This is how the poem begins: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

National flags across India will be flown at half-staff Friday to mourn the death of the chief minister of the key southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03