Time & Memory Poems

Reflections on the passage of time, nostalgia, and remembrance.

216 poems in this category

Poems in Time & Memory

Locksley Hall — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1842)
Locksley Hall — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
A Dream Within A Dream — by Edgar Allan Poe
It is not Always May — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
Like Some Old fashioned Miracle — by Emily Dickinson
My Lost Youth — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Dead Rose — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Adlestrop — by Edward Thomas
Carillon — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dirge for the Year — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nuremberg — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (19th Century)
Obermann Once More — by Matthew Arnold
Bill and Joe — by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Farewell! -- But Whenever You Welcome the Hour — by Thomas Moore
How Soon Hath Time — by John Milton
In A Library. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In Youth is Pleasure — by Richard Edwardes
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
A Reflection — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
Autumn — by Walter Savage Landor
Ode on Venice — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Ode to Naples — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Birthday Song. To S. G. — by Sidney Lanier
A Gleam Of Sunshine — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Autumn Within — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 — by Robert Burns
Consulting summer's clock, — by Emily Dickinson
February Afternoon — by Edward Thomas
Holidays — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Memory — by Rupert Brooke
From “Later Life” — by Christina Rossetti
Full of Life, Now. — by Walt Whitman
Gone, Gone Again — by Edward Thomas
If Sometimes in the Haunts of Men — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
March the Third (the Author's Birthday) — by Edward Thomas
Ode Written On The First Of January — by Robert Southey
'Twas here my summer paused — by Emily Dickinson
A Hall, Hall — by John Milton
A Memory — by William Allingham
A Roman Echo — by Wilfred Owen
As Sleigh Bells seem in summer — by Emily Dickinson
Autumn And Winter — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Between the Dusk of a Summer Night — by William Ernest Henley
Burning Drift-Wood — by John Greenleaf Whittier
Carisbrooke Castle — by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1885)
Celandine — by Edward Thomas
Childish Recollections — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
How happy I was if I could forget — by Emily Dickinson
I Never Saw That Land Before — by Edward Thomas
Later life — by Christina Rossetti
Now is Past — by John Clare
Of the Inconstancy of our Actions — by Edna St. Vincent Millay
7 — by Walt Whitman
An Exile's Farewell — by Adam Lindsay Gordon
Lines Written in an Album, at Malta — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lines Written on a Blank Leaf of _the Pleasures of Memory_ — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806 — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Come hither, child — by Emily Bronte
Fragment: The Sepulchre of Memory — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
How at Once — by Edward Thomas
I Saw From the Beach — by Thomas Moore
Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Ode to the Departing Year. — by Sara Teasdale (1796)
All My Past Life... — by John Wilmot
December 31 — by S.E. Kiser
Holidays — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
Imitations: Ad Lyram. (Casimir, Book II, Ode 3.) — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
Memory — by Anne Bronte
Lines: Written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the 'Man of Ross'. — by Sara Teasdale (1834)
"Might Have Been" — by Grantland Rice
A Dream — by Edgar Allan Poe
A Lingering Glory — by Wilfred Owen
A Lingering Thought — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
A Memory's Echo — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
Farewell Address at the Argyle Hall — by William Topaz McGonagall
Farewell to Ravelrig — by James Thomson
My Last Dance — by Julia Ward Howe
A Fragment — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Summary History of Lord Clive — by William Topaz McGonagall
Absence. A Farewell Ode on quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
Al Mirante — by Edgar Allan Poe
El Tío De Las Vistas — by Edgar Allan Poe
L'AMITIÉ, Est L'AMOUR Sans Ailes — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
"Ne'er was ought yet at first contriv'd so fit" — by Thomas Gray
FOREBODING — by Walter de la Mare (null)
IMPERIA — by Walter de la Mare (null)
John Sterling — by Edgar Lee Masters (1851)
MISS LOO — by Walter de la Mare (1914)
On Finding a Fan — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On Leaving Newstead Abbey — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On Music — by Thomas Moore
On Revisiting Harrow — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
On Time — by John Milton
One Year ago -- jots what? — by Emily Dickinson
Or from that Sea of Time. — by Walt Whitman
Over the Hills — by Edward Thomas
Ozymandias — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Parting — by Edward Thomas
Pignus Amoris — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Poems from 1800 — by Sara Teasdale (1800)
Poems of 1791 — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
