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{{#switch:October |December = Come not, when I am dead is a philosophical poem by Alfred Tennyson first published in The Keepsake in 1842.
Come not, when I am dead,
To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave,
To trample round my fallen head,
And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save.
There let the wind sweep and the plover cry;
But thou, go by. (Read on or see all featured texts.)</poem>
| January = After Death is a philosophical poem by Christina Rossetti about tragic death with a twist, first published in Goblin Market and Other Poems in 1862.
The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept
And strewn with rushes, rosemary and may Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay,
Where through the lattice ivy-shadows crept. He leaned above me, thinking that I slept...(Read on or see all featured texts.)
</poem>|February = Anthem for Doomed Youth is one of the best-known and most popular of Wilfred Owen's poems. It employs the traditional form of a sonnet. Much of the imagery suggests Christian funeral rituals and the poem moves from infernal noise to mournful silence.
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
—Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,... (Read on, listen, or see all featured texts.)
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