Tag Archives: Short Poems about Death

1. : : Anonymous, ‘Inscription in St Mary Magdalene Church, Milk Street, London : :: Grass of levity,Span in brevity,Flowers’ felicity,Fire of misery,Winds’ stability,Is mortality. Included in the wonderfully expansive Penguin Book of English Verse, this short inscription about mortality runs, in full : is A fine example of the memento mori, literally set inContinue reading “Inscription in St Mary Magdalene Church, Milk Street, Lindon : Anonymous : ( 1 ) : : Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife : Sir Henry Wotton : ( 2 ) : : The Bustle in a House : EMILY DICKINSON : ( 3 ) : An Epitaph : A E Housman : ( 4 ) : : Death : W B Yeats : ( 5 ) : : Short Poems : Death Poems : :”