Death Poems

  poems about death

1. Aedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead, by W. B. Yeats

2. Against the Fear of Death, by Lucretius

3. Along the Field as We Came By, by A. E. Housman

4. As at Thy Portals Also Death, by Walt Whitman

5. At the Grave of Margaret, by Robert Leighton

6. Beauty in the Grave, by William B. Tappan

7. Belovëd, My Belovëd, When I Think, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

8. Beyond, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

9. Bones in the Tiles, by Lee Eric

10. The Burial of Carol Joy Beglau, by Walter Wykes

11. Burial of the Minnisink, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

12. The Bustle In a House, by Emily Dickinson

13. Camille in Death, by Thomasena Martin-Johnson

14. The Chariot, by Emily Dickinson

15. The City in the Sea, by Edgar Allan Poe

16. Cloud-Eye, by Katherine Gallagher

17. Come Not, When I am Dead, by Alfred Tennyson

18. Daisy, by George Houghton

19. The Day of Death, by Richard Chenevix Trench

20. The Dead, by Albert Laighton

21. The Dead Child, by Francis Jammes

22. Death, by Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad

23. Death, by C. B. Langston

24. Death, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

25. Death, by Edwin Leibfreed

26. Death, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

27. Death, by Maxwell Bodenheim

28. Death, by S. Moore

29. Death (II), by Maxwell Bodenheim

30. Death God, by Aeschylus

31. Death Is a Dialogue, by Emily Dickinson

32. The Death of the Hired Man, by Robert Frost

33. The Death of the King, by Florence Peacock

34. Death Snips Proud Men, by Carl Sandburg

35. Death's Revelation, by Rossiter Worthington Raymond

36. Death Stands above Me, Whispering Low, by Walter Savage Landor

37. Death the Consecrator, by Caroline Spencer

38. Death the Healer, by Aeschylus

39. Departed, by Harvey Rice

40. The Departed, by Isaac McLellan

41. Discordants: II, by Conrad Aiken

42. Early Called, by Eliza Allen Starr

43. Elegy Before Death, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

44. Epitaph, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

45. Exequy on his Wife, by Henry King

46. Farewell, by Emily Dickinson

47. Forever Dead, by Sappho

48. The Forgotten Grave, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

49. Found Dead, by Albert Laighton

50. From the City of the Living to the City of the Dead, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

51. The Funeral, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

52. The Funeral, by Emily Dickinson

53. The Funeral, by John Donne

54. A Funeral in the Village, by Isaac McLellan

55. God's Acre, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

56. gone, by Ray Heinrich

57. Gramma's Apron, by C. J. Heck

58. The Great Secret, by Caroline Spencer

59. The Haven of Rest, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

60. Her Resting Place, by Edward Robeson Taylor

61. Hymn to the Dead, by William B. Tappan

62. If I Should Die, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

63. If I Shouldn't Be Alive, by Emily Dickinson

64. If Man Die Shall He Live Again?, by S. Moore

65. If We Must Die, by Claude McKay

66. I Have a Rendezvous with Death, by Alan Seeger

67. In a Disused Graveyard, by Robert Frost

68. I've Seen a Dying Eye, by Emily Dickinson

69. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!, by Walt Whitman

70. The Junk Man, by Carl Sandburg

71. Lament, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

72. The Last Night That She Lived, by Emily Dickinson

73. Life after Death, by Callimachus

74. Life and Death, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

75. Light of Love, by Elizabeth Coatsworth

76. Lines Written in Restalrig Church Yard, by Robert Gilfillan

77. Living: After a Death, by Dinah Craik

78. The Lonely Window, by Eliza Allen Starr

79. Looking Death in the Face, by Dinah Craik

80. Meditations in a Cemetery, by Maxwell Bodenheim

81. Memory and Hope, by Alphonse de Lamartine

82. Morticia: Rondel in a Ruined Churchyard, by Anne Rees

83. Mourn Not, by Edward Robeson Taylor

84. My Grave, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

85. Obits, by Mary L. Slocum

86. The Ocean Burial, by Benjamin Franklin Field

87. The Old Dust, by Li Bai

88. On an Early Death, by Richard Chenevix Trench

89. One Dignity Delays for All, by Emily Dickinson

90. One Hour After Death, by Eliza Allen Starr

91. On the Death of a First Love, by C. B. Langston

92. On the Sudden and Violent Death of a Schoolmate, by Isaac McLellan

93. Over the Graves, by Eliza O. Peirson

94. Pals, by Carl Sandburg

95. Presentiment, by Ambrose Bierce

96. Reading the Obituaries, by Marilyn L. Taylor

97. The Reaper and the Flowers, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

98. Red Geranium on an Isolation Ward, by Maggie Sawkins

99. A Reflection, by S. Moore

100. Rosa, Dying, by Anna Katherine Green

101. The Shroud, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

102. Sleep and Death, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

103. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, by William Wordsworth

104. Song of the Dead, by Arthur Guiterman

105. Song of the Earth-Weary, by Mary T. Lathrap

106. The Soul's Farewell to the Body, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

107. Spirits of the Dead, by Edgar Allan Poe

108. Spoils of the Dead, by Robert Frost

109. Straw-Death, by Kenneth Rand

110. Sumptuous Obsequies, by Theognis of Megara

111. Suspiria, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

112. Tallulah Bankhead to Death, by Dan Schneider

113. Ternissa! You are Fled!, by Walter Savage Landor

114. A Thought, by Julia Gibson

115. To ----, by Watie W. Swanzy

116. To a Dead Man, by Carl Sandburg

117. To Certain Journeymen, by Carl Sandburg

118. To Death, by Edward Robeson Taylor

119. To J. S., by Alfred Tennyson

120. The Tomb, by William B. Tappan

121. To One Shortly to Die, by Walt Whitman

122. A Transplanted Bloom, by Henry O'Meara

123. Tsunami, by Kristen Spexarth

124. Two Deaths in the Bronx, by Donald Evans

125. Void, by Kristen Spexarth

126. We Shall Sleep But We Shall Waken, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

127. What is Death?, by William B. Tappan

128. When Death Shall Lay, by William B. Tappan

129. When I am Dead, by Edna Dean Proctor

130. When the Grass Shall Cover Me, by Ina Coolbrith

131. Whispers of Heavenly Death, by Walt Whitman

132. Why Shrink from Death, by Agathias

133. The Woodland Grave, by Eliza Allen Starr

134. Yea, Thou Shalt Die, by Sappho

135. You Will Die, by Herbert Giles

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