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Death

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Lxiii. after the death of vittoria colonna

AFTER SUNSET.Be' mi dove'. Well might I in those days so fortunate, What...

Michelangelo

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LXXIV. First Reading

A PRAYER FOR GRACE IN DEATH.S' avvien che spesso. What though strong love of...

Michelangelo

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Sonnet XIV. On The Religious Memory Of Mrs. Catharine Thomson, My Christian Friend, Deceas'd...

When Faith and Love which parted from thee never, Had ripen'd thy just soul...

John Milton

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book III - Part 05 - Cerberus And Furies, And That Lack Of Light

Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surge Of horrible heat- the which...

Lucretius

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On The Death Of The Rev. Mr. Peele

Let Fame her trophies to Ambition raise, Of monumental and historic praise;...

Elizabeth Bentley

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Sailing to Byzantium

That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the...

W. B. Yeats

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Because I could not stop for Death

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage...

Emily Dickinson

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It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there...

Edgar Allan Poe

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O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every...

Walt Whitman

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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with...

W. H. Auden

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