900) |
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V. Death and Bereavement |
| | Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (17871874) |
| | Soliloquy on Death by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Sic Vita by Henry King (15921669) |
| | Death the Leveller by James Shirley (15961666) |
| | Virtue Immortal by George Herbert (15931633) |
| | Mans Mortality by Simon Wastell (c. 15661632) |
| | Mortality by William Knox (17891825) |
| | The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (17931835) |
| | The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (18361919) |
| | A Picture of Death by Lord Byron (17881824) |
| | The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge (18311905) |
| | Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant (17941878) |
| | A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill (18411887) |
| | Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (18261887) |
| | The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias of Rhodes (fl. 300 B.C.) |
| | Inscription on Melrose AbbeyAnonymous |
| | On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont (15841616) |
| | Elegy written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (17161771) |
| | Gods Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing (18181901) |
| | The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell (18291914) |
| | Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy (18421918) |
| | The Dead by Mathilde Blind (18411896) |
| | On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers (18431901) |
| | The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie (18091895) |
| | The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin (18091864) |
| | The First Snow-Fall by James Russell Lowell (18191891) |
| | The Morning-Glory by Maria (White) Lowell (18211853) |
| | The Widows Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson (18211895) |
| | Are the children at home? by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (18381912) |
| | Jims Kids by Eugene Field (18501895) |
| | The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | On Anne Allen by Edward Fitzgerald (18091883) |
| | Sonnet: Yea, Love is strong as life by Lady Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy Lindsay (18441912) |
| | Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand (17681848) |
| | The Death-Bed by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | A Death-Bed by James Aldrich (18101856) |
| | Requiescat by Matthew Arnold (18221888) |
| | The Unillumined Verge by Robert Bridges (18441930) |
| | Coronach by Sir Walter Scott (17711832) |
| | Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning (18121889) |
| | Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) |
| | Thy braes were bonny by John Logan (17481788) |
| | Farewell to thee, Arabys daughter by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | Softly woo away her breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (17871874) |
| | She died in beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery (18071837) |
| | The Death of Minnehaha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
| | Fear no more the heat o the sun by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Highland Mary by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | Fair HelenAnonymous |
| | Oh that t were possible by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (18261887) |
| | After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston (18501887) |
| | Lament for Heliodore by Meleager of Gadara (1st Century B.C.) |
| | On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I. by Marguerite de Valois (15531615) |
| | To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | Minstrels Song by Thomas Chatterton (17527#150;1770) |
| | The Passage by Ludwig Uhland (17871862) |
| | Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin Sheridan (18071867) |
| | Home they brought her warrior dead by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | The King of Denmarks Ride by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (18081877) |
| | Grief by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Selections from In Memoriam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | Après by Arthur Joseph Munby (18281910) |
| | The fairest thing in mortal eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans (13941465) |
| | Break, break, break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | LavenderAnonymous |
| | What of the Darkness? by Richard Le Gallienne (18661947) |
| | Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott (18611944) |
| | When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed by Walt Whitman (18191892) |
| | If I should die to-night by Belle E. Smith |
| | Awakening by Washington Gladden (18361918) |
| | Beyond the smiling and the weeping by Horatius Bonar (18081889) |
| | The Land o the Leal by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (17661845) |
| | Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle (18261863) |
| | Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson (18301885) |
| | Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) |
| | Thalatta! Thalatta! by Joseph Brownlee Brown (18241888) |
| | The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
| | Prospice by Robert Browning (18121889) |
| | I would not live alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg (17961877) |
| | Farewell by Walter Savage Landor (17751864) |
| | Love and Death by Margaret Deland (18571945) |
| | To DeathAnonymous |
| | Asleep! asleep! by Lucy Ann Bennett (18501927) |
| | Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland (18321864) |
| | In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne (18301886) |
| | Hush! by Julia C. R. Dorr (18251913) |
| | Life by Anna Letitia Barbauld (17431825) |
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VI. Consolation |
| | The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) |
| | They are all gone by Henry Vaughan (16211695) |
| | The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (18311919) |
| | Over the River by Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest Wakefield (18361870) |
| | Grief for the DeadAnonymous |
| | The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick (18401904) |
| | For Charlies Sake by John Williamson Palmer (18251906) |
| | Watching for PapaAnonymous |
| | My Child by John Pierpont (17851866) |
| | Song: She s somewhere in the sunlight strong by Richard Le Gallienne (18661947) |
| | The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | Only a year by Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) |
| | Blessed are They that Mourn by William Cullen Bryant (17941878) |
| | De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
| | Blessed are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (18401918) |
| | Lines to the Memory of Annie by Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) |
| | Death in Youth by Philip James Bailey (18161902) |
| | In Memoriam F. A. S. by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
| | Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (18401918) |
| | Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
| | The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold (18321904) |
| | PeaceAnonymous |
| | Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | Happy are the dead by Henry Vaughan (16211695) |
| | The green grass under the snow by Annie A. Preston |
| | The Conquerors Grave by William Cullen Bryant (17941878) |
| | Thou art gone to the grave by Reginald Heber (17831826) |
| | Lycidas by John Milton (16081674) |
| | After Death in Arabia by From the Arabic |
| | It is not death to die by George Washington Bethune (18051862) |
| | There is no death by J. L. McCreery |
| | Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks (18301908) |
| | Blind by Israel Zangwill (18641926) |
| | The Death of Death by William Shakespeare (15641616) |