Poems About Grief

Adonais (Selected Excerpts)I weep for Adonais—he is dead! Percy Bysshe Shelley Elegy After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling ComesAfter great pain a formal feeling comes— Emily Dickinson Lyric Annabel LeeIt was many and many a year ago, Edgar Allan Poe Ballad Death Is Nothing at AllDeath is nothing at all. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Villanelle In Memoriam A.H.H. (Selected Excerpts)Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Alfred Tennyson Elegy O Captain! My Captain!O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, Walt Whitman Elegy ReluctanceOut through the fields and the woods Robert Frost Lyric RememberRemember me when I am gone away, Christina Rossetti Ring Out, Wild BellsRing out wild bells to the wild sky, Alfred Tennyson Lyric Sonnet 9Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye, William Shakespeare Sonnet The RavenOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Edgar Allan Poe Narrative Poem UlalumeThe skies they were ashen and sober; Edgar Allan Poe UlyssesIt little profits that an idle king, Alfred Tennyson When We Two PartedWhen we two parted Lord Byron Lyric