Later Poems

Poems of renunciation, absence and love that was refused or arrived too late. The fullest collection of a poet who wrote about loss with unusual restraint.

Christina Rossetti

Songs of parting and love that did not last, written to be sung. Burns wrote the lines people still quote when they say goodbye.

Robert Burns

A long poem about desire that is refused and then punished by grief. Short enough to finish in an evening.

William Shakespeare