Loss & Grief Poems

Elegies, laments, and poems about mourning and absence.

362 poems in this category

Poems in Loss & Grief

Annabel Lee — by Edgar Allan Poe
Lenore — by Edgar Allan Poe
Break, Break, Break — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
A Lover's Complaint — by William Shakespeare
Bequest. — by Emily Dickinson
In Memoriam 3: O Sorrow, Cruel Fellowship — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit MDCCCXXXIII: 3. O Sorrow, cruel — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 7. Dark house, by which once more I s — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Mariana — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
Memoriam A. H. H.: 67. When on my bed the moonlight fall — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
A Dirge — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire) — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. — by Alexander Pope
Epitaph. Intended for Mr Rowe, in Westminster Abbey. — by Alexander Pope
Epitaph. on Charles Earl of Dorset, in the Church of Withyam, in Sussex. — by Alexander Pope
Epitaph. on Dr Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, Who Died in Exile at Paris, 1732. — by Alexander Pope
I lost a World -- the other day! — by Emily Dickinson
I never lost as much but twice — by Emily Dickinson
My life closed twice before its close -- — by Emily Dickinson
Adonais — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Burial of the Minnisink — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
Death leaves Us homesick, who behind, — by Emily Dickinson
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady — by Alexander Pope
Fare Thee Well — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Home Burial — by Robert Frost (1923)
How the Waters closed above Him — by Emily Dickinson
Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
'T was such a little, little boat — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862)
Claribel — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (Part I & II) — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evangeline: A Tale of the Acadie — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I know of people in the Grave — by Emily Dickinson
Michael's Sheepfold — by William Wordsworth (1800)
A Dirge — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
And Wilt Thou Weep When I Am Low? — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Evelyn Hope — by Robert Browning
Mother and Poet — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
At Home — by Christina Rossetti
Child of a Day — by Walter Savage Landor
Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair — by Robert Burns
Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded — by Thomas Moore
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
It Is Not the Tear At This Moment Shed — by Thomas Moore
Lines: 'When the Lamp Is Shattered' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord Gregory: A Ballad — by Robert Burns
Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Oh! Breathe Not His Name — by Thomas Moore
A great Hope fell — by Emily Dickinson
Epitaph upon a Child that died — by Robert Herrick
Footsteps of Angels — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gertrude of Wyoming — by Thomas Campbell
Glee! The great storm is over! — by Emily Dickinson
Graves of Infants — by John Clare
Heroic Stanzas — by John Dryden
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Is it Well with the Child? — by Christina Rossetti
Monody On The Death Of Chatterton — by Sara Teasdale (1790)
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France — by Alan Seeger
A Land Dirge — by J. Webster (null)
And this of all my Hopes — by Emily Dickinson
Has Summer Come Without the Rose? — by ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY
Lament for Chaucer — by Thomas Hoccleve
My feet are at Moorgate — by John Keats
A Baby's Death — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Ballad of Death — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot, — by Emily Dickinson
Absent Place -- an April Day -- — by Emily Dickinson
An Epitaph Upon A Child — by Robert Herrick
And ask ye why these sad tears stream? — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Ashes of Soldiers. — by Walt Whitman
Bartolome's Curse — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bertram and Anna — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Claribel — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
Dirge Of Love — by William Shakespeare
Epitaph. on James Craggs, Esq. in Westminster Abbey. — by Alexander Pope
Epitaph. on Mr Gay, in Westminster Abbey, 1732. — by Alexander Pope
First Known When Lost — by Edward Thomas
God Gave To Me A Child In Part — by Robert Louis Stevenson
He told a homely tale — by Emily Dickinson
Hermione's Lament — by Robert Browning
Holy Sonnet XVII: Since She Whom I Loved — by John Donne
I got so I could take his name — by Emily Dickinson
In Memory — by Joyce Kilmer
Monody to the Memory of Chatterton — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Oh! Weep for Those — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E. — by Phillis Wheatley
A Pæan — by Edgar Allan Poe
A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C. — by Andrew Marvell
An Epitaph On A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel — by Ben Jonson
