Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and powerful, thou art not so?

Question

I would love to hear some more poetry similar to "Death be not proud".

Has anyone got any suggestions?

Answer 1

I recommend Shakespeare's Sonnets. They were also written in iambic pentameter during the same period of time.

Answer 2

Now that you've read Donne's poem, read prose with similar spirit, tone and title. A change is as good as a rest. You'll enjoy this deeply moving book - a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. :

DEATH BE NOT PROUD
by John Gunther

Overview:
John Gunther wrote DEATH BE NOT PROUD as a moving record of the last months of the life of his son, Johnny, who had died, as the result of a brain tumor, at the age of seventeen. Throughout his long and painful fight for his life, Johnny had maintained a cheerful outlook, and continued to hope that, somehow, he would go on. His father, in writing this book, made sure that Johnny did go on.
I'm sad that some of the younger (I assume) reviewers of this book found it wanting in pathos, or whatever it was that they thought was missing. Perhaps, with the coming of maturity, they will realize what a remarkable book it is. The fact that John Gunther was able to write this book at all, probably with tears in his eyes, was an amazing feat.

The death of a child is probably the most heart-wrenching loss that anyone can experience. I know. I, too, lost a son aged seventeen. That was 21 years ago, just three months after my son's seventeenth birthday. The pain of that loss is still with me after all those years. Just writing a review of John Gunther's book is almost too much. How much more difficult must it have been for Gunther to write DEATH BE NOT PROUD within two years of Johnny's death.

In spite of his own pain, Gunther wrote this book in hopes that other children and their parents who might find themselves in a similar situation "may derive some modicum of succor from the unflinching fortitude . . . . with which he (Johnny) rode through his ordeal to the end."

Before Johnny died he wrote a poem of prayer that ended as follows:

"Accept my gratitude

for all thy gifts

and I shall try

to fight the good fight. Amen"

And this when he knew he hadn't long to live. What a remarkable young man!


Good luck

Answer 3

An entire army can be destroyed with one word...WAR!

GOOD GOD Y’ALL

Where are all of those we met,
And the horses we rode to war?
There were those we put away wet,
And the arms of every whore.
Hand grenades that never flew,
And those that took our friends.
All the soldiers by our sides,
And those who met their ends.

Not quite what you wanted I don't think. But thought provoking nonetheless. And yes, both are copyrighted.

Answer 4

Silvia Plath it's in American English but twice as depressing.

Answer 5

Thou art say love thy gays