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1. 234. A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1788. Read 1326 times on Poetry Connection.

FATE gave the word, the arrow sped,
  And pierc’d my darling’s heart;
And with him all the joys are fled
  Life can to me impart.
 

By cruel hands the sapling drops,
  In dust dishonour’d laid;
So fell the pride of all my hopes,
  My... (Read full poem)

Hullo! here’s my platoon, the lot I had last year. 
‘The war’ll be over soon.’ 
‘What ’opes?’ 
‘No bloody fear!’ 
Then, ‘Number Seven, ’shun! All present and correct.’
They’re standing in the sun, impassive and erect. 
Young Gibson with his... (Read full poem)

3. Priest At The Serapeum - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Published in 1926. Read 786 times on Poetry Connection.

My dear old father,
who always loved me the same;
my dear old father I lament
who died the day before yesterday, just before dawn.

Jesus Christ, it is my daily effort
to observe the precepts
of Thy most holy church in all my acts,
in all words, in... (Read full poem)

Ah, my dear angry Lord,
Since thou dost love, yet strike;
Cast down, yet help afford;
Sure I will do the like.

I will complain, yet praise;
I will bewail, approve;
And all my sour-sweet days
I will lament and love. (Read full poem)

5. An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize - written by Oliver Goldsmith
Read 979 times on Poetry Connection.

Good people all, with one accord
Lament for Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word,— 
From those who spoke her praise.

The needy seldom passed her door,
And always found her kind;
She freely lent to all the poor,— 
Who left a pledge... (Read full poem)

‘Pass it along, the wiring party’s going out’— 
And yawning sentries mumble, ‘Wirers going out.’ 
Unravelling; twisting; hammering stakes with muffled thud, 
They toil with stealthy haste and anger in their blood. 

The Boche sends up a flare.... (Read full poem)

7. Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples - written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Read 944 times on Poetry Connection.

The sun is warm, the sky is clear,
The waves are dancing fast and bright,
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
The purple noon's transparent might,
The breath of the moist air is light,
Around its unexpanded buds;
Like many a voice of one... (Read full poem)

HONEST 1 Will to Heaven’s away
  And mony shall lament him;
His fau’ts they a’ in Latin lay,
  In English nane e’er kent them.


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9. A Lament - written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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O World! O Life! O Time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
No more -Oh, never more!

Out of the day and night
A joy has taken flight:
Fresh spring, and summer, and... (Read full poem)

An age in her embraces passed
Would seem a winter's day;
When life and light, with envious haste,
Are torn and snatched away.

But, oh! how slowly minutes roll.
When absent from her eyes
That feed my love, which is my soul,
It languishes... (Read full poem)

11. And love has changed to kindliness - written by Rupert Brooke
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When love has changed to kindliness --
Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press
So tight that Time's an old god's dream
Nodding in heaven, and whisper stuff
Seven million years were not enough
To think on after, make it seem
Less than the... (Read full poem)

I can never see my old friend again—
The river Han still streams to the east
I might question some old man of his place—
River and hills—empty is Tsaichou.(Read full poem)

13. In Black Despair - written by Czeslaw Milosz
From New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001. Published in 2001. Read 1140 times on Poetry Connection.

In grayish doubt and black despair,
I drafted hymns to the earth and the air,
pretending to joy, although I lacked it.
The age had made lament redundant.

So here's the question -- who can answer it --
Was he a brave man or a hypocrite?(Read full poem)

I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone,
I feel I am alone.
I check'd him while he spoke; yet, could he speak,
Alas! I would not check.
For reasons not to love him once I sought,
And wearied all my thought
To vex myself and him: I now would... (Read full poem)

15. Kindliness - written by Rupert Brooke
Read 380 times on Poetry Connection.

When love has changed to kindliness --
Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press
So tight that Time's an old god's dream
Nodding in heaven, and whisper stuff
Seven million years were not enough
To think on after, make it seem
Less than the... (Read full poem)

Ah, but the City of Pain: how strange its streets are:
the false silence of sound drowning sound,
and there--proud, brazen, effluence from the mold of emptiness--
the gilded hubbub, the bursting monument.
How an Angel would stamp out their market of... (Read full poem)

17. 49. Epigram on the said Occasion - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1784. Read 602 times on Poetry Connection.

O DEATH, had’st thou but spar’d his life,
  Whom we this day lament,
We freely wad exchanged the wife,
  And a’ been weel content.
Ev’n as he is, cauld in his graff,
  The swap we yet will do’t;
Tak thou the carlin’s... (Read full poem)

LAMENT him, Mauchline husbands a’,
  He aften did assist ye;
For had ye staid hale weeks awa,
  Your wives they ne’er had miss’d ye.
 

Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye press
  To school in bands thegither,
O tread ye lightly on his... (Read full poem)

19. A Lament - written by William Drummond
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My thoughts hold mortal strife;
I do detest my life,
And with lamenting cries
Peace to my soul to bring
Oft call that prince which here doth monarchize:
But he, grim grinning King,
Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surprise,
Late having decked... (Read full poem)

WHO will hear me? Whom shall I lament to?
Who would pity me that heard my sorrows?
Ah, the lip that erst so many raptures
Used to taste, and used to give responsive,
Now is cloven, and it pains me sorely;
And it is not thus severely wounded
By... (Read full poem)

21. Autumn - written by Siegfried Sassoon
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October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves 
The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood 
In whose lament I hear a voice that grieves 
For battle’s fruitless harvest, and the feud 
Of outraged men. Their lives are like the leaves
Scattered in... (Read full poem)

Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy.
Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay,
Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.

Oh, could I lose all father now! For why
Will man lament the state... (Read full poem)

23. Girl's Lament - written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Read 2470 times on Poetry Connection.

In the years when we were
all children, this inclining
to be alone so much was gentle;
others' time passed fighting,
and one had one's faction,
one's near, one's far-off place,
a path, an animal, a picture.

And I still imagined, that life
would... (Read full poem)

Ye have been fresh and green,
Ye have been fill'd with flowers;
And ye the walks have been
Where maids have spent their hours.

You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come,
To kiss and bear away
The richer cowslips home.

You've... (Read full poem)

25. 28. Poor Mailie’s Elegy - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1783. Read 753 times on Poetry Connection.

LAMENT in rhyme, lament in prose,
Wi’ saut tears trickling down your nose;
Our bardie’s fate is at a close,
            Past a’ remead!
The last, sad cape-stane o’ his woes;
            Poor Mailie’s dead!
 

  It’s no... (Read full poem)