An Ode to Master Endymion Porter, Upon His Brother's Death — by Robert Herrick
Banquo — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Christmas treasures — by Eugene Field
Epitaph. on the Hon. Simon Harcourt, Only Son of the Lord Chancellor — by Alexander Pope
Had I presumed to hope -- — by Emily Dickinson
I have a Bird in spring — by Emily Dickinson
Invocation to Misery — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Little Boy Lost — by Christina Rossetti (1789)
Monody on the Death of Chatterton. [1790-1834.] — by Sara Teasdale (1790)
A Bard's Epitaph — by Christina Rossetti (1787)
A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death — by Robert Burns
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton — by James Thomson
Almost! — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bereavement — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Comfort To A Youth That Had Lost His Love — by Robert Herrick
Epitaph on a Beloved Friend — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epitaph. on Edmund Duke of Buckingham, Who Died in the Nineteenth Year of — by Alexander Pope
Funeral Of Youth, The: Threnody — by Rupert Brooke
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire — by Katherine Philips
La Passion Vaincue — by Anne Kingsmill Finch
Mary - A Ballad — by Robert Southey
Moriens Superstiti. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
Now I knew I lost her -- — by Emily Dickinson
Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive — by Robert Burns
Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Dirge — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Farewell — by Amy Levy
A Lament — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epitaph on an Infant. ('Ere Sin could blight.') — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
Epitaph. on the Monument of the Honourable Egbert Digby, and His Sister — by Alexander Pope
Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Adonis — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Bion — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment on Keats — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: 'My Head Is Wild With Weeping' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment. Written Shortly After the Marriage of Miss Chaworth — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Herod's Lament for Mariamne — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Memory of F.P. — by Katherine Philips
Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
On a Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Fragment: 'The Death Knell Is Ringing' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: 'The Rude Wind Is Singing' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A loss of something ever felt I -- — by Emily Dickinson
A Song Before Grief — by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
A Tale of Woe and Strife — by Edward Fitzgerald
Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe! — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Death — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elegy to the Memory of David Garrick, Esq. — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Epitaph on her Son H. P. — by Katherine Philips
Eveline — by Robert Herrick
Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lines Written Beneath a Picture — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Melancholy. A Fragment. [MS. _Letter_, Aug. 26,1802.] — by Sara Teasdale (1802)
Memory — by William Browne
Nous n’irons plus au bois — by William Butler Yeats (1875)
A Pang is more conspicuous in Spring — by Emily Dickinson
Anna And Harland — by Sara Teasdale (1790)
Bereavement in their death to feel — by Emily Dickinson
By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Elegy to the Memory of Werter — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Falada, Falada, there thou hangest! — by Coventry Patmore
Falada, Falada, there thou hangest! (repeated) — by Coventry Patmore
From the Land of Mist and Snow — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
La Revanche — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Morienti Superstes. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
Newstead Abbey — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Land Dirge — by William Shakespeare
An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen — by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
Ashes of Roses — by null
Ashes of Roses — by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN
Brother of All, with Generous Hand. — by Walt Whitman
Byron’s Poems — by Robert Herrick
Canto Vi — by William Wordsworth (2006)
Elegy: Imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-verse Inscriptions. [(No.) III.] — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
Ii. Bequest. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
La Coz — by Edgar Allan Poe
Lines in Praise of Professor Blackie — by William Topaz McGonagall
Little Popeet - the Lost Child — by William Topaz McGonagall
Marthy's younkit — by Eugene Field
On a Discovery made too late. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
A Farewell — by Coventry Patmore
A Tale of Christmas Eve — by William Topaz McGonagall
Burning of the Exeter Theatre — by William Topaz McGonagall
El Canario Se Muere — by Edgar Allan Poe
El Niño Tonto — by Edgar Allan Poe
