Grief and Loss

Theme/Concept — appears in 432 work(s).

Works

• Sense and Sensibility (Austen)
• Villette (Bronte)
• Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
• job (Chesterton)
• prayer (Chesterton)
• Tribute To Gladstone (Chesterton)
• BalladStBarbara (Chesterton)
• Poems (Chesterton)
• great-minimum (Chesterton)
• Robert Browning (Chesterton)
• ANNA AND HARLAND (Coleridge)
• ANOTHER VERSION. (Coleridge)
• ANTHEM FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHRIST’S HOSPITAL (Coleridge)
• BURKE (Coleridge)
• DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN (Coleridge)
• ELEGY IMITATED FROM ONE OF AKENSIDE’S BLANK-VERSE INSCRIPTIONS (Coleridge)
• EPIGRAM ON KEPLER (Coleridge)
• EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (Coleridge)
• FIRST DRAFTS, EARLY VERSIONS, ETC. (Coleridge)
• HEXAMETERS (Coleridge)
• ISRAEL’S LAMENT (Coleridge)
• JULIA (Coleridge)
• KOSKIUSKO (Coleridge)
• LINES ON A FRIEND WHO DIED OF A FRENZY FEVER INDUCED BY CALUMNIOUS REPORTS (Coleridge)
• LOVE’S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT AN ALLEGORIC ROMANCE (Coleridge)
• MARK AKENSIDE (Coleridge)
• MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (Coleridge) (2)
• MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (Coleridge)
• MORIENS SUPERSTITI (Coleridge)
• MORIENTI SUPERSTES (Coleridge)
• NAPOLEON (Coleridge)
• O! I HAVE WAK’D AT MIDNIGHT, AND HAVE WEPT (Coleridge)
• ON A DISCOVERY MADE TOO LATE (Coleridge)
• ON A LATE CONNUBIAL RUPTURE IN HIGH LIFE (Coleridge)
• ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER’S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE (Coleridge)
• ON SEEING A YOUTH AFFECTIONATELY WELCOMED BY A SISTER (Coleridge)
• OVER MY COTTAGE (Coleridge)
• PROFUSE KINDNESS (Coleridge)
• SEPARATION (Coleridge)
• SONNET (Coleridge)
• SONNET ON QUITTING SCHOOL FOR COLLEGE (Coleridge)
• THE DAY-DREAM FROM AN EMIGRANT TO HIS ABSENT WIFE (Coleridge)
• THE DEATH OF THE STARLING (Coleridge)
• THE GENTLE LOOK (Coleridge)
• THE MAD MONK (Coleridge)
• THE OLD MAN OF THE ALPS (Coleridge)
• THE PANG MORE SHARP THAN ALL AN ALLEGORY (Coleridge)
• THE POETASTER (Coleridge)
• THE SIGH (Coleridge)
• THE TEARS OF A GRATEFUL PEOPLE (Coleridge)
• THE TWO FOUNTS (Coleridge)
• THE VISIONARY HOPE (Coleridge)
• TO A FRIEND (Coleridge)
• TO A LADY WITH FALCONER’S SHIPWRECK (Coleridge)
• TO TWO SISTERS MARY MORGAN AND CHARLOTTE BRENT (Coleridge)
• TRANSLATION OF A LATIN INSCRIPTION BY THE REV. W. L. BOWLES IN NETHER-STOWEY CHURCH (Coleridge)
• TRANSLATION OF WRANGHAM’S ‘HENDECASYLLABI AD BRUNTONAM E GRANTA EXITURAM’ KAL. OCT.MDCCXC (Coleridge)
• David Copperfield (Dickens)
• The Battle of Life (Dickens)
• The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (Dickens)
• The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens)
• 1018. Who saw no Sunrise cannot say (Dickinson)
• 1020. Trudging to Eden, looking backward, (Dickinson)
• 1026. The Dying need but little, Dear, (Dickinson)
• 1037. Here, where the Daisies fit my Head (Dickinson)
• 104. Where I have lost, I softer tread — (Dickinson)
• 1044. A Sickness of this World it most occasions (Dickinson)
• 1057. I had a daily Bliss (Dickinson)
• 1061. Three Weeks passed since I had seen Her — (Dickinson)
• 1087. We miss a Kinsman more (Dickinson)
• 1088. Ended, ere it begun — (Dickinson)
• 1100. The last Night that She lived (Dickinson)
• 1102. His Bill is clasped — his Eye forsook — (Dickinson)
• 1106. We do not know the time we lose — (Dickinson)
• 1123. A great Hope fell (Dickinson)
• 113. Our share of night to bear — (Dickinson)
• 1130. That odd old man is dead a year — (Dickinson)
• 1136. The Frost of Death was on the Pane — (Dickinson)
• 1150. How many schemes may die (Dickinson)
• 1153. Through what transports of Patience (Dickinson)
• 116. I had some things that I called mine — (Dickinson)
• 1171. On the World you colored (Dickinson)
• 1184. The Days that we can spare (Dickinson)
• 1191. The pungent atom in the Air (Dickinson)
• 1194. Somehow myself survived the Night (Dickinson)
• 1197. I should not dare to be so sad (Dickinson)
• 1204. Whatever it is — she has tried it — (Dickinson)
