Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, ... 100 Inspirational Quotes That Will Motivate and Inspire You. ... In life and death a chainless soul, ...

This poem is about Aunt Jennifer’s constrained life and eventual death, but it’s also about her liberation and her immortality. Its ending is tragic and triumphant.

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

How a poem a day can ease life’s pain and help us through the hardest times. ... While we were at home, learning to bake bread, they were in First World War conditions dealing with death every day.

“Maybe this is the thing that's most exciting for me right now – is this sense of not believing anymore that we're supposed to be happy. That in fact, some of the most profound, wonderful ...

Three Poetry Books That Take the Measure of Life, and Death. ... New and Selected Poems, 2002-2022 (Norton, 264 pp., $26.95) with every kind of poem one could possibly ask for.

This poem was written in the 1930's by Clare Harner after the sudden death of her brother in America. Originally titled "Immortality", Harner's poem soon gained popularity as a eulogy.

A poem to mark the death of the Queen has been penned by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and features one of her favourite ... Armitage writes of "A promise made and kept for life - that was your gift".