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Best Poems about loss (879)

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Requiescat by Oscar Wilde · 72 ♥

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

To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe · 42 ♥

To ——. 'Music, when soft voices die' by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 33 ♥

Unknown Lock by mizdor · 30 ♥

Dead Air by thirdshiftlina · 30 ♥

The Six-Month Lag by Arilume · 23 ♥

Break, Break, Break, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 22 ♥

Lines: 'That time is dead for ever' by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 20 ♥

Red Bar by Vivcer · 19 ♥

As by the dead we love to sit by Emily Dickinson · 18 ♥

Canto XIX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 17 ♥

Sonnet VI by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 17 ♥

We outgrow love, like other things by Emily Dickinson · 16 ♥

Along the Potomac by Emily Dickinson · 15 ♥

The Past by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 14 ♥

Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare · 14 ♥

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

IV - Not Cecrops kept my bees. My olives bore by Fernando Pessoa · 14 ♥

Weight Limit by Vex Grai · 13 ♥

Ground by Noah · 13 ♥

Canto LXXVI by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 13 ♥

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

Some Days retired from the rest by Emily Dickinson · 13 ♥

Except to heaven, she is nought by Emily Dickinson · 13 ♥

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