Grief

Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Whenever Richard Cory went down town
Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa
My black face fades,
Memorial Day for the War Dead by Yehuda Amichai
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
I sit in one of the dives
Easter 1916 by W. B. Yeats
I have met them at close of day
The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
I measure every Grief I meet (561) by Emily Dickinson
I measure every Grief I meet
In Louisiana by Albert Bigelow Paine
The long, gray moss that softly swings
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 by Martín Espada
Alabanza. Praise the cook with the shaven head
Hum by Ann Lauterbach
The days are beautiful
A Litany by Gregory Orr
The Stolen Child by W. B. Yeats
Where dips the rocky highland
Stillbirth by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
On a platform, I heard someone call out your name
Assault to Abjury by Raymond McDaniel
Rain commenced, and wind did
On His Deceased Wife by John Milton
Me thought I saw my late espousèd Saint
Lycidas by John Milton
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more
Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind
Requiescat by Matthew Arnold
Strew on her roses, roses
Against Elegies by Marilyn Hacker
James has cancer. Catherine has cancer
Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor
Ah, what avails the sceptred race