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Dead, The  (by: Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915))
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
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Debt Unpayable, The  (by: Francis William Bourdillon (1852 - 1921))
What have I given,
Bold sailor on the sea,
In earth or heaven,
That you should die for me?
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Dedication, A  (by: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936))
My new-cut ashlar takes the light
Where crimson-blank the windows flare;
By my own work, before the night,
Great Overseer, I make my prayer.
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Delayed Till She Had Ceased To know  (by: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
Delayed till she had ceased to know --
Delayed till in its vest of snow
Her loving bosom lay...
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Dirge  (by: Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835))
Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now!
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Life Poems Books

Dissolute  (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
Many years have I still to burn, detained
Like a candle flame on this body; but I enshine
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Ditty  (by: Thomas Hardy)
Beneath a knap where flown
Nestlings play,
Within walls of weathered stone,
Far away
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Dolor Of Autumn  (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
The acrid scents of autumn,
Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
Everything, tear-trembling stars of autumn
And the snore of the night in my ear.
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Donkey, The  (by: G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936))
"The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will...
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Down On The Shore  (by: William Allingham (1824-1889))
Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!
Where the salt smell cheers the land;
Where the tide moves bright under boundless light,
And the surge on the glittering strand;
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