| I. Serenity |
| In Memoriam R. G. C. B., 1878 by William Ernest Henley |
| Chorus from ‘Medea’ by Lord de Tabley (John Byrne Leicester Warren) |
| Death by George Pellew |
| In Beechwood Cemetery by Archibald Lampman |
| ‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’ by William Shakespeare |
| ‘As sometimes in a dead man’s face’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| ‘Do we indeed desire the dead’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Memories of Lincoln by Walt Whitman |
| ‘Sleep is a death’ by Sir Thomas Browne |
| Beside the Dead by Ina Donna Coolbrith |
| I. M. Margaritae Sororis, 1886 by William Ernest Henley |
| From ‘The Daemon of the world’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Life and Death by Sir William Davenant |
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| II. Rest |
| Rest by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| One Dead by John William Inchbold |
| ‘As thus Oppressed’ by Henry Kirke White |
| Buona Notte by Francis Thompson |
| ‘And more, to lulle him in his slumber soft’ by Edmund Spenser |
| Waiting for the Morning by John Henry Newman |
| Tears—Anonymous |
| Ex humo—Anonymous |
| ‘Where shall the lover rest’ by Sir Walter Scott |
| Dirge by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| When we are all asleep by Robert Buchanan |
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| III. Oblivion |
| To the Forgotten Dead by Margaret L. Woods |
| Gentlemen-Rankers by Rudyard Kipling |
| Death by Archibald Lampman |
| The Death of Puck by Eugene Lee-Hamilton |
| Sonnet: ‘No more these passion-worn faces shall men’s eyes’ by Oliver Madox Brown |
| Sic Vita by Henry King |
| Madrigal by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| ‘Come, heavy souls, oppressèd with the weight’ by William Strode |
| ‘Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears’ by Ben Jonson |
| ‘Alas! alas! when in a garden fair’ by Moschus |
| Rondeau by Henry Austin Dobson |
| ‘Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring’ by Edward Fitzgerald |
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| IV. Inevitable |
| Death the Leveller by James Shirley |
| Warwick’s Death by William Shakespeare |
| ‘Were I a King’ by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford |
| The Genius of Death by George Croly |
| Upon a Funeral by Sir John Beaumont |
| The Night Cometh by John McCrae |
| ‘O Sorrow, alas, sith Sorrow is thy name’ by Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
| The Pastime of Pleasure, Cap. xli by Stephen Hawes |
| Inscription in Melrose Abbey—Anonymous |
| From ‘Elegy written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray |
| ‘The mad days that I have spent’ by William Shakespeare |
| ‘Come, cheerful day’ by Thomas Campion |
| Upon a Passing Bell by Thomas Washbourne |
| From ‘Elegy to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady’ by Alexander Pope |
| Three Poems. i. The Flute by Florence Randal Livesay |
| ii. Storm by Florence Randal Livesay |
| iii. The Recruit by Florence Randal Livesay |
| Of Man’s Mortalitie. 1629 by Simon Wastell (?) |
| All things will die by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Virtue by George Herbert |
| To Daffodils by Robert Herrick |
| The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| A Dirge by John Webster |
| Go, lovely Rose by Edmund Waller |
| In Time of Pestilence, 1593 by Thomas Nashe |
| Lament for the Makaris by William Dunbar |
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| V. The Sting of Death |
| The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope |
| ‘Timor Mortis conturbat me’ by Sir Noël Paton |
| The Great Misgiving by William Watson |
| Death by Thomas Hood |
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| VI. The Grave’s Triumph |
| The Grave by Robert Blair |
| Sonnet: ‘Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Sonnet: ‘As, in a dusky and tempestuous night’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| The Choice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| ‘Be absolute for death; either death or life’ by William Shakespeare |
| ‘O Earth! art thou not weary’ by Julia C. R. Dorr |
| At an Unmarked Mound by Alexander Macphail |
| A Saxon Epitaph by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall |
| In Autumn by Arthur Reed Ropes (“Adrian Ross”) |
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| VII. The Tyrant |
| Coelia’s Speech, in the Tragedy of Croesus by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling |
| The Rose by Sir Richard Fanshawe |
| In Praise of Chaucer by Thomas Hoccleve |
| Life and Death, 1460?—Anonymous |
| From ‘To the Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew’ by John Dryden |
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| VIII. Victory |
| Death by John Donne |
| Sonnet: ‘Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth’ by William Shakespeare |
| Epitaph on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke by William Browne |