• 1205. Immortal is an ample word (Dickinson)
• 1219. Now I knew I lost her — (Dickinson)
• 1228. So much of Heaven has gone from Earth (Dickinson)
• 1230. It came at last but prompter Death (Dickinson)
• 1243. Safe Despair it is that raves — (Dickinson)
• 125. For each ecstatic instant (Dickinson)
• 1253. Had this one Day not been. (Dickinson)
• 1259. A Wind that rose (Dickinson)
• 126. To fight aloud, is very brave — (Dickinson)
• 1260. Because that you are going (Dickinson)
• 1264. This is the place they hoped before, (Dickinson)
• 1267. I saw that the Flake was on it (Dickinson)
• 1272. So proud she was to die (Dickinson)
• 1277. While we were fearing it, it came — (Dickinson)
• 1279. The Way to know the Bobolink (Dickinson)
• 1285. I know Suspense — it steps so terse (Dickinson)
• 1288. Lain in Nature — so suffice us (Dickinson)
• 1290. The most pathetic thing I do (Dickinson)
• 1296. Death’s Waylaying not the sharpest (Dickinson)
• 1304. Not with a Club, the Heart is broken (Dickinson)
• 1305. Recollect the Face of me (Dickinson)
• 132. I bring an unaccustomed wine (Dickinson)
• 1399. Perhaps they do not go so far (Dickinson)
• 141. Some, too fragile for winter winds (Dickinson)
• 1410. I shall not murmur if at last (Dickinson)
• 1426. The pretty Rain from those sweet Eaves (Dickinson)
• 1436. Than Heaven more remote, (Dickinson)
• 1438. Behold this little Bane — (Dickinson)
• 144. She bore it till the simple veins (Dickinson)
• 1440. The healed Heart shows its shallow scar (Dickinson)
• 145. This heart that broke so long — (Dickinson)
• 146. On such a night, or such a night, (Dickinson)
• 1464. One thing of it we borrow (Dickinson)
• 149. She went as quiet as the Dew (Dickinson)
• 1490. The Face in evanescence lain (Dickinson)
• 150. She died — this was the way she died. (Dickinson)
• 1503. More than the Grave is closed to me — (Dickinson)
• 1507. The Pile of Years is not so high (Dickinson)
• 1508. You cannot make Remembrance grow (Dickinson)
• 1515. The Things that never can come back, are several — (Dickinson)
• 1521. The Butterfly upon the Sky, (Dickinson)
• 1524. A faded Boy — in sallow Clothes (Dickinson)
• 1530. A Pang is more conspicuous in Spring (Dickinson)
• 154. Except to Heaven, she is nought. (Dickinson)
• 1540. As imperceptibly as Grief (Dickinson)
• 1549. My Wars are laid away in Books — (Dickinson)
• 156. You love me — you are sure — (Dickinson)
• 1562. Her Losses make our Gains ashamed — (Dickinson)
• 158. Dying! Dying in the night! (Dickinson)
• 1584. Expanse cannot be lost — (Dickinson)
• 1597. ‘Tis not the swaying frame we miss, (Dickinson)
• 1606. Quite empty, quite at rest, (Dickinson)
• 1612. The Auctioneer of Parting (Dickinson)
• 1632. So give me back to Death — (Dickinson)
• 1633. Still own thee — still thou art (Dickinson)
• 164. Mama never forgets her birds, (Dickinson)
• 1665. I know of people in the Grave (Dickinson)
• 169. In Ebon Box, when years have flown (Dickinson)
• 1731. Love can do all but raise the Dead (Dickinson)
• 1732. My life closed twice before its close — (Dickinson)
• 1738. Softened by Time’s consummate plush, (Dickinson)
• 1739. Some say goodnight — at night — (Dickinson)
• 1742. The distance that the dead have gone (Dickinson)
• 1751. There comes an hour when begging stops, (Dickinson)
• 1752. This docile one inter (Dickinson)
• 1754. To lose thee — sweeter than to gain (Dickinson)
• 1756. ‘Twas here my summer paused (Dickinson)
• 1757. Upon the gallows hung a wretch, (Dickinson)
• 1759. Which misses most, (Dickinson)
• 1764. The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, (Dickinson)
• 1769. The longest day that God appoints (Dickinson)
• 178. I cautious, scanned my little life — (Dickinson)
• 181. I lost a World — the other day! (Dickinson)
• 190. He was weak, and I was strong — then — (Dickinson)
• 192. Poor little Heart! (Dickinson)
• 193. I shall know why — when Time is over — (Dickinson)
• 196. We don’t cry — Tim and I, (Dickinson)
• 205. I should not dare to leave my friend, (Dickinson)
• 217. Savior! I’ve no one else to tell — (Dickinson)
• 23. I had a guinea golden — (Dickinson)
• 231. God permits industrious Angels — (Dickinson)
