” I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay up thy lips”
– Shakespeare
From: Anthony and Cleopatra
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Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Other Poems on Dying
- Dying is fine but Death – e.e.cummings
- O Living Always, Always Dying – Walt Whitman
- The Lesson – Maya Angelou
- Exposure – Wilfred Owen
- I Live Yet do not live in me – St John of the Cross
- It Was Not Death – Emily Dickinson
- The Chariot (Because I could not stop for death)
Short poems on death at Short Poems.org
Photo by: Richard (Oxford Botanical Gardens Jan)