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Pages in category "Poems about death" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide." [citation needed] — Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee (10 September 1813), to his son Death of Poniatowski by January Suchodolski
Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]
In 2022, writer Cassie Phillips’s “Let Them” poem went viral, and features many of the same points that Robbins shares as a part of her theory. Phillips’s poem is regularly shared as a ...
The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of the Sinosphere—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of Chinese history, Joseon Korea, and Vietnam. They tend to offer a reflection on death—both in general and concerning the imminent death of the author—that is often coupled with a meaningful ...
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In the early 1980s Harkins sent the piece, with other poems, to various magazines and poetry publishers, without any immediate success. Eventually it was published in a small anthology in 1999. He later said: "I believe a copy of 'Remember Me' was lying around in some publishers/poetry magazine office way back, someone picked it up and after ...
"It comes at last, the happy day: Let thanks be given to God in heaven, while we learn pleasure in His way." [8] — Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler (29 April 1630) "I were miserable, if I might not die." [11]: 49 [note 81] — John Donne, English poet, scholar and soldier, Dean of St Paul's (31 March 1631)