• 232. The Sun — just touched the Morning — (Dickinson)
• 236. If He dissolve — then — there is nothing — more — (Dickinson)
• 237. I think just how my shape will rise — (Dickinson)
• 27. Morns like these — we parted — (Dickinson)
• 282. How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand, (Dickinson)
• 29. If those I loved were lost (Dickinson)
• 293. I got so I could take his name — (Dickinson)
• 296. One Year ago — jots what (Dickinson)
• 299. Your Riches — taught me — Poverty (Dickinson)
• 310. Give little Anguish — (Dickinson)
• 312. Her — last Poems — (Dickinson)
• 314. Nature — sometimes sears a Sapling — (Dickinson)
• 329. So glad we are — a Stranger’d deem (Dickinson)
• 33. If recollecting were forgetting, (Dickinson)
• 335. ‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so — (Dickinson)
• 341. After great pain, a formal feeling comes — (Dickinson)
• 344. ‘Twas the old — road — through pain — (Dickinson)
• 348. I dreaded that first Robin, so, (Dickinson)
• 353. A happy lip — breaks sudden — (Dickinson)
• 360. Death sets a Thing significant (Dickinson)
• 362. It struck me — every Day — (Dickinson)
• 363. I went to thank Her — (Dickinson)
• 364. The Morning after Woe — (Dickinson)
• 366. Although I put away his life — (Dickinson)
• 369. She lay as if at play (Dickinson)
• 37. Before the ice is in the pools — (Dickinson)
• 372. I know lives, I could miss (Dickinson)
• 377. To lose one’s faith — surpass (Dickinson)
• 379. Rehearsal to Ourselves (Dickinson)
• 388. Take your Heaven further on — (Dickinson)
• 389. There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House, (Dickinson)
• 39. It did not surprise me — (Dickinson)
• 411. The Color of the Grave is Green — (Dickinson)
• 419. We grow accustomed to the Dark — (Dickinson)
• 422. More Life — went out — when He went (Dickinson)
• 426. It don’t sound so terrible — quite — as it did — (Dickinson)
• 430. It would never be Common — more — I said — (Dickinson)
• 433. Knows how to forget! (Dickinson)
• 443. I tie my Hat — I crease my Shawl — (Dickinson)
• 45. There’s something quieter than sleep (Dickinson)
• 467. We do not play on Graves — (Dickinson)
• 47. Heart! We will forget him! (Dickinson)
• 472. Except the Heaven had come so near — (Dickinson)
• 479. She dealt her pretty words like Blades — (Dickinson)
• 482. We Cover Thee — Sweet Face — (Dickinson)
• 485. To make One’s Toilette — after Death (Dickinson)
• 49. I never lost as much but twice, (Dickinson)
• 490. To One denied the drink (Dickinson)
• 499. Those fair — fictitious People — (Dickinson)
• 5. I have a Bird in spring (Dickinson)
• 509. If anybody’s friend be dead (Dickinson)
• 51. I often passed the village (Dickinson)
• 514. Her smile was shaped like other smiles — (Dickinson)
• 521. Endow the Living — with the Tears — (Dickinson)
• 522. Had I presumed to hope — (Dickinson)
• 53. Taken from men — this morning — (Dickinson)
• 534. We see — Comparatively — (Dickinson)
• 536. The Heart asks Pleasure — first — (Dickinson)
• 539. The Province of the Saved (Dickinson)
• 542. I had no Cause to be awake — (Dickinson)
• 548. Death is potential to that Man (Dickinson)
• 553. One Crucifixion is recorded — only — (Dickinson)
• 554. The Black Berry — wears a Thorn in his side — (Dickinson)
• 561. I measure every Grief I meet (Dickinson)
• 565. One Anguish — in a Crowd — (Dickinson)
• 566. A Dying Tiger — moaned for Drink — (Dickinson)
• 567. He gave away his Life — (Dickinson)
• 571. Must be a Woe — (Dickinson)
• 574. My first well Day — since many ill — (Dickinson)
• 577. If I may have it, when it’s dead, (Dickinson)
• 58. Delayed till she had ceased to know — (Dickinson)
• 584. It ceased to hurt me, though so slow (Dickinson)
• 586. We talked as Girls do — (Dickinson)
• 588. I cried at Pity — not at Pain — (Dickinson)
• 592. What care the Dead, for Chanticleer — (Dickinson)
• 596. When I was small, a Woman died — (Dickinson)
• 597. It always felt to me — a wrong (Dickinson)
• 607. Of nearness to her sundered Things (Dickinson)
• 610. You’ll find — it when you try to die — (Dickinson)
• 616. I rose — because He sank — (Dickinson)
• 618. At leisure is the Soul (Dickinson)
