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    Poems of Solace and Remembrance
    Poems of Solace and Remembrance
    Poems of Solace and Remembrance
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    Poems of Solace and Remembrance

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    "Death, be not proud," declared John Donne, "though some have called thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so … " The seventeenth-century poet's expression of faith has consoled countless readers. It appears in this outstanding compilation of inspirational verse along with 90 poems, by more than 60 great English and American writers, dating from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
    These works include the familiar words of famous poets as well as unforgettable verses by lesser-known writers. Selections range from Psalm 23 of the King James Bible to Henley's "Invictus," and Stevenson's "Requiem"; from Quarles's "A Good-Night" to Pope's "The Dying Christian to His Soul," Bryant's "Thanatopsis," and Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"; from Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" to Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas's powerful poem to his dying father, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Other featured poets include Shakespeare, Raleigh, Jonson, Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Browning, Whitman, Swinburne, Kipling, Frost, Millay, Dunbar, and Auden.
    This volume will be a consolation for anyone who has suffered loss; it also offers a rich treasury of moving and reflective verse, sure to appeal to any lover of fine English and American poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJun 10, 2014
    ISBN9780486110011
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      Poems of Solace and Remembrance - Dover Publications

      DOVER · THRIFT · EDITIONS

      Poems of Solace

      and Remembrance

      Edited by

      PAUL NEGRI

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      Mineola, New York

      DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

      GENERAL EDITOR: PAUL NEGRI

      Dedicated in loving memory to

      Hayward Cirker

      I can not say, and I will not say,

      That he is dead—he is just away.

      —James Whitcomb Riley

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2001 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved

      Bibliographical Note

      Poems of Solace and Remembrance is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2001.

      International Standard Book Number

      eISBN-13: 978-0-486-11001-1

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      41584802     2014

      www.doverpublications.com

      Note

      Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak

      Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.

      Shakespeare, Macbeth

      Poets over the centuries have strived to give sorrow words and permit grief to speak in multifarious voices. Those suffering bereavement, loss, or travail have often found solace and comfort in sharing the feelings of others who have expressed their sorrow, love, faith, and remembrance in memorable verse.

      The poems in this concise volume span four centuries and display a rich variety of styles and sensibilities, from Walter Raleigh’s calm acceptance in Even Such Is Time to Dylan Thomas’s passionate defiance in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Included are works by such great English and American poets as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Whitman, Christina Rossetti, and Robert Frost, as well as poems by writers whose names are now generally forgotten, but who have struck in their verses the resonant chord common to the hearts of all who have suffered loss or contemplated the end of life.

      Whether read aloud at memorial services or read silently for personal inspiration, may these poems offer to all some measure of solace and the assurance that no one grieves alone.

      Acknowledgments

      W. H. Auden: Funeral Blues from W. H. Auden Collected Poems by W. H. Auden. Copyright © 1940 & renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd.

      Robert Frost: Acceptance from The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem, the Estate of Robert Frost and Jonathan Cape as publisher. Copyright © 1928, 1969 by Henry Holt and Co. © 1956 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC and The Random House Group Limited.

      Edna St. Vincent Millay: Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay. From Collected Poems, HarperCollins. Copyright © 1928, 1955 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, literary executor.

      John Masefield: A Song at Parting from The Poems and Plays of John Masefield by John Masefield. Reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of John Masefield.

      Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night from The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1952 by Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and David Higham Associates.

      Contents

      King James Bible

      Psalm 23 (The Lord is my shepherd)

      Walter Raleigh

      Even Such Is Time

      William Shakespeare

      Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth

      Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun

      John Donne

      Death, Be Not Proud

      Ben Jonson

      On My First Son

      Robert Herrick

      Eternity

      Francis Quarles

      A Good-Night

      George Herbert

      Virtue

      John Milton

      On Time

      Richard Crashaw

      An Epitaph Upon Husband and Wife

      Henry Vaughan

      They Are All Gone into the World of Light

      Peace

      Alexander Pope

      The Dying Christian to His Soul

      Ode on Solitude

      William Cowper

      Light Shining Out of Darkness

      William Wordsworth

      A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

      Walter Savage Landor

      I Strove with None

      Death

      Felicia Dorothea Hemans

      Dirge

      John Clare

      I Am

      William Cullen Bryant

      Thanatopsis

      To the Fringed Gentian

      Blessed Are They That Mourn

      Hartley Coleridge

      Early Death

      Thomas Hood

      The Death-Bed

      John Henry, Cardinal Newman

      Rest

      Thomas Lovell Beddoes

      Dirge

      Edgar Allan Poe

      To One in Paradise

      Sarah Flower Adams

      The Mourners Came at Break of Day

      Elizabeth Barrett Browning

      The

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