A short and sweet poem to end our first season of Pause For Poetry. Sara Teasdale was a leading female voice in American poetry at the beginning of the 20th Century, won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1917 and saw much critical and popular success.

https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30442

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A sort of elegy written for a flower, this poem uses the image of the dead rose as a reflection of the fragiliy of life. Barrett Browning was an incredibly successful and talented poet who, through her marriage to poet Robert Browning, became very well-known in her lifetime.

https://allpoetry.com/A-Dead-Rose

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Whitman discusses the inevitabilty of death and finds peace in those assurances of the title. A hugely influential figure in American poetry and American culture, Whitman wrote mostly in free verse and much of his work addresses the ideals of humanism. Leaves of Grass, the collection from which Assurances is taken, was revised multiple times by Whitman throughout his life.

https://www.bartleby.com/142/202.html

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