Soft is the travelling on the road to death! But guilt has passed it? men not fit to die? O, hush -- for He that made us all is by! Human we're all -- all men, all born of mothers; All our own selves in the worn-out shape of others; Our used, and oh, be sure, not ...
Published by Family Friend Poems September 2006 with permission of the Author. Poem For An Aunt Who Died I close my eyes as I wipe a tear. I just keep wishing you were still here. I will hold all the memories deep in my heart. ...
But the one who really took my friend for a ride was the electrician. He used more … cable … than … it takes to build a battle ship. (Roger W. Babson, in a syndicated newspaper column, 1951) turn one’s face to the wallTo die; more precisely, to make the final gesture of ac...
Death: A Friend to Be Welcomed, Not an Enemy to Be Defeated Ed Rosa Ainley Pandora, pounds sterling7.99, p 232 ISBN 0 04 440928 1The 20 essays and eight poems by women about the deaths of their mothers in this anthology are, with several exceptions, hardly notable as literature. But th...
Published by Family Friend Poems February 2017 with permission of the Author. Mourning The Death Of A Best Friend Why is the world still spinning? Doesn't it know you're gone? It's an end or some kind of beginning But for everyone else life goes on ...
However, when she tried having her poems published for the first time, she failed and her poems were refused by a magazine. This led Emily to believe that the public would never care for her works, and then she never attempted to have any of her works published again. After the Civil ...
But at other times the poems more distinctly imagined their maker's real vanishing, the deathward drag to which we are all subject, and to these scenes Mark brought a combination of classical amplitude, wit, stoicism, and elegance that was all his own. Tribute to Mark Strand 3.3) In Royal...
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During the final weeks of her life, Barb continued to love on all of us, even as she lay bed-ridden. I would drop off a meal for her family, hoping to uplift my friend. And she uplifted me. She, who was dying. She never let me leave without kissing my cheek. I hold that prec...
Death Poems for Dad Here are some death poems for dad: "Father" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox My father sleeps; he takes his rest With the best and bravest; he Was always ready to his quest Of duty or of chivalry. No shirker from a rugged path, ...