Potential Titles: Dirge

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And hark, to the funeral dirge of the Bee - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

Wild birds chant their dirges - Benjamin West Ball "The Forgotten"

Into the shrill dirge of birds - Lou Barrett "Death of a Son Before His Time"

When Walt's celebratory song becomes a post-apocalyptic dirge - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Walt Whitman]

Dirges from some demon goddess - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"

The eagle screams his dirge - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

With dirges due in sad array - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

No dirge's plaintive moan - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

Lost in a dirge's harmony - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"

A dirge for empires gone - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"

A thin dirge for your nation - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

Dirge of the ruined years - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"

No more will mingle with the dirge - Fanny Kemble "Written on Cramond Beach]"

Speaking dirges into the phantom darkness - Youna Kwak "After"

Trembling lips pour the sad dirge of sighing - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

A dirge was on the waters - Herbert Randall "Cry of the Wounded Loon"

And night shall have her dirge - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

All its golden past a dirge - Clinton Scollard "Saint Sepulchre's Beside the Sea"

The death dirge of the melancholy wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Through their million-footed dirge of unconcern - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

And sings a dirge for dying souls - Thomas Vautor "Sweet Suffolk Owl"


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