| On his Friend, Joseph Rodman Drake by Fitz-Greene Halleck |
| To my Friend F. A. B. by Beatrice Cregan |
| On his own Death by Walter Savage Landor |
| Lieut. Warneford, V.C. by Bowyer Nichols |
| Finis by Walter Savage Landor |
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| IX. The Sadness of It |
| The Sad Day by Thomas Flatman |
| ‘Come not, when I am dead’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| In the Shadows by David Gray |
| ‘If I should die to-night’ by Arabella E. Smith |
| ‘When I beneath the cold red earth am sleeping’ by William Motherwell |
| On Molière by Andrew Lang |
| Requiescat by Rosamund Marriott Watson |
| ‘Come away, come away, death’ by William Shakespeare |
| The Soldier’s Death-bed by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| The Young Girl by Andrew Macphail |
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| X. The Pity of It |
| The Mother who died too by Edith Matilda Thomas |
| Mimma Bella by Eugene Lee-Hamilton |
| The Land of Dreams by William Blake |
| ‘When Bessie died’ by James Whitcomb Riley |
| ‘Child of a day’ by Walter Savage Landor |
| Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy by Ben Jonson |
| Upon a Child by Robert Herrick |
| On the Death of a fair Infant by John Milton |
| On an Infant dying as soon as born by Charles Lamb |
| Afterwards by Duncan Campbell Scott |
| Sonnet: ‘Sweet soul, which in the April of thy years’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Of my dear son Gervase by Sir John Beaumont |
| We too shall sleep by Archibald Lampman |
| Casa Wappy by David Macbeth Moir |
| To the Memory of Elizabeth Nevell by Sir John Beaumont |
| ‘O God, to Thee I yield’ by Thomas Edward Brown |
| ‘Is the Grave deep, Dear?’ by Richard Realf |
| Vespers by Thomas Edward Brown |
| From ‘Venus and Adonis’ by William Shakespeare |
| From ‘The Princess’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Vesta by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Hester by Charles Lamb |
| Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning |
| On a Dead Child by Robert Bridges |
| The Water-nymph and the Boy by Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel |
| The Sands of Dee by Charles Kingsley |
| From ‘Tommy ’s dead’ by Sydney Dobell |
| The Widow’s Lament by James Hogg |
| The Hebrew Mother by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| Dirge by Edith (Nesbit) Bland |
| The Dead Child by George Barlow |
| On a Locket, with lock of hair of Penelope his child by Sir Brooke Boothby |
| Graves of Infants by John Clare |
| On a Dead Child by Richard Middleton |
| A Machine Hand by Thomas Ashe |
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| XI. O Come Quickly |
| ‘Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore’ by Thomas Campion |
| ‘Take me, Mother Earth, to thy cold breast’ by Anna Brownell Jameson |
| To Death by Robert Herrick |
| Brother Death by Edward Dowden |
| Euthanasia by Richard Crashaw |
| A Cry by Herbert Edwin Clarke |
| Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| In Memoriam G. O.—A Sussex Peasant by A. C. Steele |
| ‘Go away, Death’ by Alfred Austin |
| To Death by Caroline Bowles Southey |
| ‘O Death, rocke me on sleep’ by George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (?) |
| Obviam by Thomas Edward Brown |
| Reunited by Sir Gilbert Parker |
| Prospice by Robert Browning |
| Madrigal by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Sonnet: ‘Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now’ by William Shakespeare |
| Sonnet: ‘If I might choose where my tired limbs shall lie’ by John Anster |
| On the Death of William Aikman by James Thomson |
| A Contemplation upon Flowers by Henry King |
| From ‘Thanatopsis’ by William Cullen Bryant |
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| XII. Love and Death |
| ‘Trust thou thy Love’ by John Ruskin |
| Death-in-Love by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Love, Time, and Death by Frederick Locker-Lampson |
| Illusion by Andrew Macphail |
| Severed Selves by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| The death in Paris of Jane Sophia, Countess de Molandè by Walter Savage Landor |
| A Symphonic Study by Emma Lazarus |
| Youth and Death by Emma Lazarus |
| Hic Jacet by Louise Chandler Moulton |
| Sonnet: ‘Tir’d with all these, for restful death I cry’ by William Shakespeare |
| Not Thou but I by Philip Bourke Marston |
| ‘When Death to either shall come’ by Robert Bridges |
| ‘Grieve not, dear Love’ by John Digby, Earl of Bristol |
| ‘Remain, ah not in youth alone’ by Walter Savage Landor |
| ‘Who shall go first’—Anonymous |
| To Castara by William Habington |
| A Widow’s Hymn by George Wither |
| ‘Hélas! que ton mari’ by de Porchères |
| An Epitaph upon husband and wife who died and were buried together by Richard Crashaw |
| From ‘The Relique’ by John Donne |
| Sweet Willie and Fair Annie—Anonymous |
| From ‘Exequy on his Wife’ by Henry King |
| Upon the death of Sir Albertus Morton’s wife by Sir Henry Wotton |