Jorinda and Jorindel — by Coventry Patmore
Absence. — by Anonymous
HENRY AND ELIZA — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
How awful! — by Sara Teasdale (1913)
IMOGEN — by Walter de la Mare (null)
KARINTHA — by Claude McKay (1923)
Lament for Chaucer — by John Lydgate (1400)
LINES, WRITTEN ON THE SIXTH OF SEPTEMBER. — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Madrigal — by William Shakespeare (null)
Oh dear! — by Sara Teasdale (1913)
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life [Prince and Princess of Wales]. [MS _Letter_, July 4, 1796] — by Sara Teasdale (1796)
On Fanny Godwin — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
On His Deceased Wife — by John Milton
On receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death was Inevitable. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and Very Dear to Him — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On The Death Of J. C. An Infant — by Phillis Wheatley
On the Death of Lord Nelson — by James Weldon Johnson (1808)
On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic — by Samuel Johnson
On the Death of Robert Browning — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
On the Death of the Duke of Dorset — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne — by Anne Kingsmill Finch
On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell — by Phillis Wheatley
On the Funeral of Charles the First — by William Lisle Bowles
On The Loss Of The Royal George — by William Cowper
On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 — by John Milton
One Struggle More, and I Am Free — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Only God -- detect the Sorrow -- — by Emily Dickinson
Ourselves were wed one summer -- dear -- — by Emily Dickinson
Pain has an element of blank; — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862)
Pain. — by Sara Teasdale (1796)
Poems Described In The Text — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Poems from 1797 — by Sara Teasdale (1797)
Redacción — by Edgar Allan Poe
Remember Thee! Remember Thee! — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Remembrance — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Remembrance — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Requiescat — by Oscar Wilde (1881)
Robbed by Death -- but that was easy -- — by Emily Dickinson
Rose Aylmer — by Walter Savage Landor
Roses and Rue — by Lewis Carroll
Roses And Rue — by Oscar Wilde
Second Stanza — by Robert Herrick
Sickness and Absence — by Robert W. Service (null)
Sister Rosa: A Ballad — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Snow beneath whose chilly softness — by Emily Dickinson
So give me back to Death -- — by Emily Dickinson
Some, too fragile for winter winds — by Emily Dickinson
Song — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song of the Indian Maid, from 'Endymion' — by John Keats
Song—To Mary in Heaven — by Robert Burns
Sonnet 34 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 72: O! lest the world should task you to recite — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 87 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet LIV: Yet Read at Last — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet LXXI — by William Shakespeare
SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MRS. CHARLOTTE SMITH. — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Sonnet XLIX — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXIX: Farewell, Ye Tow'ring Cedars — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Sonnet XXXV: What Means the Mist — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Sonnet, on a distinct occasion — by William Wordsworth (1800)
SONNET. NIGHT. — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Sorrow — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sorrow — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tears — by Edward Thomas
The Albion Battleship Calamity — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Arab’s Farewell to his Steed — by Robert Herrick
The Ballad of Oriana — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
The Banks o' Doon — by Robert Burns (1793)
The Beggar — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
The Bridge of Sighs — by Thomas Hood
The Chase — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Cherry Trees — by Edward Thomas
The Child And The Flower. — by Anonymous
The Clepington Catastrophe — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Complaint of Ninathóma. — by Sara Teasdale (1793)
The Cuckoo — by Edward Thomas
The Dead Birds — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Death of Cromwell — by Andrew Marvell
The Death of Fred Marsden, the American Playwright — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Death Of Richard Wagner — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Death of the Starling. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
THE DEATH-DREAM — by Walter de la Mare (null)
The Dying Swan — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
The Faded Flower — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Flitting — by John Clare
The Funeral — by John Donne
The Funeral of the German Emperor — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Funeral of the Late Ex-Provost Rough, Dundee — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Funeral of the Late Prince Henry of Battenberg — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Funeral of Youth: Threnody — by Rupert Brooke
