On Death

Philosophy and literature facing mortality — from the Stoics and Montaigne to Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyich, the great meditations on the end.

The one certainty, contemplated

In this collection

• Vision
• Released
• The Coward
• Reluctance
• And Death Shall have no Dominion
• Danger Cliff, and Other Stories: A Bit of Logic
• The Two Founts
• Sweetest Love, I do not Go
• Plexus
• White Nights
• Residue
• What will they do?
• The Hours of Sleep
• The Lay-Man's Sermon Upon the Late Storm
• To the Husbandman
• The Dewy Morn
• To a Strange God
• Polikushka
• The Face Called Forgiveness
• The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Versified
• Prayer, in the Prospect of Death
• Stanzas, on the same Occasion
• Man was Made to Mourn: a Dirge
• To Ruin
• Elegy on "Stella"
• The Fall of the Leaf
• Written in Friar's-Carse Hermitage (Second Version)
• New Year's Day
• The Song of Death
• Suspiria
• In the Churchyard at Cambridge
• Morituri Salutamus
• Nature
• Haroun Al Raschid
• Victor and Vanquished
• Coplas De Manrique
• Some Day, some Day
• Come, o Death, so Silent Flying
• The Dead
• Song of the Silent Land
• The Grave
• The Soul's Complaint against the Body
• At Home
• After Death
• Wife to Husband
• When I am Dead, my Dearest
• One Certainty
• Sweet Death
• A Testimony
• Sleep at Sea
• Mother Country
• Beauty is Vain
• The Bourne
• Life and Death
• Gone Forever
• Days of Vanity
• After this the Judgment
• Mirrors of Life and Death
• Death-Watches
• Golden Silences
• Fluttered Wings
• Passing and Glassing
• An "Immurata" Sister
• Love is Strong as Death
• Birchington Churchyard
• On Death
• A Summer Evening Churchyard
• Fragment: ‘when a Lover Clasps his Fairest'
• Death is here and Death is There
• Ye Hasten to the Grave! what Seek Ye There
• Time
• Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
• Fragment: Life Rounded with Sleep
• A Dialogue
• To Death
• A Toccata of Galuppi's
• Any Wife to any Husband
• The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
• Cleon
• Prospice
• Apparent Failure
• Pisgah-Sights
• Jochanan Hakkadosh
• Epilogue to Asolando
• Death and the Unfortunate
• Death and the Woodman
• Death and the Dying
• The Hog, the Goat, and the Sheep
• The Old Man and the Three Young Ones
• Death in Venice

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