Anniversary poems

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crematorium-return

© Rg Gregory

i)
ok the pair of you lie still
what's disturbing me need pass
no fretful hand over your peace
this world's vicissitudes are stale
fodder for you who feed the grass

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Celebrate

© Anna Akhmatova

Celebrate our anniversary – can’t you see
tonight the snowy night of our first winter
comes back again in every road and tree -
that winter night of diamantine splendour.

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Jimmy

© Bhaskar Roy Barman

( A Poem in Remembrance)

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An Anatomy of the World

© John Donne

(excerpt)
AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD
Wherein,
by occasion of the untimely death of Mistress

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Anniversary

© Cecilia Woloch

Didn’t I stand there once, 

white-knuckled, gripping the just-lit taper, 

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Pedestrian

© Thomas Lux

Tottering and elastic, middle name of Groan, 

ramfeezled after a hard night

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Anniversary

© Louise Gluck

Someone should teach you how to act in bed.
What I think is you should
keep your extremities to yourself.

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The Anniversary

© John Donne

All Kings, and all their favourites,

 All glory of honours, beauties, wits,

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Never to Dream of Spiders

© Elizabeth Daryush

Once the renegade flesh was gone 
fall air lay against my face
sharp and blue as a needle
but the rain fell through October 
and death lay  a condemnation 
within my blood.

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Anniversary Hymn

© Katharine Lee Bates

Our fathers, in the years grown dim, reared slowly, wall by wall
A holy dwelling-place for Him, that filleth all in all.
They wrought His house of faith and prayer, the rainbow round the Throne,
A precious temple builded fair on Christ the Cornerstone.

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The Diplomatic Platypus

© Patrick Barrington

I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,


With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.

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Swiss Song, On The Anniversary Of An Ancient Battle

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Look on the white Alps round!
  If yet they gird a land
  Where freedom's voice and step are found,
  Forget ye not the band,
The faithful band, our sires, who fell
Here, in the narrow battle-dell!

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Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary

© John Donne

(excerpt)
OF THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL
Wherein,
by occasion of the religious death of Mistress

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Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis,
Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies.
Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi.
"O Cæsar, we who are about to die
Salute you!" was the gladiators' cry
In the arena, standing face to face
With death and with the Roman populace.

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Tomb (Of Verlaine)

© Stéphane Mallarme


The black rock enraged that the north wind rolls it on
Will not stop itself, nor, under pious hands, still
Cease testing its resemblance to human ill
As if to bless some fatal cast of bronze.

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Supernatural Songs

© William Butler Yeats

Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn

Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night

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Anniversary Poem

© John Greenleaf Whittier

ONCE, more, dear friends, you meet beneath

A clouded sky:

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Anniversary

© Gabriela Mistral

And we go on and on,
Neither sleeping nor awake,
Towards the meeting, unaware
That we are already there.

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Hymn Sung At An Anniversary Of The Asylum Of Orphans At Charleston

© Henry Timrod

We scarce, O God! could lisp thy name,
When those who loved us passed away,
And left us but thy love to claim,
With but an infant's strength to pray.