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| XIII. Farewell |
| The Cossack goes to War by Florence Randal Livesay |
| Pain and Time strive not by William Morris |
| Farewell by Coventry Patmore |
| Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| Song: ‘When I am dead, my dearest’ by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| Sonnet: ‘No longer mourn for me when I am dead’ by William Shakespeare |
| A Voice from afar by John Henry Newman |
| ‘Fare thee well, great heart’ by William Shakespeare |
| Adieu by Thomas Carlyle |
| Song: ‘Girls, when I am gone away’ by Edward Dowden |
| Messages by Francis Thompson |
| The Land o’ the Leal by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne |
| Dirge of the Gipsies by Sir Walter Scott |
| From ‘Life’ by Anna Letitia Barbauld |
| The Spring of the Year by Allan Cunningham |
| ‘Softly woo away her breath’ by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) |
| The last word by Matthew Arnold |
| From ‘The Fair Maid of Perth’ by Sir Walter Scott |
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| XIV. This Is Thy Hour |
| A clear Midnight by Walt Whitman |
| Requiescat by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Dying by Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel |
| A Quiet Soul by John Oldham |
| Eternity by Robert Herrick |
| The last invocation by Walt Whitman |
| ‘How oft when men are at the point of death’ by William Shakespeare |
| Madrigal by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| ‘Leave me, O Love’ by Sir Philip Sidney |
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| XV. Protest |
| A Question by John Millington Synge |
| Dora by Thomas Edward Brown |
| ‘Why this waste?’ by John White Chadwick |
| On one who died in May by Clarence Chatham Cook |
| From ‘The Princess’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| A Prayer by James Russell Lowell |
| A Death-Scene by Emily Brontë |
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| XVI. Crossed Hands and Closed Eyes |
| The Death-bed by Thomas Hood |
| A Death-bed by James Aldrich |
| Reply by Hartley Coleridge |
| After Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| The Master’s Call by Henry Alford |
| Dirge by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| Requiescat by Matthew Arnold |
| If I had known by Adelaide D. Rollston |
| Not Lost by Thomas S. Collyer |
| Asleep by William Winter |
| ‘In the dim chamber’ by John Hay |
| On the Death of Coleridge by Washington Allston |
| The Silver Bridge by Elizabeth Akers Allen |
| White Roses by Ernest Rhys |
| An Epitaph by Andrew Marvell |
| ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ by Walt Whitman |
| New-Mown Hay by Andrew Macphail |
| In Death by Mary Emily Bradley |
| Epitaph intended for himself by James Beattie |
| Translated from Chiabrera by William Wordsworth |
| Epitaph on a Jacobite by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay |
| From ‘Maud’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe |
| I am Content by Andrew Macphail |
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| XVII. Bereavement |
| Substitution by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| From ‘Talamon and Arcite’ by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| From ‘Venus and Adonis’ by William Shakespeare |
| From ‘To J. S.’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| ‘’Tis well; ’tis something; we may stand’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| The last Smile by John Ruskin |
| The Women of France by Mary Linda Bradley |
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| XVIII. The Great Mystery |
| The Soliloquy of Cato by Joseph Addison |
| The Thought of Death by John Addington Symonds |
| Lucy by William Wordsworth |
| Sonnet: ‘The hand of Death lay heavy on her eyes’ by John Moultrie |
| He and I by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| The Future Life by William Cullen Bryant |
| To a Friend by William Caldwell Roscoe |
| From ‘The White Moth’ by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
| The Black Portals by Lloyd Mifflin |
| ‘Where Lies the Land’ by Hall Caine |
| Plaint by Ebenezer Elliott |
| The Choice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| To a Mistress Dying by Sir William Davenant |
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| XIX. The Shrouding |
| Song of the Shroud by Alma Strettell |
| A Lyke-wake Dirge—Anonymous |
| From ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ by John Webster |
| The Farewell to the Dead by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| To Bearers by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
| The Funeral by John Donne |
| To Perilla by Robert Herrick |
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| XX. The Burial |
| Ye have forgotten the Exhortation by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| Laus Deo by Sydney Dobell |
| Under the Violets by Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Messmates by Sir Henry John Newbolt |
