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| Search results for: grief | Found 27 Poems |
| 1. | I measure every Grief I meet by Emily Dickinson | | I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, Eyes --
I wonder if It weighs like Mine --
Or has an Easier size.
I wonder if They bore it lo... |
| 2. | As imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson | | As imperceptibly as Grief
The Summer lapsed away --
Too imperceptible at last
To seem like Perfidy --
A Quietness distilled
As Twilight long begu... |
| 3. | If all the griefs I am to have by Emily Dickinson | | If all the griefs I am to have
Would only come today,
I am so happy I believe
They'd laugh and run away.
If all the joys I am to have
Would onl... |
| 4. | 'Tis good -- the looking back on Grief -- by Emily Dickinson | | 'Tis good -- the looking back on Grief --
To re-endure a Day --
We thought the Mighty Funeral --
Of All Conceived Joy --
To recollect how Busy G... |
| 5. | Grief is a Mouse -- by Emily Dickinson | | Grief is a Mouse --
And chooses Wainscot in the Breast
For His Shy House --
And baffles quest --
Grief is a Thief -- quick startled --
Pricks H... |
| 6. | I can wade Grief by Emily Dickinson | | I can wade Grief --
Whole Pools of it --
I'm used to that --
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet --
And I tip -- drunken --
Let no Pebbl... |
| 8. | Consummation Of Grief by Charles Bukowski | | I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
the fish cry
and the water
is their tears.
I l... |
| 9. | The Right to Grief by Carl Sandburg | | To Certain Poets About to Die
TAKE your fill of intimate remorse, perfumed sorrow,
Over the dead child of a millionaire,
And the pity of Death re... |
| 10. | Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | I tell you hopeless grief is passionless,
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God... |
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