Poems About Mortality

A Psalm of LifeTell me not, in mournful numbers, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lyric After Apple-PickingMy long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Robert Frost Lyric All the World’s a StageAll the world’s a stage, William Shakespeare BirchesWhen I see birches bend to left and right Robert Frost Bright StarBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— John Keats Sonnet EldoradoGaily bedight, Edgar Allan Poe How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet La Belle Dame sans Merci“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, John Keats Ballad Loveliest of TreesLoveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman Lyric No Man Is An IslandNo man is an island, John Donne OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique land Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet Song (When I Am Dead, My Dearest)When I am dead, my dearest, Christina Rossetti Lyric Sonnet 73That time of year thou mayst in me behold William Shakespeare There Will Come Soft RainsThere will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, Sara Teasdale Lyric TithonusThe woods decay, the woods decay and fall, Alfred Tennyson To AutumnSeason of mists and mellow fruitfulness, John Keats Ode To His Coy MistressHad we but world enough, and time, Lyric Up-HillDoes the road wind up-hill all the way? Christina Rossetti Lyric When I Have Fears That I May Cease to BeWhen I have fears that I may cease to be John Keats Sonnet