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Best Poems about mourning (173)

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Requiescat by Oscar Wilde · 85 ♥

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman · 72 ♥

A Pæan by Edgar Allan Poe · 62 ♥

Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 62 ♥

To J. S. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 40 ♥

Canto XCVI by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 40 ♥

On —— 'Think not of it, sweet one, so' by John Keats · 39 ♥

Catarina to Camoens by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 39 ♥

A Child Asleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 39 ♥

Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 38 ♥

To J. S. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 36 ♥

Look Down Fair Moon by Walt Whitman · 36 ♥

Canto LXXXII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 35 ♥

Canto IX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 34 ♥

To William Shelley (2) by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 34 ♥

There's been a death in the opposite house by Emily Dickinson · 34 ♥

Whispers of Heavenly Death by Walt Whitman · 34 ♥

Canto XIX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 33 ♥

The last night that she lived by Emily Dickinson · 33 ♥

The distance that the dead have gone by Emily Dickinson · 33 ♥

A Child's Grave at Florence by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 33 ♥

Hymn of Dead Soldiers by Walt Whitman · 33 ♥

The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 32 ♥

Death (1) by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 32 ♥

Dirge for Two Veterans by Walt Whitman · 32 ♥

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