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Best Poems about loss (822)

Discover the top poems about loss on The Poet's Place.

Requiescat by Oscar Wilde · 67 ♥

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman · 46 ♥

To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe · 40 ♥

Unknown Lock by mizdor · 30 ♥

Dead Air by thirdshiftlina · 30 ♥

To ——. 'Music, when soft voices die' by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 30 ♥

The Six-Month Lag by Arilume · 23 ♥

Red Bar by Vivcer · 19 ♥

Break, Break, Break, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 18 ♥

Weight Limit by Vex Grai · 13 ♥

Ground by Noah · 13 ♥

Dust Settles by Jonah F. · 10 ♥

Lines: 'That time is dead for ever' by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 10 ♥

As by the dead we love to sit by Emily Dickinson · 10 ♥

The Fracture Point by Adrian · 9 ♥

Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare · 9 ♥

Small Yields by patientarrive · 8 ♥

Canto LXXVI by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 8 ♥

We learn in the retreating by Emily Dickinson · 8 ♥

Sonnet VI by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 8 ♥

Irreparableness by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 8 ♥

Half-Eaten Name by Mercy B. · 7 ♥

Canto XIX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 7 ♥

Canto X by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 7 ♥

The Past by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 7 ♥

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