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Best Poems about mourning (173)

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Requiescat by Oscar Wilde · 72 ♥

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman · 49 ♥

A Pæan by Edgar Allan Poe · 45 ♥

Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 44 ♥

Dead Air by thirdshiftlina · 30 ♥

Canto XIX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 17 ♥

Dirge for Two Veterans by Walt Whitman · 16 ♥

Conclusion by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 15 ♥

Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 15 ♥

Look Down Fair Moon by Walt Whitman · 15 ♥

The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe · 14 ♥

Hush'd Be the Camps to-Day by Walt Whitman · 14 ♥

As at Thy Portals Also Death by Walt Whitman · 14 ♥

Canto IX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 13 ♥

Canto LXXVI by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 13 ♥

Canto XXX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 13 ♥

Canto XVIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 13 ♥

On —— 'Think not of it, sweet one, so' by John Keats · 13 ♥

The distance that the dead have gone by Emily Dickinson · 13 ♥

Canto XCVI by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 12 ♥

Annabel Lee (manuscript) by Edgar Allan Poe · 12 ♥

The last night that she lived by Emily Dickinson · 12 ♥

Catarina to Camoens by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 12 ♥

A Child Asleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 12 ♥

Whispers of Heavenly Death by Walt Whitman · 12 ♥

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