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