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“dead” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 3 / 162 1800s 26 / 683 1850s 47 / 939 1900s 41 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 26 with this theme Show all eras

A Dirge

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A Dirge

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

And Thou Art Dead

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And Thou Art Dead

by Lord Byron · English

22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824 (~36)

Break, Break, Break

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Break, Break, Break

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

Coronach, or Death-Wail

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Coronach, or Death-Wail

by Charles Mackay · English

27 March 1814 - 24 December 1889 (~75)

Death

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Death

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · English

4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822 (~30)

Footsteps of Angels

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Footsteps of Angels

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Haunted Houses

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Haunted Houses

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

June

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June

by William Cullen Bryant · English

3 November 1794 - 12 June 1878 (~84)

Loch na Garr

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Loch na Garr

by Lord Byron · English

22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824 (~36)

My days among the Dead are past

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My days among the Dead are past

by Robert Southey · English

12 August 1774 - 21 March 1843 (~69)

Oh! breathe not his name

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Oh! breathe not his name

by Thomas Moore · English

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

Peace Be Thine

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Peace Be Thine

by Winthrop Mackworth Praed · English

28 July 1802 - 15 July 1839 (~37)

Remembrance

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Remembrance

by Emily Brontë · English

30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848 (~30)

Second Life

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Second Life

by William Edmondstoune Aytoun · English

21 June 1813 - 4 August 1865 (~52)

Song of a Maid Whose Love Is Dead

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Song of a Maid Whose Love Is Dead

by Thomas Lovell Beddoes · English

30 June 1803 - 26 January 1849 (~46)

Thanatopsis

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Thanatopsis

by William Cullen Bryant · English

3 November 1794 - 12 June 1878 (~84)

The Death-Race

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The Death-Race

by Robert Stephen Hawker · English

3 December 1803 - 15 August 1875 (~72)

The Haunted House

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The Haunted House

by Felicia Dorothea Hemans · English

25 September 1793 - 16 May 1835 (~42)

The Maid’s Lament

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The Maid’s Lament

by Walter Savage Landor · English

30 January 1775 - 17 September 1864 (~89)

The Meeting

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The Meeting

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Mermaid Tavern

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The Mermaid Tavern

by John Keats · English

31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821 (~26)

The Poets

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The Poets

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Sleeper

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The Sleeper

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

Thoughts in a Church-Yard

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Thoughts in a Church-Yard

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

When youthful faith hath fled

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When youthful faith hath fled

by John Gibson Lockhart · English

12 June 1794 - 25 November 1854 (~60)

Work

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Work

by Charles Lamb · English

10 February 1775 - 27 December 1834 (~59)

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