I have to search 3 good poems for school I've got one real good one with 're-birth' as theme. Now I've got to find two more The theme should be something like 'death' or birth. I'll look for myself, but I saw some people here use poems with their images, so I thought that maybe you could give me some of those. I need the poems ofcoarse, but also the writer if that's possible. The poem also has to be made by a writer that has published at least one book of poetry. I hope you can help me out. Thank you in advance. Rayraz.

You shouldn't have trouble finding those types of poems.. very prevalent in poetry for as long as poetry has been around. I pretty much stick to the classics... so Emily Dickinson springs to mind.. http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/ Found this list on a search.. some big names here too.. http://members.tripod.com/~Ertosi/Poetry/Poetry/Death.html

Oh great! thanx. I only got amature poetry or anonime poetry when google-ing. This'll help me out. Many thanx.

Or you might try Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress". It has death as its theme. Kinda. Sorta. Somebody called it "one of the nicer versions of 'can I have a shag, please?' in literature." :-) But it does talk about death and the shortness of our time. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/marvell1.html Then, Kipling has some interesting stuff: http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Rudyard_Kipling/kipling_the_explanation.htm http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Rudyard_Kipling/kipling_the_song_of_the_dead.htm Or the pretty strong http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/grave_of_hundred_head.html Pre-Raphaelites and Romantics had oodles of poems on death. Dante Gabriel Rosetti, for instance: http://www.love-poem.org.uk/silentnoon.htm or http://www.themediadrome.com/content/poetry/rosetti_ballad_dead_ladies.htm Then, Thomas Gray's "Elegy written in a country church-yard", one of the better known pieces in English literature: http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/Elegy.htm He also has "Ode on the death of a favorite cat" http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=2495 I hope you'll find something you like.

Wow thanx so much! This really helps me. I have never been very good with poetry, so I didn't really know the great names. The result was that I only found anonymous or amature poems when google-ing, but with all these links and names I should have no problem. Thanx again.

or there's william blake's songs of innocence or songs of experience

Attached Link: http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/blake/poembrowse.html

sorry, here's the link to it

Just for your information. Every poem Emily Dickinson wrote can be sung to "The Yellow Rose Of Texas"... My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night. etc.. Try it! How's that for useless trivia?

and if you really want a "nicer version" of "can I have a shag, please?", there's always Donne's "The Flea" It's even kinda about death (but mostly about sex)

I don't know if these will help or not - they were each brought up by someone either here or on Poser Forum within the last couple of months:

Dante

Arlo

Omar

Thanx very much to all of you. you're a great help :) I'll mail these links to my friends too. They'll also like them.

Attached Link: http://www.bartleby.com/100/

John Bartlett's familiar quotations is a book you can use to look up subjects or quotes. The 1911 version is online at the above link. Typing "death" hit on the following poets: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (18881965), U.S.-bornBritish poet, critic. Sweeney Agonistes. Death or life or life or death Death is life and life is death I gotta use words when I talk to you But if you understand or if you dont Thats nothing to me and nothing to you We all gotta do what we gotta do Anne Sexton (19281974), U.S. poet. The Death Baby. Death, you lie in my arms like a cherub, as heavy as bread dough. Your milky wings are as still as plastic George Herbert (15931633), British poet. Death (l. 14). . Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing, Nothing but bones, The sad effect of sadder grones; Thy mouth was open, but thou couldst not sing I could go on for pages and pages but you get the Idea.

This thread is so poetic...

If you want to go modern, try Philip Larkin. Don't know if any of his stuff is on the net, but he has a few that fit your needs.

It diversified... Lame, I know, but couldn't come up with anything better. BTW, if you really think that's poetic, take a look at Grave of Hundred Heads. ;-)

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Death is depressing, And so are you. This is why I'm not a poet. :^)

How about the World War 1 poets Ivor Gurney Wilfred Owen Kipling Sigfried Sassoon Rupert Brooke Some stirring stuff there