First linesDavid Park Barnitz

  1. A dead corpse crowned with a crown of gold Corpse
  2. A dead corpse full of wormy questionings, Monotony
  3. Adorned daggers, ruby-hilted swords; Sonnet of the Instruments of Death
  4. All the authors that there are bore Me; Litany
  5. Although thy face be whiter than the dawn, Languor
  6. Among all sorrows that my heart hath known, Consolation
  7. And since I understood not what so strong Fragments
  8. Anguish and Mourning are as gold to her; Madonna
  9. As shadows pass, in the misty night, Rondeau
  10. Be not cast down my heart, and be not sad, Sonnet
  11. Because my hope is dead, my heart a stone, Hegel
  12. Cometh a day and a night, Song
  13. Dead am I, and ye triumph o’er me dead, Scorn
  14. Far in the melancholy hills it stands, The House of Youth
  15. Holy Pestilence, holy Pestilence, gird thee with might, Prayer
  16. I am a little tired of all things mortal; Prelude
  17. I leave the sound, the sorrow, and the strife; After-Life
  18. I love all sombre and autumnal things, Sombre Sonnet
  19. I sat in tall Gomorrah on a day, Ennui
  20. I saw a dead corpse lying in a tomb, The Grotesques
  21. In the last hopeless depth of hell’s dark tomb Miserrimus
  22. In thy blue pallid gown that shimmereth Ashtoreth
  23. It is not that I have not sought thy face Truth
  24. It is not that thy face is fair Parfait Amour
  25. Lo, all the passionate pale evening Evening Song
  26. Lo, all the world as some vast corpse long dead, Sepulchral Life
  27. Lo, how the moon, beloved, Nocturne
  28. Lo, in the night I cry out, in the night, Mad Sonnet
  29. My heart is but a tomb, where vain and cold Sepulture
  30. Naught is more sweet than gently to let dream Opium
  31. Now at the last, Zulaikha, all my sorrows olden Song of India
  32. Now I am come to the nadir at last, to the absolute sorrow, Envoi
  33. Now that the earth thy buried corpse doth hold, Sonnet of Burial
  34. O endless idiocy of humankind! The Defilers
  35. —O Muse of mine that sittest orientally Louanges d’Elle
  36. O poppy-buds, that in the golden air Poppy Song
  37. O starry light of the dim universe! Song of the Stars in Praise of Her
  38. Out of the grave, O God, I call to thee, De Profundis
  39. Quelle bêtise! O Muse, no longer lappt in sadness let us lie, Song of Golden Youth
  40. Remember, ye whom the skies delight, Remember
  41. She hath liv’d the life of a rose, Song
  42. Surely thy face, love, is a little pale, Constancy
  43. The lady awoke before the cold gray dawn, Aubade
  44. The lady rode ’neath the strange sky’s pall Ballad
  45. The loathed worms are crawling over me The Grave
  46. The moon shone full that night, Autumn Burial
  47. These paltry rhymes, which loftier shall pursue Dedication
  48. They come and go, they pass before my soul, Pride
  49. They do not know that they are wholly dead, Mankind
  50. Thou art at last made perfect; from the estate Mummy
  51. Thou shalt rejoice for woe: Sestettes
  52. Thy splendour-lighted face before mine eyes Liebes-Tod
  53. Tired Muse, put faded roses on thy brow, Harvard
  54. Weep, far autumnal skies, Autumn Song
  55. When Death shall touch thy body beautiful, Changelessness
  56. When I contemplate how my state is low, Sonnet
  57. White-rose perfume Requiem
  58. —Why sittest thou, O Muse, in grief enfolden? Hélas
  59. Your soul is like a purple flower, Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie en Rouge

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