Poems of 1794 — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
Post Mortem — by William Shakespeare
Protus — by Robert Browning
Quae Nocent Docent — by Sara Teasdale
Remembrance — by William Shakespeare
Remembrance of Collins — by William Wordsworth (1789)
Remembrances — by John Clare
Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Remorse -- is Memory -- awake -- — by Emily Dickinson
Ring Out, Wild Bells — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Rome Unvisited — by Oscar Wilde (1881)
Ruins of Rome, by Bellay — by Edmund Spenser
SCENE 2.--_The Land of Memory_. — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sonnet — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sonnet 12 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 16 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 19 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 2 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 30 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 30 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 5 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 59 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 63 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 65 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 73 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 74 — by William Shakespeare (null)
Sonnet 74: But be contented: when that fell arrest — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LVIII: In Former Times — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet LXXIV — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXVII — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXXI — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet VIII: There's Nothing Grieves Me — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XVII: Stay, Speedy Time — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet: On quitting School for College. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
Sonnets/XXXII — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Speed's Demand — by Robert Frost (1857)
Stanza — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stanzas Written in Passing the Ambracian Gulf — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Sun of the Sleepless! — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Suspense. — by Emily Dickinson
The Ballad of the Green Beret — by George Herbert
The Barn — by Edward Thomas
The Belfry Of Bruges — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Bridge — by Edward Thomas
The Canterbury Tales. The Man of Law's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Capitoline Hill — by Wilfred Owen
The Child In The House — by William Blake
The Coliseum — by Edgar Allan Poe
The Daguerreotype — by William Vaughn Moody
The Days That Might Have Been — by Grantland Rice
The Death of Calmar and Orla. an Imitation of MacPherson's "Ossian" — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Faded Flower. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
The Girt Woak Tree — by William Barnes
The Last Ray — by Wilfred Owen
The Mill-Water — by Edward Thomas
The Moods — by William Butler Yeats (1908)
The Old Clock On The Stairs — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Old Man Dreams — by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Old Year — by John Clare
The Past — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812 — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Secret. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of the Bell — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1841)
The Song of Yesterday — by James Whitcomb Riley
The Sun-Dial — by Austin Dobson (1874)
The Three Roses — by Walter Savage Landor
The Tribute Received — by Wilfred Owen
The Weary Traveler — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
The Word — by Edward Thomas
The Wrong Way Home — by Edward Taylor
There Was a Cherry-Tree — by James Whitcomb Riley
There Was a Time — by Edward Thomas
Those Evening Bells — by Amy Lowell (1865)
Through those old Grounds of memory, — by Emily Dickinson
THULE — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Time — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Time and Love — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Time Long Past — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a Portrait — by Arthur Symons
To An Old Danish Song-Book — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
To Edward Noel Long, Esq — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To flee from memory — by Emily Dickinson
To Jane: The Recollection — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Memory — by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
To Mr C., St James's Place. — by Alexander Pope
To Zante — by Edgar Allan Poe
Too happy Time dissolves itself — by Emily Dickinson
Tradition, thou art for suckling children — by Stephen Crane
Translation of Wrangham's 'Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram'. — by Sara Teasdale (1790)
Two Hundred Years After — by Wilfred Owen (1916)
Under the Woods — by Edward Thomas
Unnamed Lands. — by Walt Whitman
Urbs Sacra Æterna — by Oscar Wilde (1881)
Variant 3 — by William Wordsworth (1836)
We should not mind so small a flower — by Emily Dickinson
We talked as Girls do -- — by Emily Dickinson
What man — by John Milton
When Memory is full — by Emily Dickinson
XVI. Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn — by Emily Dickinson
Yesterday is History, — by Emily Dickinson
Youth And Age — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge