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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

1. Thyrsis: A Monody by Matthew Arnold
2. Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the 'Prometheus Unbound' by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
3. On the Death of Mr. Crashaw by Abraham Cowley
4. An Epitaph by Walter De La Mare

   beauty passes

5. Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836

6. On Prew His Maid by Robert Herrick
7. Unto one who lies at rest by Helen Hunt Jackson

   'Neath the sunset, in the West,
   Clover-blossoms on her breast.
   

8. On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet by Samuel Johnson
9. On My First Son by Ben Jonson
10. On My First Daughter by Ben Jonson
11. Lycidas by John Milton
12. To Oliver Cromwell by John Milton
13. Margaret Love Peacock, for her tombstone by Thomas Love Peacock
14. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley