Mortality

Theme/Concept — appears in 448 work(s).

Works

• Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
• elegy (Chesterton)
• eternities (Chesterton)
• gold-leaves (Chesterton)
• last hero (Chesterton)
• methuselahite (Chesterton)
• praise of dust (Chesterton)
• rolling (Chesterton)
• skeleton (Chesterton)
• strange-music (Chesterton)
• suicide (Chesterton)
• titanic (Chesterton)
• titanicGKC (Chesterton)
• to-frances (Chesterton)
• Tribute To Gladstone (Chesterton)
• WhoGoesHome (Chesterton)
• great-minimum (Chesterton)
• kingcole (Chesterton)
• As I Was Saying (Chesterton)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Chesterton)
• The Speaker (Chesterton)
• A HINT TO PREMIERS AND FIRST CONSULS (Coleridge)
• ANOTHER VERSION. (Coleridge)
• DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI (Coleridge)
• EPITAPH (Coleridge)
• EPITAPH ON A BAD MAN (Coleridge)
• EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (Coleridge)
• EPITAPH ON MAJOR DIEMAN (Coleridge)
• EPITAPH ON HIMSELF (Coleridge)
• EPITAPHIUM TESTAMENTARIUM (Coleridge)
• FRAGMENTS (Coleridge)
• HUMAN LIFE (Coleridge)
• INSCRIPTION FOR A SEAT BY THE ROAD SIDE HALF-WAY UP A STEEP HILL FACING SOUTH (Coleridge)
• ISRAEL’S LAMENT (Coleridge)
• LETTER TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE (Coleridge)
• LIMBO (Coleridge)
• LINES TO W. L. WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL’S MUSIC (Coleridge)
• MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (Coleridge) (2)
• MORIENS SUPERSTITI (Coleridge)
• MORIENTI SUPERSTES (Coleridge)
• NATURE’S ANSWER (Coleridge)
• OCCASIONED BY THE LAST (Coleridge)
• ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM (Coleridge)
• ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796 (Coleridge)
• ON PITT AND FOX (Coleridge)
• ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER’S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE (Coleridge)
• ON THE CHRISTENING OF A FRIEND’S CHILD (Coleridge)
• OVER MY COTTAGE (Coleridge)
• PAIN (Coleridge)
• PSYCHE (Coleridge)
• REPLY TO THE ABOVE (Coleridge)
• SELF-KNOWLEDGE (Coleridge)
• THE HOUR-GLASS (Coleridge)
• THE KNIGHT’S TOMB (Coleridge)
• TO A YOUNG LADY (Coleridge)
• TO LESBIA (Coleridge)
• TRANSLATION OF A LATIN INSCRIPTION BY THE REV. W. L. BOWLES IN NETHER-STOWEY CHURCH (Coleridge)
• UNDERWOODS (Coleridge)
• WHAT IS LIFE (Coleridge)
• A Christmas Carol (Dickens)
• The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens)
• 10. My wheel is in the dark! (Dickinson)
• 1013. Too scanty ‘twas to die for you, (Dickinson)
• 1026. The Dying need but little, Dear, (Dickinson)
• 1037. Here, where the Daisies fit my Head (Dickinson)
• 1038. Her little Parasol to lift (Dickinson)
• 104. Where I have lost, I softer tread — (Dickinson)
• 1044. A Sickness of this World it most occasions (Dickinson)
• 1049. Pain has but one Acquaintance (Dickinson)
• 1060. Air has no Residence, no Neighbor, (Dickinson)
• 1061. Three Weeks passed since I had seen Her — (Dickinson)
• 1063. Ashes denote that Fire was — (Dickinson)
• 1065. Let down the Bars, Oh Death — (Dickinson)
• 107. ‘Twas such a little — little boat (Dickinson)
• 1080. When they come back — if Blossoms do — (Dickinson)
• 1090. I am afraid to own a Body — (Dickinson)
• 1100. The last Night that She lived (Dickinson)
• 1112. That this should feel the need of Death (Dickinson)
• 1130. That odd old man is dead a year — (Dickinson)
• 1135. Too cold is this (Dickinson)
• 1136. The Frost of Death was on the Pane — (Dickinson)
• 1147. After a hundred years (Dickinson)
• 115. What Inn is this (Dickinson)
• 1153. Through what transports of Patience (Dickinson)
• 1154. A full fed Rose on meals of Tint (Dickinson)
• 1159. Great Streets of silence led away (Dickinson)
• 1172. The Clouds their Backs together laid (Dickinson)
• 1188. ‘Twas fighting for his Life he was — (Dickinson)
• 1194. Somehow myself survived the Night (Dickinson)
• 120. If this is fading (Dickinson)
• 1202. The Frost was never seen — (Dickinson)
• 1217. Fortitude incarnate (Dickinson)
• 1230. It came at last but prompter Death (Dickinson)
• 1238. Power is a familiar growth — (Dickinson)
• 1256. Not any higher stands the Grave (Dickinson)
• 1260. Because that you are going (Dickinson)
• 1272. So proud she was to die (Dickinson)
• 1274. The Bone that has no Marrow, (Dickinson)
• 1276. ‘Twas later when the summer went (Dickinson)
• 1277. While we were fearing it, it came — (Dickinson)
• 1280. The harm of Years is on him — (Dickinson)
• 1288. Lain in Nature — so suffice us (Dickinson)
• 1294. Two Lengths has every Day — (Dickinson)
• 1296. Death’s Waylaying not the sharpest (Dickinson)
• 1307. That short — potential stir (Dickinson)
• 1310. The Notice that is called the Spring (Dickinson)
• 1384. Praise it — ‘tis dead — (Dickinson)
• 1396. She laid her docile Crescent down (Dickinson)
• 141. Some, too fragile for winter winds (Dickinson)
• 1428. Water makes many Beds (Dickinson)
• 1431. With Pinions of Disdain (Dickinson)
• 144. She bore it till the simple veins (Dickinson)
• 1440. The healed Heart shows its shallow scar (Dickinson)
• 1443. A chilly Peace infests the Grass (Dickinson)
• 1445. Death is the supple Suitor (Dickinson)
• 145. This heart that broke so long — (Dickinson)
• 1453. A Counterfeit — a Plated Person — (Dickinson)
• 1454. Those not live yet (Dickinson)
• 146. On such a night, or such a night, (Dickinson)
• 1462. We knew not that we were to live — (Dickinson)
• 148. All overgrown by cunning moss, (Dickinson)
• 1482. ‘Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe — (Dickinson)
• 149. She went as quiet as the Dew (Dickinson)
• 1490. The Face in evanescence lain (Dickinson)
• 1497. Facts by our side are never sudden (Dickinson)
• 1499. How firm Eternity must look (Dickinson)
• 150. She died — this was the way she died. (Dickinson)
• 1503. More than the Grave is closed to me — (Dickinson)
• 1506. Summer is shorter than any one — (Dickinson)
• 1527. Oh give it Motion — deck it sweet (Dickinson)
• 153. Dust is the only Secret — (Dickinson)
• 1533. On that specific Pillow (Dickinson)
• 154. Except to Heaven, she is nought. (Dickinson)
• 1549. My Wars are laid away in Books — (Dickinson)
• 1558. Of Death I try to think like this — (Dickinson)
• 1576. The Spirit lasts — but in what mode — (Dickinson)
• 158. Dying! Dying in the night! (Dickinson)
• 1588. This Me — that walks and works — must die, (Dickinson)
• 160. Just lost, when I was saved! (Dickinson)
• 1603. The going from a world we know (Dickinson)
• 1626. No Life can pompless pass away — (Dickinson)
• 1630. As from the earth the light Balloon (Dickinson)
• 1631. Oh Future! thou secreted peace (Dickinson)
• 1633. Still own thee — still thou art (Dickinson)
• 1646. Why should we hurry — why indeed (Dickinson)
• 1652. Advance is Life’s condition (Dickinson)
• 1656. Down Time’s quaint stream (Dickinson)
• 1665. I know of people in the Grave (Dickinson)
• 171. Wait till the Majesty of Death (Dickinson)
• 172. ‘Tis so much joy! ‘Tis so much joy! (Dickinson)
• 1731. Love can do all but raise the Dead (Dickinson)
• 1733. No man saw awe, nor to his house (Dickinson)
• 1741. That it will never come again (Dickinson)
• 1742. The distance that the dead have gone (Dickinson)
• 1749. The waters chased him as he fled, (Dickinson)
• 1762. Were natural mortal lady (Dickinson)
• 18. The Gentian weaves her fringes — (Dickinson)
• 187. How many times these low feet staggered — (Dickinson)
• 194. On this long storm the Rainbow rose — (Dickinson)
• 20. Distrustful of the Gentian — (Dickinson)
• 201. Two swimmers wrestled on the spar — (Dickinson)
• 216. Safe in their alabaster chambers (Dickinson)
• 221. It can’t be Summer ! (Dickinson)
• 281. ‘Tis so appalling — it exhilarates — (Dickinson)
• 282. How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand, (Dickinson)
• 286. That after Horror — that ‘twas us — (Dickinson)
• 287. A Clock stopped — (Dickinson)
• 290. Of Bronze — and Blaze — (Dickinson)
• 292. If your Nerve, deny you — (Dickinson)
• 294. The Doomed — regard the Sunrise (Dickinson)
• 3. Sic transit gloria mundi (Dickinson)
• 30. Adrift! A little boat adrift! (Dickinson)
• 301. I reason, Earth is short — (Dickinson)
• 310. Give little Anguish — (Dickinson)
• 314. Nature — sometimes sears a Sapling — (Dickinson)
• 32. When Roses cease to bloom, Sir, (Dickinson)
• 335. ‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so — (Dickinson)
• 35. Nobody knows this little Rose — (Dickinson)
• 354. From Cocoon forth a Butterfly (Dickinson)
• 369. She lay as if at play (Dickinson)
• 380. There is a flower that Bees prefer — (Dickinson)
• 382. For Death — or rather (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)
• 390. It’s coming — the postponeless Creature — (Dickinson)
• 391. A Visitor in Marl — (Dickinson)
• 396. There is a Languor of the Life (Dickinson)
• 40. When I count the seeds (Dickinson)
• 404. How many Flowers fail in Wood — (Dickinson)
• 408. Unit, like Death, for Whom (Dickinson)
• 409. They dropped like Flakes — (Dickinson)
• 411. The Color of the Grave is Green — (Dickinson)
• 412. I read my sentence — steadily — (Dickinson)
• 414. ‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, (Dickinson)
• 417. Is it dead — Find it — (Dickinson)
• 422. More Life — went out — when He went (Dickinson)
• 426. It don’t sound so terrible — quite — as it did — (Dickinson)
• 43. Could live — did live — (Dickinson)
• 432. Do People moulder equally, (Dickinson)
• 449. I died for Beauty — but was scarce (Dickinson)
• 45. There’s something quieter than sleep (Dickinson)
• 457. Sweet — safe — Houses — (Dickinson)
• 465. I heard a Fly buzz — when I died — (Dickinson)
• 468. The Manner of its Death (Dickinson)
• 475. Doom is the House without the Door — (Dickinson)
• 479. She dealt her pretty words like Blades — (Dickinson)
• 483. A Solemn thing within the Soul (Dickinson)
• 496. As far from pity, as complaint — (Dickinson)
• 50. I haven’t told my garden yet — (Dickinson)
• 509. If anybody’s friend be dead (Dickinson)
• 51. I often passed the village (Dickinson)
• 515. No Crowd that has occurred (Dickinson)
• 519. ‘Twas warm — at first — like Us — (Dickinson)
• 52. Whether my bark went down at sea — (Dickinson)
• 531. We dream — it is good we are dreaming — (Dickinson)
• 536. The Heart asks Pleasure — first — (Dickinson)
• 537. Me prove it now — Whoever doubt (Dickinson)
• 539. The Province of the Saved (Dickinson)
• 54. If I should die, (Dickinson)
• 542. I had no Cause to be awake — (Dickinson)
• 547. I’ve seen a Dying Eye (Dickinson)
• 548. Death is potential to that Man (Dickinson)
• 550. I cross till I am weary (Dickinson)
• 559. It knew no Medicine — (Dickinson)
• 56. If I should cease to bring a Rose (Dickinson)
• 560. It knew no lapse, nor Diminuation — (Dickinson)
• 561. I measure every Grief I meet (Dickinson)
• 566. A Dying Tiger — moaned for Drink — (Dickinson)
• 574. My first well Day — since many ill — (Dickinson)
• 577. If I may have it, when it’s dead, (Dickinson)
• 583. A Toad, can die of Light — (Dickinson)
• 586. We talked as Girls do — (Dickinson)
• 588. I cried at Pity — not at Pain — (Dickinson)
• 590. Did you ever stand in a Cavern’s Mouth — (Dickinson)
• 592. What care the Dead, for Chanticleer — (Dickinson)
• 596. When I was small, a Woman died — (Dickinson)
• 598. Three times — we parted — Breath — and I — (Dickinson)
• 605. The Spider holds a Silver Ball (Dickinson)
• 607. Of nearness to her sundered Things (Dickinson)
• 608. Afraid! Of whom am I afraid (Dickinson)
• 610. You’ll find — it when you try to die — (Dickinson)
• 611. I see thee better — in the Dark — (Dickinson)
• 614. In falling Timbers buried — (Dickinson)
• 615. Our journey had advanced — (Dickinson)
• 616. I rose — because He sank — (Dickinson)
• 617. Don’t put up my Thread and Needle — (Dickinson)
• 619. Glee — The great storm is over — (Dickinson)
• 622. To know just how He suffered — would be dear — (Dickinson)
• 623. It was too late for Man — (Dickinson)
• 627. The Tint I cannot take — is best — (Dickinson)
• 629. I watched the Moon around the House (Dickinson)
• 631. Ourselves were wed one summer — dear — (Dickinson)
• 639. My Portion is Defeat — today — (Dickinson)
• 645. Bereavement in their death to feel (Dickinson)
• 649. Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead (Dickinson)
• 654. A long — long Sleep — A famous — Sleep — (Dickinson)
• 656. The name — of it — is Autumn — (Dickinson)
• 665. Dropped into the Ether Acre — (Dickinson)
• 671. She dwelleth in the Ground — (Dickinson)
• 672. The Future — never spoke — (Dickinson)
• 675. Essential Oils — are wrung — (Dickinson)
• 678. Wolfe demanded during dying (Dickinson)
• 682. ‘Twould ease — a Butterfly — (Dickinson)
• 69. Low at my problem bending, (Dickinson)
• 691. Would you like summer Taste of ours. (Dickinson)
• 692. The Sun kept setting — setting — still (Dickinson)
• 698. Life — is what we make of it — (Dickinson)
• 700. You’ve seen Balloons set — Haven’t You (Dickinson)
• 702. A first Mute Coming — (Dickinson)
• 705. Suspense — is Hostiler than Death — (Dickinson)
• 706. Life, and Death, and Giants — (Dickinson)
• 708. I sometimes drop it, for a Quick — (Dickinson)
• 71. A throe upon the features — (Dickinson)
• 712. Because I could not stop for Death — (Dickinson)
• 715. The World — feels Dusty (Dickinson)
• 717. The Beggar Lad — dies early — (Dickinson)
• 718. I meant to find Her when I came — (Dickinson)
• 721. Behind Me — dips Eternity — (Dickinson)
• 723. It tossed — and tossed — (Dickinson)
• 724. It’s easy to invent a Life — (Dickinson)
• 726. We thirst at first — ‘tis Nature’s Act — (Dickinson)
• 731. I want — it pleaded — All its life — (Dickinson)
• 734. If He were living — dare I ask — (Dickinson)
• 735. Upon Concluded Lives (Dickinson)
• 740. You taught me Waiting with Myself — (Dickinson)
• 749. All but Death, can be Adjusted — (Dickinson)
• 754. My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun — (Dickinson)
• 758. These — saw Visions — (Dickinson)
• 759. He fought like those Who’ve nought to lose — (Dickinson)
• 762. The Whole of it came not at once — (Dickinson)
• 764. Presentiment — is that long Shadow — on the Lawn — (Dickinson)
• 769. One and One — are One — (Dickinson)
• 778. This that would greet — an hour ago — (Dickinson)
• 784. Bereaved of all, I went abroad — (Dickinson)
• 786. Severer Service of myself (Dickinson)
• 795. Her final Summer was it — (Dickinson)
• 799. Despair’s advantage is achieved (Dickinson)
• 804. No Notice gave She, but a Change — (Dickinson)
• 813. This quiet Dust was Gentleman and Ladies (Dickinson)
• 822. This Consciousness that is aware (Dickinson)
• 853. When One has given up One’s life (Dickinson)
• 856. There is a finished feeling (Dickinson)
• 858. This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life (Dickinson)
• 874. They won’t frown always — some sweet Day (Dickinson)
• 876. It was a Grave, yet bore no Stone (Dickinson)
• 879. Each Second is the last (Dickinson)
• 889. Crisis is a Hair (Dickinson)
• 890. From Us She wandered now a Year, (Dickinson)
• 892. Who occupies this House (Dickinson)
• 902. The first Day that I was a Life (Dickinson)
• 906. The Admirations — and Contempts — of time — (Dickinson)
• 907. Till Death — is narrow Loving — (Dickinson)
• 908. ‘Tis Sunrise — Little Maid — Hast Thou (Dickinson)
• 911. Too little way the House must lie (Dickinson)
• 960. As plan for Noon and plan for Night (Dickinson)
• 962. Midsummer, was it, when They died — (Dickinson)
• 970. Color — Caste — Denomination — (Dickinson)
• 98. One dignity delays for all — (Dickinson)
• 99. New feet within my garden go — (Dickinson)
• 990. Not all die early, dying young — (Dickinson)
• A Song for Simeon (Eliot)
• Animula (Eliot)
• Aunt Helen (Eliot)
• COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962 (Eliot)
• G, H, I (Eliot)
• IV. Death by Water (Eliot)
• S, T, U (Eliot)
• THE ELDER STATESMAN (Eliot)
• Whispers of Immortality (Eliot)
• Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art (Keats)
• How fever’d is the man, who cannot look (Keats)
• Lines Supposed to Have Been Addressed to Fanny Brawne (Keats)
• Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns’s Country (Keats)
• ODE ON MELANCHOLY (Keats)
• ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE (Keats)
• On Death (Keats)
• On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (Keats)
• Sonnet - The Human Seasons (Keats)
• Sonnet on a Picture of Leander (Keats)
• Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns (Keats)
• Sonnet to Chatterton (Keats)
• Sonnet Written in the Cottage where Burns was Born (Keats)
• Sonnet After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains (Keats)
• Sonnet When I have fears that I may cease to be (Keats)
• Sonnet Why did I laugh tonight No voice will tell (Keats)
• TO AUTUMN (Keats)
• TO MY BROTHERS (Keats)
• A Descent Into the Maelstrom (Poe)
• A Predicament (Poe)
• Al Aaraaf (Poe)
• Annabel Lee (Poe)
• Berenice (Poe)
• Dream-Land (Poe)
• Eldorado (Poe)
• For Annie (Poe)
• Lenore (Poe)
• Loss of Breath (Poe)
• Mesmeric Revelation (Poe)
• Ms. Found in a Bottle (Poe)
• Shadow-A Parable (Poe)
• Silence (Poe)
• Spirits of the Dead (Poe)
• The Assignation (Poe)
• The Bells (Poe)
• The City in the Sea (Poe)
• The Colloquy of Monos and Una (Poe)
• The Conqueror Worm (Poe)
• The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (Poe)
• The Haunted Palace (Poe)
• The Island of the Fay (Poe)
• The Lake — To— (Poe)
• The Masque of the Red Death (Poe)
