The Book of Sorrow

Edited by Andrew Macphail

This unique anthology of 528 classified selections span the complete spectrum of the darker mood in poetic expression.

Bibliographic Record Preface

Contents

LONDON, NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1916
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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”)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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