Tag Archive: Pain

Grief for thy dead

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Grief’ (1842)

Literature

Break, break, break

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Break, break, break’ (Publ. 1842)

Literature

Let thy time be when it will

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, ‘To Death’ (c.1712)

Literature

What sudden pangs shot thro’ each aching heart,
When, Death, thy messenger dispatch’d his dart?

Phyllis Wheatley, ‘On the Death of J. C. an Infant’ (1773)

Literature