If I Should Die Poem by Thomas Gray

If I Should Die

Rating: 4.5


If I should die and leave you
Be not like the others, quick undone
Who keep long vigils by the silent
dust and weep.

For my sake turn to life and smile
Nerving thy heart and trembling
hand to comfort weaker souls than thee.
Complete these unfinished tasks of mine
And I perchance may therein comfort thee.

Friday, November 28, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: death
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
King Optims 29 April 2015

this poem is awesome and I like it very greatly

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Thabani Khumalo 16 June 2015

I have a vision to write like this, only if god would bless me enough to.12

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Suryendu Chaudhury 25 October 2020

There is a magical essence in this perceptive piece of poetry. The feelings surrounding the death and the continuation of life is dealt in the tenderest of manners.

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Dr Antony Theodore 24 May 2019

turn to life and smile Nerving thy heart and trembling hand to comfort weaker souls than thee. very great advice. thank u dear poet for your greatness to write this. tony

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Julia 16 May 2018

I found a slip of paper I had written part of this poem on a very long time ago. Some of the words were wrongI have only today after a long search fpund what I had been looking for, so now I can add it to a notebook in which I have written a number of my favourites..

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C W Briggs 13 May 2018

It appears this poem by Gray was loosely plagiarized by a version written by Mary Hall, an American jurist.

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Amar Agarwala 20 January 2016

Thomas Gray is incredible... his 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is the most incredible piece of work I have ever read.

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