• 619. Glee — The great storm is over — (Dickinson)
• 620. It makes no difference abroad — (Dickinson)
• 622. To know just how He suffered — would be dear — (Dickinson)
• 626. Only God — detect the Sorrow — (Dickinson)
• 631. Ourselves were wed one summer — dear — (Dickinson)
• 639. My Portion is Defeat — today — (Dickinson)
• 640. I cannot live with You — (Dickinson)
• 644. You left me — Sire — two Legacies — (Dickinson)
• 645. Bereavement in their death to feel (Dickinson)
• 648. Promise This — When You be Dying — (Dickinson)
• 649. Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead (Dickinson)
• 660. ‘Tis good — the looking back on Grief — (Dickinson)
• 671. She dwelleth in the Ground — (Dickinson)
• 686. They say that Time assuages — (Dickinson)
• 690. Victory comes late — (Dickinson)
• 708. I sometimes drop it, for a Quick — (Dickinson)
• 71. A throe upon the features — (Dickinson)
• 715. The World — feels Dusty (Dickinson)
• 718. I meant to find Her when I came — (Dickinson)
• 72. Glowing is her Bonnet, (Dickinson)
• 723. It tossed — and tossed — (Dickinson)
• 731. I want — it pleaded — All its life — (Dickinson)
• 734. If He were living — dare I ask — (Dickinson)
• 735. Upon Concluded Lives (Dickinson)
• 739. I many times thought Peace had come (Dickinson)
• 743. The Birds reported from the South — (Dickinson)
• 755. No Bobolink — reverse His Singing (Dickinson)
• 758. These — saw Visions — (Dickinson)
• 763. He told a homely tale (Dickinson)
• 778. This that would greet — an hour ago — (Dickinson)
• 78. A poor — torn heart — a tattered heart — (Dickinson)
• 784. Bereaved of all, I went abroad — (Dickinson)
• 786. Severer Service of myself (Dickinson)
• 79. Going to Heaven! (Dickinson)
• 793. Grief is a Mouse — (Dickinson)
• 795. Her final Summer was it — (Dickinson)
• 804. No Notice gave She, but a Change — (Dickinson)
• 81. We should not mind so small a flower — (Dickinson)
• 812. A Light exists in Spring (Dickinson)
• 814. One Day is there of the Series (Dickinson)
• 831. Dying! To be afraid of thee (Dickinson)
• 840. I cannot buy it — ‘tis not sold — (Dickinson)
• 846. Twice had Summer her fair Verdure (Dickinson)
• 853. When One has given up One’s life (Dickinson)
• 874. They won’t frown always — some sweet Day (Dickinson)
• 878. The Sun is gay or stark (Dickinson)
• 88. As by the dead we love to sit, (Dickinson)
• 881. I’ve none to tell me to but Thee (Dickinson)
• 89. Some things that fly there be — (Dickinson)
• 890. From Us She wandered now a Year, (Dickinson)
• 895. A Cloud withdrew from the Sky (Dickinson)
• 898. How happy I was if I could forget (Dickinson)
• 90. Within my reach! (Dickinson)
• 900. What did They do since I saw Them (Dickinson)
• 901. Sweet, to have had them lost (Dickinson)
• 904. Had I not This, or This, I said, (Dickinson)
• 907. Till Death — is narrow Loving — (Dickinson)
• 908. ‘Tis Sunrise — Little Maid — Hast Thou (Dickinson)
• 95. My nosegays are for Captives — (Dickinson)
• 959. A loss of something ever felt I — (Dickinson)
• 96. Sexton! My Master’s sleeping here. (Dickinson)
• 965. Denial — is the only fact (Dickinson)
• 971. Robbed by Death — but that was easy — (Dickinson)
• 973. ‘Twas awkward, but it fitted me — (Dickinson)
• 978. It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon — (Dickinson)
• 981. As Sleigh Bells seem in summer (Dickinson)
• 985. The Missing All — prevented Me (Dickinson)
• 991. She sped as Petals of a Rose (Dickinson)
• 993. We miss Her, not because We see — (Dickinson)
• 999. Superfluous were the Sun (Dickinson)
• COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962 (Eliot)
• Eyes that last I saw in tears (Eliot)
• La Figlia Che Piange (Eliot)
• MINOR POEMS (Eliot)
• A Galloway Song (Keats)
• Faery Songs (Keats)
• Hyperion (Keats)
• ISABELLA (Keats)
• Song I had a dove and the sweet dove died (Keats)
• Sonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again (Keats)
• Sonnet to Byron (Keats)
• Sonnet to Chatterton (Keats)
• Stanzas (Keats)
• The Fall of Hyperion (Keats)
• To — (Keats)
• A Dream (Poe)
• Annabel Lee (Poe)
• Berenice (Poe)
• Dream-Land (Poe)
• Eleonora (Poe)
