Poems of Mourning

by WASHINGTON, PETER

• ISBN13: 9780375404566
• ISBN10: 0375404562
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-14
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

Saluting, lamenting and honoring the dead are the poet's primal tasks in all ages. Whether it be Ben Jonson pining for his son, Keats and Rilke envisaging their own demise, Wilfred Owen commemorating comrades in war, or Homer's Odysseus grieving over his dog - all give expression to the universal need for mourning.

Author Biography

Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, andMisfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 13
The Songs I Had	p. 15
Into my heart an air that kills	p. 16
In Memoriam (XI)	p. 17
What Survives	p. 18
When I have fears	p. 19
Because that you are going	p. 20
A Dirge, from The White Divel	p. 22
In Memoriam (II)	p. 23
Futility	p. 24
I heard a Fly buzz	p. 25
Then	p. 26
Farewell without a Guitar	p. 27
Dirge for Fidele	p. 28
Spring and Fall	p. 29
Black Spring	p. 31
Anaphora	p. 32
That it will never come again	p. 34
For Whom the Bell Tolls	p. 35
The Ghost	p. 36
The Glimpse	p. 37
Roman Sarcophagi	p. 39
Last Love	p. 40
From far, from eve and morning	p. 41
Odes III, 30	p. 42
All but Death, can be Adjusted	p. 43
Remember	p. 44
Simplify Me When I'm Dead	p. 45
Aqua Mortis	p. 47
Died of Wounds	p. 48
Poor Tom	p. 49
Music	p. 51
Because I could not stop for Death	p. 52
An Island Cemetery	p. 54
In a Disused Graveyard	p. 56
Ballade of the Ladies of Time Past	p. 57
For a Dead Lady	p. 59
One of the Dead	p. 60
To Praise a Dead Woman	p. 61
A Young Dead Woman	p. 62
Epitaph	p. 63
Rain on a Grave	p. 64
In Memoriam (VII)	p. 66
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	p. 67
The soul driven from the body	p. 68
From Horace, Odes II, 14	p. 69
Song	p. 71
Needles have stitched death shroud	p. 72
Serieca's Troas, Act II	p. 73
Weeping for the Zen Master Po-yen	p. 74
With rue my heart is laden	p. 75
The Sufi who thought he had left the world	p. 76
One Art	p. 78
Writing the Poems of Loss	p. 79
To Luigi del Ricci after the Death of Cecchino Bracci	p. 80
Selva oscura	p. 81
Elegy for Himself	p. 82
A Ballade to End with	p. 83
The Meditation	p. 85
Adieu! farewell earth's bliss!	p. 87
The Flowers of the Forest	p. 89
During Wind and Rain	p. 91
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	p. 93
An Arundel Tomb	p. 99
My Dearest Dust	p. 101
Maria Wentworth	p. 102
From Ovid, Tristia III, 3	p. 104
Methought I saw my late espoused saint	p. 106
On Parting with My Wife, Janina	p. 107
The Widower	p. 109
Over the Coffin	p. 110
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	p. 111
The Child Dying	p. 113
On My First Son	p. 115
Epitaph upon a Child that Died	p. 116
To My Dear Son, Gervase Beaumont	p. 117
Flood	p. 118
Do not go gentle into that good night	p. 119
To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick	p. 120
With Her	p. 121
Uncle Ananias	p. 122
Elegy	p. 124
By Her Aunt's Grave	p. 126
Cootchie	p. 127
Felix Randal	p. 128
Requiem	p. 130
To a Friend: In Memoriam	p. 141
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz	p. 143
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd	p. 145
The Poet's Death	p. 159
The Choirmaster's Burial	p. 160
At Melville's Tomb	p. 162
At the Grave of Henry James	p. 163
Lament for Lu Yin	p. 166
Lycidas	p. 167
A Quiet Soul	p. 175
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	p. 176
At Gautier's Grave	p. 178
Lament for the Makaris	p. 181
I travelled among unknown men	p. 186
Field Day	p. 187
David's Epitaph on Jonathan	p. 189
To His Love	p. 190
Fletcher's Lament for His Friend	p. 191
She	p. 192
The Voice	p. 193
Long Distance	p. 194
A slumber did my spirit seal	p. 196
Propertius, Elegies II, 28	p. 197
To Lizbie Browne	p. 198
An Exchange of Feelings	p. 201
From Anactoria	p. 202
The Old Gown	p. 203
Funeral Blues	p. 204
To His Dead Body	p. 205
The Silent One	p. 206
Anthem for Doomed Youth	p. 207
The Tombstone-Maker	p. 208
In Memoriam (LXVII)	p. 209
After Death	p. 210
The Survivor	p. 211
The Pardon	p. 212
At a Dog's Grave	p. 214
Praise of a Collie	p. 216
From The Odyssey of Homer, Book XVII	p. 217
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes	p. 220
On the Death of a Monkey	p. 222
Partridge	p. 223
A Dead Mole	p. 224
Epitaph on a Dormouse, Really Written by a Little Boy	p. 225
Carmen III	p. 226
Epitaph on a Hare	p. 227
An Epitaph upon the Celebrated Claudy Philips, Musician, Who Died Very Poor	p. 230
An Epitaph on M. H.	p. 231
Memorial Tablet	p. 233
Epitaph on the Duke of Grafton	p. 234
Epitaph on a Tomb Near Rome	p. 236
Dear to me is sleep	p. 236
An Epitaph for a Godly Man's Tomb	p. 237
'Twas my one Glory	p. 237
R.M.R.	p. 238
Acknowledgments	p. 239
Index of Authors	p. 247
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