Poems of mourning
By: selected and edited by Peter Washington.
Contributors: Washington, Peter.
Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Death -- Poetry.; Grief -- Poetry.; Bereavement -- Poetry.
Other titles: Mourning
Description: Poems over the ages lamenting the dead. In Elegy for Himself, written in the London Tower before his execution, Chidiock Tichborne wrote: "My tale was heard, and yet it was not told; / My fruit is fall'n, and yet my leaves are green; / My youth is spent, and yet I am not old; / I saw the world and yet I was not seen."
Notes: Includes index.