| An Old Song by Alma Strettell |
| From ‘Drum Taps’ by Walt Whitman |
| The Burial of Sir John Moore by Charles Wolfe |
| Dirge for a Soldier by George Henry Boker |
| Isandhlwana by John McCrae |
| Death Song by Robert Stephen Hawker |
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| XXI. Interlude: Epochs by Emma Lazarus |
| i. Surprise |
| ii. Grief |
| iii. Loneliness |
| iv. Sympathy |
| v. Patience |
| vi. Hope |
| vii. Compensation |
| viii. Faith |
| ix. Work |
| x. Victory |
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| XXII. Irrevocable |
| A Leave-taking by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| The Unreturning by Bliss Carman |
| ‘Break, break, break’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| From ‘Epipsychidion’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Song: ‘That zephyr every year’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| From ‘Threnody’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| From ‘Thyrsis’ by Matthew Arnold |
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| XXIII. Grief |
| ‘Forgive my grief for one removed’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Song: ‘Have pitty, Griefe: I can not pay’ by Peter Hausted |
| Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ‘I have no wealth of grief’ by Lucy Knox |
| From ‘Sonnets in Shadow’ by Arlo Bates |
| ‘Weep, Lovers, sith Love’s very self doth weep’ by Dante Alighieri |
| To Sir Philip Sidney’s soul by Henry Constable |
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| XXIV. Bitter Sorrow |
| Tears by Walt Whitman |
| From ‘Adonais’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ‘They Said’ by Lucy Larcom |
| The Mask by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ‘Why sighest thou?’ by Cino da Pistoia |
| In Memoriam (Theodor Körner) by Christoph August Tiedge |
| On One who died discovering her kindness by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire |
| Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor |
| Dirge by John Ford |
| On the Picture of a Lady by John Hamilton Reynolds |
| ‘One writes, that “Other friends remain”’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| From ‘The Widow on Windermere side’ by William Wordsworth |
| Lament by Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel |
| From ‘The Affliction of Margaret ——’ by William Wordsworth |
| On the death of Joseph Addison by Thomas Tickell |
| Death by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| From ‘A Noble Soldier’, 1634 by Samuel Rowley |
| To Le Vayer, on the Death of his Son by Henry Austin Dobson |
| The Marriage Feast by Andrew Macphail |
| Grief by Francesco Redi |
| To Chatterton by John Keats |
| From ‘A Funeral Song’ by Nicholas Grimald |
| Mariana by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Stabat Mater by Jacopone da Todi |
| Edward Gray by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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| XXV. Bitter Remembrance |
| ‘If I were dead’ by Coventry Patmore |
| To his Mother, C. L. M. by John Masefield |
| Departure by Coventry Patmore |
| Bride chant by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| ‘I in the greyness rose’ by Stephen Phillips |
| The Dead by Mathilde Blind |
| A Superscription by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Separation by Walter Savage Landor |
| Agonia by John Ruskin |
| The Indian Maid’s Lament by John Logan |
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| XXVI. Melancholy |
| The Desolate City by Wilfred Scawen Blunt |
| From ‘The Nice Valour’ by John Fletcher |
| From ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’ by John Fletcher (?) |
| From ‘The Knight of the Burning Pestle’ by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher |
| The Last Wish by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) |
| From ‘Fair Helen of Kirconnell’—Anonymous (17th Century) |
| From ‘On the death of William Hervey’ by Abraham Cowley |
| Two Lovers by George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross) |
| Paolo and Francesca by John Keats |
| Ode on Melancholy by John Keats |
| The Morrow’s Message by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Dirge for Wolfram by Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
| From ‘Rugby Chapel’ by Matthew Arnold |
| In a Churchyard by Charlotte Smith |
| Remembrance by Emily Brontë |
| A Garden by the Sea by William Morris |
| From ‘Aylmer’s Field’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic by Samuel Johnson |
| In Memoriam by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton |
| On the Death of Katharine Kingscourt by John Oldham |
| On a vertuous young Gentlewoman who dyed suddenly by William Cartwright |
| From ‘Elegy on the Lady Venetia Digby’ by Ben Jonson |
| To Mary by Charles Wolfe |
| First Snow by John Talon-Lespérance |
| ‘O Dearest, canst thou tell me why’ by Heinrich Heine |
| His Lady’s Death by Pierre de Ronsard |
| Nè per sereno ciel ir vaghe stelle by Petrarch (Francisco Petrarca) |
