Elegies & Grief

The verse of mourning and remembrance — elegies, laments, and the consolations poetry offers when nothing else will.

The poems we read at the graveside

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• De Profundis (Westminster Sermons)
• Poppies on Ludlow Castle
• A God in Pain
• Elegy on Mistress Boulstred
• Old Ireland
• Love in her Cold Grave Lies
• The Farewell
• To Princess Kaiulani
• Death in Life
• Amatory Lines
• Hymn to Priapus
• The Descent of Odin
• The Hen and the Vipers
• In Memoriam
• I am he that Aches with Love
• Julia
• Revenants Des Enfants
• Good Bye
• Logs on the Hearth. a Memory of a Sister
• Queen Mary: A Drama
• 1861
• Asleep
• The Widower's Lullaby
• Lancelot and Elaine
• Hushaby, Sweet my Own
• Medieval Eventide Song
• In the Character of a Ruined Farmer
• Winter: a Dirge
• Raging Fortune: Fragment of Song
• Poor Mailie's Elegy
• Epitaph on my own Friend and my Father's Friend, Wm. Muir in Tarbolton Mill
• Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father
• Lines on the Author's Death
• Man was Made to Mourn: a Dirge
• Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux
• To a Mountain Daisy
• To Ruin
• On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies
• A Bard's Epitaph
• Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq
• Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq
• Farewell Song to the Banks of Ayr
• Tam Samson's Elegy
• Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet
• Inscribed under Fergusson's Portrait
• Elegy on "Stella"
• On the Death of John M'Leod, Esq
• Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
• Strathallan's Lament
• Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787
• On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston
• Raving Winds Around her Blowing
• The Chevalier's Lament
• A Mother's Lament
• Elegy on the Year 1788
• The Wounded Hare
• Highland Harry Back Again
• To Mary in Heaven
• Elegy on Willie Nicol's Mare
• Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson
• On the Birth of a Posthumous Child
• Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
• Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, on the Approach of Spring
• There'll Never be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
• Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
• Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, Bart
• Lines on Fergusson, the Poet
• Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell
• Inscription at Friars' Carse Hermitage
• The Reaper and the Flowers
• Footsteps of Angels
• Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
• Burial of the Minnisink
• Resignation
• The Open Window
• Tegnér's Drapa
• The Warden of the Cinque Ports
• The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
• Hawthorne
• The Haunted Chamber
• The Meeting
• Three Friends of Mine
• Keats
• A Nameless Grave
• In the Churchyard at Tarrytown
• Parker Cleaveland
• The Cross of Snow
• Charles Sumner
• Vittoria Colonna
• Delia
• Bayard Taylor
• The Chamber over the Gate
• Robert Burns
• The Burial of the Poet
• Auf Wiedersehen
• To the Avon
• President Garfield
• Decoration Day
• Coplas De Manrique
• The Dead
• The Castle by the Sea
• The Two Locks of Hair
• Consolation
• A Dirge
• Remember
• An End
• A Peal of Bells
• Sound Sleep
• When I am Dead, my Dearest
• Rest
• The Poor Ghost
• Songs in a Cornfield
• The Ghost's Petition
• Eve
• Dead Hope
• My Friend
• One Sea-Side Grave
• Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
• Adonais
• The Sunset

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