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Subject - Memorials
Poetry seems to be a natural way to capture some thoughts
and memories we have about loved ones.
Poetry is the tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes. - Carl Sandburg
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Thyrsis: A Monody
by Matthew Arnold
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Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the 'Prometheus Unbound'
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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On the Death of Mr. Crashaw
by Abraham Cowley
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An Epitaph
by Walter De La Mare
beauty passes
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Concord Hymn
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836
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On Prew His Maid
by Robert Herrick
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Unto one who lies at rest
by Helen Hunt Jackson
'Neath the sunset, in the West,
Clover-blossoms on her breast.
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On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
by Samuel Johnson
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On My First Son
by Ben Jonson
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On My First Daughter
by Ben Jonson
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Lycidas
by John Milton
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To Oliver Cromwell
by John Milton
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Margaret Love Peacock, for her tombstone
by Thomas Love Peacock
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Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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