Poems about grief
It's Easy As A Second Future
when peace was far away 
but not the grief that nestled close
it's easy as a sign 
will in a second future 
Since Grief And Then The List Is Done
since grief and joy are done
for life be love 
and then the list is done 
presents it in the act 
Like A Thief
there's grief of want, and grief of cold, 
and dream the days away,
and held my ears, and like a thief
when simple you, and i,
But Stopped, When Qualified To Love, But Not
a fear will urge it where
it would be life 
it tried to be a rose 
a bomb to justify 
whether to reveal 
one port suffices for a brig like mine 
might death enable thee 
it feels a shame to be alive 
but not the grief that nestled close
perhaps he doesn't know the house 
but stopped, when qualified to guess
nor had i time to love, but since
tell him the page i didn't write 
Then How The Place
i had rather dwell like her
then how the grief got sleepy some 
we two looked so alike 
that we can show today?
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they said that jesus always came 
if love be just beyond 
some think it service in the place
The Hills Have A Thief Quick Startled
justified through calvaries of love 
of all the birds that be 
and life would all be spring!
when choice of life is past 
her polar time behind 
himself to him a fortune 
grief is a thief quick startled 
the hills have a way then 
then eddies like a rose away 
but turning back 'twas slow 
and would not let the seconds by 
each little doubt and fear,
Perhaps The Former
that puts the heart abroad 
that popocatapel exists 
if grief the largest part 
the brain is just the weight of god 
that were the mind dissolved 
are one and yet the former
perhaps the other peace 
So, I Had Worn It, Every Day,
dying annuls the power to kill,
it burned me in the night 
see the bird reach it!
we bee and i live by the quaffing 
to wait an hour is long 
it is too difficult a grace 
now, do you doubt that your bird was true?
so, i could buy it 
for i had worn it, every day,
and been myself that easy thing
then how the grief got sleepy some 
it takes me all the while to poise 
Be Of Consciousness, Her Awful Mate
of consciousness, her awful mate
of velvet, is his countenance,
but just to look it in the eye 
the dying need but little, dear, 
be of me afraid,
if, haply, any say to me
to make sure all's asleep 
the thinking how they walked alive 
then how the grief got sleepy some 
then stopped no other track!
themselves go out 
for their sake not for ours 
i too if he 
what shall i do when the summer troubles 
Other Went To The Grief That Nestled
but not the grief that nestled close
it's thoughts and just two heart 
and other went to turn the mill 
one hand the tools 
and closer to the fire 
had it a notice from the noon
another way to see 
so go your way and i'll go mine 
The Years
i can wade grief 
then i turn soldier too,
oh, wouldn't you?
how could i of him?
to whom this would have pointed me
who till they died, did not alive become 
such bliss had i for all the years 
as we it were that perished 
besides it isn't even it slants
the thing belonged to us 
who'd be the fool to stay?
They No More Remember Me
since grief and joy are done
they tell it to the hills 
it cannot be again 
and they no more remember me 
the hillsides must not know it 
if what we could were what we would 
If The Anguish Go
i could not feel the anguish go 
if any ask me how 
i'll tell you how i tried to keep
if love be just beyond 
i'll tell thee all how bald it grew 
an awe if it should be like that
and if the further heaven 
through knowing where we only hope 
best grief is tongueless before he'll tell 
who knows but we'd reach the sun?
what death knows so well 
so still so cool 
we two looked so alike 
i'm that or nought 
Yet Held My Breath, The Same
lest firmament should fail for me 
they'll carry him!
and this one do not feel the same 
then "great" it be if that please thee 
but tell him that it ceased to feel 
best grief is tongueless before he'll tell 
if one wake at midnight better 
yet held my breath, the while 
and fear is like the one
it's thoughts and just two heart 
it suggests to our faith 
we grow accustomed to the dark 
that arise and set about us 
but tell him that it ceased to feel 
He And He And He And He
it ceased to hurt me, though so slow
lest that should conquer me,
if such it prove, it prove too
as that the slave is gone,
there's been a death, in the opposite house,
and he and he in mighty list
nor definitely what it was,
when it goes, 't is like the distance
the purple could not keep the east,
the orchard, when the sun is on 
but not the grief that nestled close
and grateful that a thing
so when 't was time to see,
as i, who testify it
I Know Why When Time Is Tongueless Before
best grief is tongueless before he'll tell 
if you'll just tell me so 
i shall know why when time is over 
i know not which, desire, or grant 
because i could not stop for death,
and he would come again 
not that we did, shall be the test
Who Till They Sight The Land
oh, could you catch her last refrain 
some know him whom we knew 
then how the grief got sleepy some 
this put away
i've known her from an ample nation 
but just for one to stipulate 
he comes just so far toward the town 
as wrecked men deem they sight the land 
if town it have beyond itself 
and he would come again 
who till they died, did not alive become 
i too if he 
i offered being for it 
it was not sickness then 
Let Me Into Your Grief, I'm Not So
and the more loitering are turned
the leaves are all dead on the group,
the road would fail; and on that side the fire 
across the reeds to a window light,
before them over their heads to dry in the sun,
slave to a springtime passion for the earth,
he's come to help you ditch the meadow,
man came to tell it what was wrong,
though doubtful whether he stayed to see,
he said he couldn't make the boy believe
something to sell? that wasn't how it sounded,
i wasn�t going to tell you and i mustn�t, 
let me into your grief, i'm not so much
for i have had too much
i've been away once yes, i've been away,
But The World's Evil, I Won't Have
but the world's evil, i won't have grief so
but dared not spare to do the best we could
to seek the brook if still it ran;
that ought to be worth something, and may yet,
of really never having meant to keep it,
let�s all but bring to life this old volcano, 
so old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
If The Air
my instep arch not only keeps the ache,
it only gives our wish for blue a whet,
yet not enough, a bullet through and through,
she scorns a pasture withering to the root,
the birds that came to it through the air
to which you give the assenting voice,'
to see if the birds lived the first night through,
if we who sight along it round the world,
and that was why it whispered and did not speak,
grief may have thought it was grief,
no, not as there is a time to talk,
something there is that doesn't love a wall,
it is the autumnal mood with a difference,
it was a cord of maple, cut and split
The Woods Around It - It Is Theirs,
as anyone, he won't be made ashamed
grief may have thought it was grief,
the woods around it have it - it is theirs,
but the thing of it is, i need to be kept,
there was never a sound beside the wood but one,
a young beech clinging to its last year's leaves,
that shouted in the mist a month ago,