Famous Short Memorial Poems

Famous Short Memorial Poems. Short Memorial Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Memorial short poems

If I shouldnt be alive  

 If I shouldn't be alive
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.


If I couldn't thank you,
Being fast asleep,
You will know I'm trying
Why my Granite lip!

Water is taught by thirst  

 Water, is taught by thirst.

Land -- by the Oceans passed.

Transport -- by throe --
Peace -- by its battles told --
Love, by Memorial Mold --
Birds, by the Snow.

Rev. Abner Peet  

 I had no objection at all
To selling my household effects at auction
On the village square.

It gave my beloved flock the chance
To get something which had belonged to me
For a memorial.

But that trunk which was struck off
To Burchard, the grog-keeper!
Did you know it contained the manuscripts
Of a lifetime of sermons?
And he burned them as waste paper.

Perry Zoll  

 My thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association,
For this modest boulder,
And its little tablet of bronze.

Twice I tried to join your honored body,
And was rejected,
And when my little brochure
On the intelligence of plants
Began to attract attention
You almost voted me in.

After that I grew beyond the need of you
And your recognition.

Yet I do not reject your memorial stone,
Seeing that I should, in so doing,
Deprive you of honor to yourselves.

Memorial To D.C  

 (Vassar College, 1918)

O, loveliest throat of all sweet throats,
Where now no more the music is,
With hands that wrote you little notes
I write you little elegies!