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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
A. E. Housman1859–1936To an Athlete Dying Young (1896)In context
- Sports
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love
W. B. Yeats1865–1939An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (1919)In context
- War & Peace
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)In context
- Time
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air⁠—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
Alan Seeger1888–1916I Have a Rendezvous with Death (1916)In context
- War & Peace
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae1872–1918In Flanders Fields (1915)In context
- War & Peace
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke1887–1915The Soldier (1915)In context
- Patriotism
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
William Henry Davies1871–1940Leisure (1911)In context
- Time
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends⁠—
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892–1950First Fig (1918)In context
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Sara Teasdale1884–1933There Will Come Soft Rains (1918)In context
- Nature
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
Claude McKay1889–1948If We Must Die (1919)In context
- Courage
Time like an ever-rolling stream
Bears all its Sons away;
They fly forgotten as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
Isaac Watts1674–1748O God, Our Help in Ages Past (1719)In context
- Time
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne1837–1909The Garden of Proserpine (1866)In context
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods
Thomas Babington Macaulay1800–1859Horatius (1842)In context
- Courage
She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Madame Bovary (1857), Part I, Chapter NineIn context
A coral tomb makes a quiet grave; and I trust that I and my comrades will find no other.
Jules Verne1828–1905Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XVIIIIn context