| Gli occhi di ch’io parlai by Petrarch (Francisco Petrarca) |
| Soleasi nel mio cor by Petrarch (Francisco Petrarca) |
| Quanta invidia io ti porto by Petrarch (Francisco Petrarca) |
| From ‘Hebrew Melodies’ by Lord Byron |
| Under the Violets by Edward Young |
| Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers by Thomas Carew |
| Astophel by Edmund Spenser |
| From ‘Britannia’s Pastorals’ by William Browne |
| From ‘Daphnaida’ by Edmund Spenser |
| Marvel of Marvels by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| Newborn Death by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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| XXVII. Vain Longing |
| The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring—Anonymous |
| From ‘Maud’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| ‘If I could hold your hands’—Anonymous |
| ‘Tears, idle Tears’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Sonnet: ‘Sweet Spring, thou turn’st with all thy goodly train’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| The One Hope by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Upon Castara’s Departure by William Habington |
| ‘Surprised by Joy’ by William Wordsworth |
| ‘She touches a sad string of soft recall’ by Sydney Dobell |
| Lucy by William Wordsworth |
| To his Friend in Elysium by Joachim du Bellay |
| On the Death of Mr. West by Thomas Gray |
| From ‘Sea-Drift’ by Walt Whitman |
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| XXVIII. Loneliness |
| Stanzas—April, 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ‘Dark house, by which once more I stand’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| ‘She only died last week’ by Katharine Tynan Hinkson |
| The old familiar Faces by Charles Lamb |
| ‘It ’s an owercome sooth’ by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Holy Tide by Frederick Tennyson |
| Sonnet: ‘Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde’ by Edmund Spenser |
| To the Dead by William Bell Scott |
| From ‘Amoris Victima’ by Arthur Symons |
| ‘The Night has a thousand Eyes’ by Francis William Bourdillon |
| ‘I found her not’ by Thomas Moore |
| ‘Here, ever since you went’ by Walter Savage Landor |
| ‘Mild is the parting year’ by Walter Savage Landor |
| Years by Walter Savage Landor |
| The Maid’s Lament by Walter Savage Landor |
| ‘They are all gone into the world of light’ by Henry Vaughan |
| Without Her by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| The Wife a-lost by William Barnes |
| A Shepherd Boy’s Song by William Browne |
| Memory by William Browne |
| ‘Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| The Emigrant’s Lament by Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin Sheridan |
| ‘That lady of all gentle memories’ by Dante Alighieri |
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| XXIX. The Happy Dead |
| Upon a Maid by Robert Herrick |
| Upon a Child that died by Robert Herrick |
| Life Hidden by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| Is it well with the Child? by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| Athulf’s Song by Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
| Aspatia’s Song by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher |
| ‘Proud Maisie is in the wood’ by Sir Walter Scott |
| Threnos by William Shakespeare |
| Claribel by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| In a Garden by Henry Charles Beeching |
| A Dirge by Robert Nicoll |
| My Lady’s Grave by Emily Brontë |
| A. S. P. by Stephen Phillips |
| Barbara by Alexander Smith |
| Requiescat by Oscar Wilde |
| Lucy by William Wordsworth |
| ‘Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes’ by Robert Browning |
| From ‘Epitaph on the Daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth’ by Thomas Carew |
| Dirge by Madison Cawein |
| Minstrel’s Song in ‘Aella’ by Thomas Chatterton |
| On the Death of Beaumont by John Fletcher |
| Epitaph on Lady Mary Villiers by Thomas Carew |
| Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. by Ben Jonson |
| Epitaph on Master Philip Gray by Ben Jonson |
| Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke by Thomas Gray |
| Epitaph on a Friend by Robert Burns |
| The Grave of Shelley by Oscar Wilde |
| Funeral Hymn from ‘Ivanhoe’ by Sir Walter Scott |
| Ode, 1746 by William Collins |
| Pierre by Maurice Baring |
| The Winds by Ina Kitson Clark |
| A Fragment by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| God’s-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| XXX. Sweet Sorrow |
| From ‘Lycidas’ by John Milton |
| From ‘Ave atque vale’ by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| The Doleful Lay of Clorinda by Edmund Spenser |
| To the immortal Memory of Lady Clifton by Sir John Beaumont |
| Meditation by Charles Baudelaire |
| Consolations in Bereavement by John Henry Newman |
| Dirge in Cymbeline by William Collins |
| ‘O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| ‘O Sorrow’ by John Keats |
