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| Search results for: grief | Found 27 Poems |
| 11. | "How Great My Grief" (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy | | How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee!
- Have the slow years not brought to view
How great my grief, my j... |
| 12. | Circe's Grief by Louise Gluck | | In the end, I made myself
Known to your wife as
A god would, in her own house, in
Ithaca, a voice
Without a body: she
Paused in her weaving, her ... |
| 13. | Grief by Philip Larkin | | If grief could burn out
Like a sunken coal
The heart would rest quiet
The unrent soul
Be as still as a veil
But I have watched all night
The... |
| 14. | Talking to Grief by Denise Levertov | | Ah, Grief, I should not treat you
like a homeless dog
who comes to the back door
for a crust, for a meatless bone.
I should trust you.
I should... |
| 17. | God's Grief by Robert William Service | | "Lord God of Hosts," the people pray,
"Make strong our arms that we may slay
Our cursed foe and win the day."
"Lord God of Battles," cries the foe,... |
| 18. | Brooding Grief by David Herbert Lawrence | | A yellow leaf from the darkness
Hops like a frog before me.
Why should I start and stand still?
I was watching the woman that bore me
Stretc... |
| 19. | Grief by George Herbert | | O who will give me tears? Come, all ye springs,
Dwell in my head and eyes; come, clouds
and rain;
My grief hath need of all the watery things
That... |
| 20. | If grief for grief can touch thee by Emily Bronte | | If grief for grief can touch thee,
If answering woe for woe,
If any truth can melt thee
Come to me now!
I cannot be more lonely,
More drear... |
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