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Farewell To Barn And Stack And Tree

by Alfred Edward Housman

"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell to Severn shore.
Terence, look your last at me,
For I come home no more.

"The sun burns on the half-mown hill,
By now the blood is dried;
And Maurice amongst the hay lies still
And my knife is in his side.

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Crossing The Bar

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

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Night

by William Blake

The sun descending in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
The moon, like a flower,
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.

Farewell, green fields and happy groves,

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All Things Will Die

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

All Things will Die

Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing

Under my eye;
Warmly and broadly the south winds are blowing

Over the sky.
One after another the white clouds are fleeting;
Every heart this May morning in joyance is beating

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The Poplar Field

by William Cowper

The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade:
The winds play no longer and sing in the leaves,
Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives.

Twelve years have elapsed since I first took a view
Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew,
And now in the grass behold they are laid,
And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.

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Recent Farewell Poems

Farewell

by Mario Odekerken

The last tear fell
at the moment
you vanished from sight.
Silence remained
like a closed door
I could never pass through.

Afscheid

by Mario Odekerken

De laatste traan viel
op het moment
toen jij uit het zicht verdween.
De stilte bleef achter
als een gesloten deur
waar ik niet meer doorheen kon.

Abschied 02

by Mario Odekerken

Die letzte Träne fiel
in dem Moment,
als du aus dem Blickfield
verschwandst.
Die Stille blieb zurück
wie eine verschlossene Tür,
durch die ich nie mehr gehen konnte.

Because of you the sun cries

by Mario Odekerken

The sky does not rise with joy today.
Its light breaks like glass on the edge
of the earth,
shattered by your silence.

The clouds move slowly,
as if carrying the weight of a name
no longer spoken.
Birds forget the direction of flight.
Even the wind loses interest in dancing.

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Sweet Adieu

by Peter Dr Lim

After Christina Rossetti

Read me a poem

sing me a song

daylight is fading

soon I'll be gone-

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