Farewell Poems
How Polly Paid For Her Keep
by Barcroft Henry Tho Boake
Do I know Polly Brown? Do I know her? Why,
damme,
You might as well ask if I know my own name?
It's a wonder you never heard tell of old Sammy,
Her father, my mate in the Crackenback claim.
He asks if I know little Poll! Why, I nursed her
As often, I reckon as old Mother Brown
When they lived at the “Flats,” and old Sam
went a burster
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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.
Leave Me, O Love, Which Reachest But To Dust
by Sir Philip Sidney
Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,
And thou my mind aspire to higher things:
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:
Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.
Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might,
To that sweet yoke, where lasting freedoms be:
Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light,
That doth both shine and give us sight to see.
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For Frank Gardiner
by Owen Suffolk
It is not in a prison drear
Where all around is gloom,
That I would end life's wild career,
And sink into the tomb,
For though my spirit's ever bold
Each tyrant to defy;
Still, still, within a dungeon cold,
I could not calmly die.
It is not that my cheek would pale
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The Alarm
by Thomas Hardy
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War
with Napoleon
In a ferny byway
Near the great South-Wessex Highway,
A homestead raised its breakfast-smoke aloft;
The dew-damps still lay steamless, for the sun had made no sky-way,
And twilight cloaked the croft.
'Twas hard to realize on
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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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Vasily Andreye Zhukovsky (2 poems about Farewell)
February 9 1783 – April 24 1852 / Mishenskoe, Tula Oblast -
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