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The term "w b yeats for my own epitaph" has been searched for 27 times on the American Poems site since April 23rd, 2007.
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1. Yeats Died Saturday In France - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1939.
Read 1012 times on American Poems.
Yeats died Saturday in France.
Freedom from his animal
Has come at last in alien Nice,
His heart beat separate from his will:
He knows at last the old abyss
Which always faced his staring face.
No ability, no dignity
Can fail him now who trained so... (Read full poem)
2. Cassius Hueffer - written by Edgar Lee Masters
From Spoon River Anthology.
Published in 1915.
Read 744 times on American Poems.
They have chiseled on my stone the words:
'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man.'
Those who knew me smile
As they read this empty rhetoric.
My epitaph should have... (Read full poem)
3. Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 1468 times on American Poems.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH
A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL,
DIED SUDDENLY OF "STRANGER'S FEVER"
NOV'R 5th 1843
AGED 22
He died of "Stranger's Fever" when his youth
Had scarcely melted into manhood, so
The chiselled legend runs; a brother's... (Read full poem)
4. Easter Week - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 2394 times on American Poems.
(In memory of Joseph Mary Plunkett)
("Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.")
William Butler Yeats.
"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave."
Then, Yeats, what gave that Easter... (Read full poem)
5. Epitaphs - written by Anne Bradstreet
Read 1557 times on American Poems.
Her Mother's Epitaph
Here lies
A worthy matron of unspotted life,
A loving mother and obedient wife,
A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor,
Whom oft she fed, and clothed with her store;
To servants wisely aweful, but yet kind,
And as they... (Read full poem)
6. Epitaph - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 3443 times on American Poems.
Heap not on this mound
Roses that she loved so well:
Why bewilder her with roses,
That she cannot see or smell?
She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.(Read full poem)
8. Epitaph For A Romantic Woman - written by Louise Bogan
Read 1280 times on American Poems.
She has attained the permanence
She dreamed of, where old stones lie sunning.
Untended stalks blow over her
Even and swift, like young men running.
Always in the heart she loved
Others had lived, -- she heard their laughter.
She lies where... (Read full poem)
9. Dream Song 88: Op. posth. no. 11 - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 608 times on American Poems.
In slack times visit I the violent dead
and pick their awful brains. Most seem to feel
nothing is secret more
to my disdain I find, when we who fled
cherish the knowings of both worlds, conceal
more, beat on the floor,
where Bhain is... (Read full poem)
10. Dogheads - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1667 times on American Poems.
AMONG the grassroots
In the moonlight, who comes circling,
red tongues and high noses?
Is one of ’em Buck and one of ’em
White Fang?
In the moonlight, who are they, cross-legged,
telling their stories over and over?
Is one of... (Read full poem)
11. Epitaph On The World - written by Henry David Thoreau
Read 7679 times on American Poems.
Here lies the body of this world,
Whose soul alas to hell is hurled.
This golden youth long since was past,
Its silver manhood went as fast,
An iron age drew on at last;
'Tis vain its character to tell,
The several fates which it befell,... (Read full poem)
12. The Big Heart - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4541 times on American Poems.
"Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold." - From an essay by W. B. Yeats
Big heart,
wide as a watermelon,
but wise as birth,
there is so much abundance
in the people I have:
Max, Lois, Joe, Louise,
Joan, Marie, Dawn,... (Read full poem)
13. Epitaph for a Darling Lady - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3611 times on American Poems.
All her hours were yellow sands,
Blown in foolish whorls and tassels;
Slipping warmly through her hands;
Patted into little castles.
Shiny day on shiny day
Tumbled in a rainbow clutter,
As she flipped them all away,
Sent them spinning down the... (Read full poem)
14. Dear Reader - written by Billy Collins
Read 3417 times on American Poems.
Baudelaire considers you his brother,
and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs
as if to make sure you have not closed the book,
and now I am summoning you up again,
attentive ghost, dark silent figure standing
in the doorway of these... (Read full poem)
15. Richard Bone - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 2166 times on American Poems.
When I first came to Spoon River
I did not know whether what they told me
Was true or false.
They would bring me an epitaph
And stand around the shop while I worked
And say "He was so kind," "He was wonderful,"
"She was the sweetest... (Read full poem)
16. Epitaph - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 6454 times on American Poems.
The first time I died, I walked my ways;
I followed the file of limping days.
I held me tall, with my head flung up,
But I dared not look on the new moon's cup.
I dared not look on the sweet young rain,
And between my ribs was a gleaming... (Read full poem)
17. What the Sexton Said - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 346 times on American Poems.
Your dust will be upon the wind
Within some certain years,
Though you be sealed in lead to-day
Amid the country's tears.
When this idyllic churchyard
Becomes the heart of town,
The place to build garage or inn,
They'll throw your... (Read full poem)
18. Percival Sharp - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 651 times on American Poems.
Observe the clasped hands!
Are they hands of farewell or greeting,
Hands that I helped or hands that helped me?
Would it not be well to carve a hand
With an inverted thumb, like Elagabalus?
And yonder is a broken chain,
The weakest-link idea... (Read full poem)
19. A High-Toned Old Christian Woman - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 3164 times on American Poems.
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
We agree in principle. That's clear. But... (Read full poem)
20. On a Honey Bee - written by Philip Freneau
Read 5762 times on American Poems.
Thou born to sip the lake or spring,
Or quaff the waters of the stream,
Why hither come on vagrant wing?--
Does Bacchus tempting seem--
Did he, for you, the glass prepare?--
Will I admit you to a share?
Did storms harrass or foes perplex,
Did wasps... (Read full poem)
21. Ann Arbor Variations - written by Frank O\'Hara
Read 1095 times on American Poems.
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Wet heat drifts through the afternoon
like a campus dog, a fraternity ghost
waiting to stay home from football games.
The arches are empty clear to the sky.
Except for the leaves: those lashes of our
thinking and dreaming and drinking sight.
The... (Read full poem)
22. On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell - written by Phillis Wheatley
Published in 1769.
Read 377 times on American Poems.
Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread,
See Sewell number'd with the happy dead.
Hail, holy man, arriv'd th' immortal shore,
Though we shall hear thy warning voice no more.
Come, let us all behold with wishful eyes
The saint ascending to... (Read full poem)
23. Epitaphs For Two Players - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 497 times on American Poems.
I. EDWIN BOOTH
An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California. There were few theatres, but the hotels were provided with crude assembly rooms for strolling players.
The... (Read full poem)
24. The Light o' the Moon - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 521 times on American Poems.
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood and disposition]
The Old Horse in the City
The moon's a peck of corn. It lies
Heaped up for me to eat.
I wish that I... (Read full poem)
25. A Message to America - written by Alan Seeger
Read 1150 times on American Poems.
You have the grit and the guts, I know;
You are ready to answer blow for blow
You are virile, combative, stubborn, hard,
But your honor ends with your own back-yard;
Each man intent on his private goal,
You have no feeling for the whole;... (Read full poem)
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