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Loss of a Lover or Spouse Poems

Losing your life partner changes everything about your world. These poems understand that profound loneliness and the overwhelming challenge of rebuilding life after losing your other half.

“Mahmoud"

By Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

“You Can Be the Last Leaf” is a 2022 collection of poems by Palestinian novelist and poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Her poem “…

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"Your Death"

By Rita Dove

Upon reading the first line of this poem by Poet Laureate Rita Dove, the reader doesn’t exactly know why the day will al…

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“Two Planets”

By Allama Iqbal

Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal is considered one of the greatest Muslim poets of the 20th century. Born in the Punjab provinc…

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"Sonnet 71"

By William Shakespeare

“Sonnet 71” was part of a series of poems known as the “Fair Youth” sequence. This sequence takes the point of view, or …

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"At the Gate"

By Henrik Nordbrandt

Dying takes place in so many different ways. Some people, for instance, die slowly as the result of a terminal illness o…

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"Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae"

By Ernest Dowson

Ernest Dowson’s unusually titled poem, “Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae” (“I am not as I was in the reign of…

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“Sonnet 43”

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Though the obvious focus of the sonnet is on how much Browning cares for her husband (this is one of a series of sonnets…

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