• For Annie (Poe)
• In Youth I Have Known One (Poe)
• Lenore (Poe)
• Scenes From Politian (Poe)
• Shadow-A Parable (Poe)
• Song (Poe)
• Tamerlane (Poe)
• The Assignation (Poe)
• The Forest Reverie (Poe)
• The Raven (Poe)
• The Sleeper (Poe)
• To One in Paradise (Poe)
• To Zante (Poe)
• Ulalume (Poe)
• A Lover’s Complaint (Shakespeare)
• HAMLET (Shakespeare)
• PERICLES (Shakespeare)
• RICHARD II (Shakespeare)
• ROMEO AND JULIET (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 28 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 30 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 31 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 33 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 34 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 40 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 42 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 43 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 44 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 45 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 47 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 48 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 49 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 50 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 52 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 56 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 57 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 58 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 61 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 64 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 71 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 72 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 87 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 89 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 9 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 90 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 97 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 98 (Shakespeare)
• THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Shakespeare)
• THE HISTORY OF KING LEAR - THE QUARTO TEXT (Shakespeare)
• THE RAPE OF LUCRECE (Shakespeare)
• THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR - THE FOLIO TEXT (Shakespeare)
• THE WINTER’S TALE (Shakespeare)
• VENUS AND ADONIS (Shakespeare)
• A Twilight Song (Whitman)
• As at Thy Portals Also Death (Whitman)
• As If a Phantom Caress’d Me (Whitman)
• As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods (Whitman)
• Beat! Beat! Drums! (Whitman)
• Come Up from the Fields Father (Whitman)
• Death of General Grant (Whitman)
• Dirge for Two Veterans (Whitman)
• Drum-Taps (Whitman)
• Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day May 4, 1865 (Whitman)
• I Sit and Look Out (Whitman)
• Lo, Victress on the Peaks (Whitman)
• Look Down Fair Moon (Whitman)
• MY 71st Year (Whitman)
• O Captain! My Captain! (Whitman)
• Of Him I Love Day and Night (Whitman)
• Old Ireland (Whitman)
• Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City (Whitman)
• Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Whitman)
• Reconciliation (Whitman)
• Tears (Whitman)
• The Centenarian’s Story (Whitman)
• The Dead Emperor (Whitman)
• The Dead Tenor (Whitman)
• The Pallid Wreath (Whitman)
• The Sobbing of the Bells Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881 (Whitman)
• The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion
• The Wound-Dresser (Whitman)
• To Those Who’ve Fail’d (Whitman)
• Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (Whitman)
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (Whitman)
• While Not the Past Forgetting (Whitman)
• Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me (Whitman)
• Yonnondio (Whitman)
• A Woman of No Importance (Wilde)
• De Profundis (Wilde)
• Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde)
• The Birthday of the Infanta (Wilde)
• The Devoted Friend (Wilde)
• The Happy Prince (Wilde)
• The Guards Came Through and Other Poems (Conan Doyle)
• The Journey (Conan Doyle)
• The Land of Mist (Conan Doyle)

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