The Poetry Of Death

By Daniel Sheehan, Charles Hamilton Sorley and John Donne

Death is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread. Whether it is the actual end of our life’s journey or merely a transit point to Heavenly glory its actual point of impact is, obviously, life changing. But what do poets think of it? How do their minds tangle with the subject and make sense of this? That’s what we thought too. Poets as rich and diverse as Longfellow, Hood, Bronte, Burns and Gilbran here share their words, thoughts and visions with us. Death is unavoidable but the journey there should be as informed and enjoyable as possible. Many of these titles are on our audiobook version which can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780005331

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The Poetry Of Death

Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this volume we look at Death, the end of mortality.  Through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets the emotions of this subject are distilled to bring you a unique poetic guide.  

It is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread.  Whether it is the actual end of our life’s journey or merely a transit point to Heavenly glory its actual point of impact is, obviously, life changing.  But what do poets think of it?  How do their minds tangle with the subject and make sense of this?  That’s what we thought too.   Poets as rich and diverse as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Hood, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas hardy, Daniel Sheehan and Kahil Gilbran here share their words, thoughts and visions with us.  Death is unavoidable but the journey there should be as informed and enjoyable as possible.

Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe

Index Of Poems

Rain On A Grave By Thomas Hardy

No Coward Soul Is Mine By Emily Bronte

I Am Standing Upon The Seashore By Henry Van Dyke

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Afternoon In February By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Psalm 23 - The Lord's My Shepherd

That Endless Loop By Daniel Sheehan

All Is Well By Henry Scott Holland

Don’t Know What This Is As It Followed On By Kahlil Gibran

Death Be Not Proud By John Donne

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats By Percy Bsysshe Shelley

Death By William Butler Yeats

Death By Thomas Hood

A Death-Bed By Rudyard Kipling

As At Thy Portals Also Death By Walt Whitman

For the Anniversary Of John Keats' Death By Sara Teasdale

A Ballad Of Death By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Bereavement In Their Death To Feel By Emily Dickinson

Sonnet 66 By William Shakespeare

Such, Such Is Death By Charles Hamilton Sorley

His Meditation Upon Death By Robert Herrick

To The Lady Crewe, Upon The Death Of Her Child By Robert Herrick

Spirits Of The Dead By Edgar Allan Poe

To One Departed by Edgar Allan Poe

To One In Paradise By Edgar Allan Poe

I Measure Every Grief By Emily Dickinson

A Mother’s Love – Where She Goes She Is Not Gone By Daniel Sheehan

Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson

The Dead Man Walking By Thomas Hardy

No Longer Mourn For Me By William Shakespeare

Remember By Christina Rossetti

Sonnets X By John Donne

To Those Whom I Love & Those Who Love Me By Anonymous

Death By Rainer Maria Rilke

After Death By Sara Teasdale

A Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Death, To The Dead For Evermore By Robert Louis Stevenson

To Death By Robert Herrick

The Sleeper By Edgar Allan Poe

On Death By Kahil Gilbran

Bavarian Gentians By DH Lawrence

The Charge Of The Light Brigade By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Rain On A Grave By Thomas Hardy

Clouds spout upon her

Their waters amain

In ruthless disdain,

Her who but lately

Had shivered with pain

As at touch of dishonour

If there had lit on