• The Raven (Poe)
• The Sleeper (Poe)
• The Sphinx (Poe)
• To One in Paradise (Poe)
• Ulalume (Poe)
• 2 HENRY IV (Shakespeare)
• ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (Shakespeare)
• HAMLET (Shakespeare)
• MACBETH (Shakespeare)
• MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Shakespeare)
• OTHELLO (Shakespeare)
• ROMEO AND JULIET (Shakespeare)
• SIR THOMAS MORE (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 12 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 126 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 146 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 22 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 32 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 65 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 73 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 81 (Shakespeare)
• THE HISTORY OF KING LEAR - THE QUARTO TEXT (Shakespeare)
• TIMON OF ATHENS (Shakespeare)
• VARIOUS POEMS (Shakespeare)
• VENUS AND ADONIS (Shakespeare)
• A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine (Whitman)
• A Voice from Death (Whitman)
• After the Supper and Talk (Whitman)
• As Consequent, Etc. (Whitman)
• As I Sit Writing Here (Whitman)
• As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing (Whitman)
• As the Time Draws Nigh (Whitman)
• As They Draw to a Close (Whitman)
• By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame (Whitman)
• FANCIES AT NAVESINK (Whitman)
• Good-Bye My Fancy (Whitman)
• Good-Bye My Fancy! (Whitman)
• L. of G.’s Purport (Whitman)
• Lingering Last Drops (Whitman)
• MY 71st Year (Whitman)
• My Legacy (Whitman)
• Now Finale to the Shore (Whitman)
• O Captain! My Captain! (Whitman)
• O Living Always, Always Dying (Whitman)
• Of Him I Love Day and Night (Whitman)
• Old Age’s Lambent Peaks (Whitman)
• Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s (Whitman)
• Old Salt Kossabone (Whitman)
• On the Beach at Night (Whitman)
• Osceola (Whitman)
• Outlines for a Tomb G. P., Buried 1870 (Whitman)
• Prayer of Columbus (Whitman)
• Proud Music of the Storm (Whitman)
• Queries to My Seventieth Year (Whitman)
• Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht! (Whitman)
• Scented Herbage of My Breast (Whitman)
• So Long! (Whitman)
• Song at Sunset (Whitman)
• Song of Prudence (Whitman)
• Song of the Redwood-Tree (Whitman)
• Sounds of the Winter (Whitman)
• The Dead Emperor (Whitman)
• The Dead Tenor (Whitman)
• The Dismantled Ship (Whitman)
• The Dying Veteran (Whitman)
• The Sleepers (Whitman)
• The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion
• This Compost (Whitman)
• This Dust Was Once the Man (Whitman)
• To One Shortly to Die (Whitman)
• To the Sun-Set Breeze (Whitman)
• To Think of Time (Whitman)
• Unnamed Land (Whitman)
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (Whitman)
• Year of Meteors 1859-60 (Whitman)
• Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours (Whitman)
• You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me (Whitman)
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Wilde)
• A Glimpse of the Army (Conan Doyle)
• Round the Red Lamp (Conan Doyle)
• The Poison Belt (Conan Doyle)
• Waterloo (Conan Doyle)
• First and Last (Belloc)
• Introduction to ‘The Romance of Madame Tussaud’s’ (Belloc)
• On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (Belloc)
• Sonnets and Verse (Belloc)
• The Four Men (Belloc)
• Verses and Sonnets (Belloc)

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