| To the Memory of the most excellent Lady Jane, Countess of Perth by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Maritae Suae by William Benjamin Philpot |
| Highland Mary by Robert Burns |
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| XXXI. Tender Memory |
| Song: ‘She’s somewhere in the sunlight strong’ by Richard Le Gallienne |
| To ——— by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ‘Life knows no dead so beautiful’ by Joaquin Miller |
| Sonnet: ‘Or I shall live your epitaph to make’ by William Shakespeare |
| From ‘My Kate’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ‘O thou art put to many uses, sweet!’ by Stephen Phillips |
| In June by Edward William Thomson |
| Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe |
| ‘O to recall!’ by Stephen Phillips |
| In Memoriam F. A. S. by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| XXXII. Visions |
| Summer Dawn by William Morris |
| On his deceased Wife by John Milton |
| Song: ‘I made another garden, yea’ by Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy |
| ‘How pure at heart and sound in head’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Seraphine by Heinrich Heine |
| On the Death of a pious Lady by Olof Wexionius |
| Ode: ‘Tell me, thou soul of her I love’ by James Thomson |
| From ‘The Blessed Damozel’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| The Apparition by Stephen Phillips |
| Dreams by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton |
| ‘I gaze into the dark’ by Jessie Fremont O’Donnell |
| The Mother’s Dream by William Barnes |
| From ‘William and Margaret’ by David Mallet |
| ‘If she but knew’ by Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy |
| From ‘Greek Lament’ by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
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| XXXIII. Resignation |
| From ‘Discipline’ by George Herbert |
| Sonnet: ‘I shall be faithful, though the weary years’ by George Henry Boker |
| Sorrow by William Patrick McKenzie |
| Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love by Robert Herrick |
| Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
| ‘Strong Son of God, immortal Love’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| From ‘Balder Dead’ by Matthew Arnold |
| Fading-Leaf and Fallen-Leaf by Richard Garnett |
| In Memory of Edward Quillinan by Matthew Arnold |
| From ‘The Queen of Corinth’ by John Fletcher |
| From ‘Marpessa’ by Stephen Phillips |
| From ‘Samson Agonistes’ by John Milton |
| In Memory of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts by Owen Seaman |
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| XXXIV. Compensation |
| ‘I held it truth, with him who sings’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Sonnet: ‘They say that thou wert lovely on thy bier’ by William Sidney Walker |
| Sonnet: ‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’ by William Shakespeare |
| Heraclitus by William Johnson Cory |
| Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ‘I thought once how Theocritus had sung’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Sonnet: ‘O blessèd be the tear that sadly rolled’ by Robert Roscoe |
| Beauty’s Metempsychosis by William Watson |
| On the Death of a Recluse by George Darley |
| From ‘The Warrior to His Dead Bride’ by Adelaide Anne Procter |
| From ‘In Memory of James T. Fields’ by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| From ‘To One in Paradise’ by Edgar Allan Poe |
| From ‘Beautiful Death’ by Stephen Phillips |
| Sonnet: ‘One day I wrote her name vpon the strand’ by Edmund Spenser |
| From ‘Pain’ by Thomas Edward Brown |
| A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland by William Wordsworth |
| On the Memory of Catherine Thomson, 1646 by John Milton |
| Sorrow by Aubrey Thomas de Vere |
| A Prayer of Petrarcke and of Laura—Anonymous |
| ‘In Love with Easeful Death’ by Mary E. Fletcher |
| From ‘A Life Drama’ by Alexander Smith |
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| XXXV. Consolation |
| ‘Heart, my Heart’ by Heinrich Heine |
| Influence of Time on Grief by William Lisle Bowles |
| ‘O mortall folke’ by Stephen Hawes |
| To-day a Man, To-morrow None by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| ‘Drive such despaire away’ by Stephen Hawes |
| Consolation by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Last Lines by Emily Brontë |
| Epilogue to ‘Haworth Churchyard’ by Matthew Arnold |
| Burial of the Dead by John Keble |
| Readen ov a Head-Stwone by William Barnes |
| On the Death of Colonel Bainbrigge’s Daughter, 1815 by Thomas Moore |
| Stanzas for Music by Lord Byron |
| ‘Home they brought her Warrior Dead’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| ‘This World is all a fleeting Show’ by Thomas Moore |
| ‘O Life, O Death, O World, O Time’ by Richard Chenevix Trench |
| The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Up-hill by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| ‘In the Hour of Death’ by Richard Doddridge Blackmore |