The Funeral Rites Of The Rose — by Robert Herrick
The Happiest Day — by Edgar Allan Poe
The Haunted House — by Thomas Hood
The Hero — by Wilfred Owen (1916)
The Hope Of My Heart — by John McCrae
The Late Sir John Ogilvy — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Leaden Echo — by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1882)
The Legend of the Crossbill — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851)
The Little Boy Lost — by Robert Browning
The Little Boy Lost — by William Blake
The Little Cripple's Complaint — by Ann Taylor
The Little Girl Was Dead — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1907)
The Little Match Girl — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Loss Of The Eurydice — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Loss of the Victoria — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Lost Friend — by Amy Levy
The Lost Pilot — by Edward Taylor
The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love — by William Butler Yeats (1908)
The Maid of Jerusalem — by John Clare
The Mother's Lament. — by Anonymous
The Mystery Of Pain. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ocean said to me once — by Stephen Crane
The Patriot: An Old Story — by Robert Browning
The Pauper's Funeral — by Robert Southey
THE PHANTOM — by Walter de la Mare (null)
The Poet's Death — by John Clare
The pretty Rain from those sweet Eaves — by Emily Dickinson
The Princess: A Medley: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Rainy Day — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Raven — by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven — by William Ernest Henley (1845)
The Raven — by Robert Burns
The Raven — by Oscar Wilde (1845)
The Raven. [MS. S. T. C.] — by Sara Teasdale (1797)
The Runaway — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
The Sigh. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
The Sleeper — by Edgar Allan Poe
The Slumber Did My Spirit Steal — by William Wordsworth (1800)
The Song of Fionnuala — by Thomas Moore
The Sorrows of the Blind — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Tower of Famine — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Triumph Of Death — by William Shakespeare
The Voice You Cannot Hear — by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877)
The Wife a-Lost — by William Barnes
The Wish — by Anacreon
The Young that Died in Beauty — by William Barnes
There is a pain -- so utter -- — by Emily Dickinson
They say that "Time assuages" -- — by Emily Dickinson
Thyrsis, a Monody — by Matthew Arnold
Time and Grief — by William Lisle Bowles
Tis the Last Rose of Summer — by Thomas Moore
To a Blackbird and His Mate Who Died in the Spring — by Joyce Kilmer
To A Friend Lost — by Christina Rossetti (1854)
To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister — by Phillis Wheatley
To a Lady — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To a Lady and Her Children — by Phillis Wheatley
To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband — by Phillis Wheatley
To A Lady On The Death Of The Three Relations — by Phillis Wheatley
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre. — by Sara Teasdale (1797)
To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence. — by Sara Teasdale (1797)
To D-- — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick — by Robert Herrick
To Mary — by Christina Rossetti (1792)
To Mary Shelley — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Mary Who Died in This Opinion — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death Of His Daughter — by Phillis Wheatley
To The Lady Crewe, Upon The Death Of Her Child — by Robert Herrick
To the Memory of Henry Welles Livingston — by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
To The Memory Of Mr Oldham — by John Dryden
To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy who died Dec:r 16 -- my Birthday. — by Jane Austen
To the Memory of Sarah Livingston — by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
To The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew — by John Dryden
To Thyrza — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To---- — by Edgar Allan Poe
Translation From Catullus. Lugete Veneres Cupidinesque (Carm. III.) — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Ulalume — by Edgar Allan Poe
Unreturning. — by Emily Dickinson
Untitled Poem — by Rudyard Kipling (1897)
Upon A Child — by Robert Herrick
Upon A Child That Died — by Robert Herrick
Upon His Sister-In-Law, Mistress Elizabethherrick — by Robert Herrick
Upon The Loss Of His Mistresses — by Robert Herrick
Waly, Waly — by Anonymous
We Have Been Friends Together — by Christina Rossetti (1854)
We Never Said Farewell — by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly — by Oliver Goldsmith
When Shall I Cease To Know? — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1856)
When We Two Parted — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Winter. — by Alexander Pope
Witchcraft was hung, in History, — by Emily Dickinson
Xxiii. Unreturning. — by Emily Dickinson
Xxviii. — by Emily Dickinson (1862)
You left me, sweet, two legacies, — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)