Death Poems

  poems about death

1. Against the Fear of Death, by Lucretius

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

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

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

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

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

7. The Bustle In a House, by Emily Dickinson

8. The Chariot, by Emily Dickinson

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

10. Cloud-Eye, by Katherine Gallagher

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

12. Daisy, by George Houghton

13. The Dead, by Albert Laighton

14. The Dead Child, by Francis Jammes

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

16. Death, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

17. Death, by Edwin Leibfreed

18. Death, by Maxwell Bodenheim

19. Death, by S. Moore

20. Death (II), by Maxwell Bodenheim

21. Death God, by Aeschylus

22. Death Is a Dialogue, by Emily Dickinson

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

24. The Death of the King, by Florence Peacock

25. Death Snips Proud Men, by Carl Sandburg

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

27. Death the Healer, by Aeschylus

28. The Departed, by Isaac McLellan

29. Discordants: II, by Conrad Aiken

30. Early Called, by Eliza Allen Starr

31. Exequy on his Wife, by Henry King

32. Farewell, by Emily Dickinson

33. Forever Dead, by Sappho

34. Found Dead, by Albert Laighton

35. The Funeral, by Emily Dickinson

36. The Funeral, by John Donne

37. A Funeral in the Village, by Isaac McLellan

38. gone, by Ray Heinrich

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

40. Her Resting Place, by Edward Robeson Taylor

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

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

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

44. In a Disused Graveyard, by Robert Frost

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

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

47. The Junk Man, by Carl Sandburg

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

49. Life after Death, by Callimachus

50. Life and Death, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

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

52. The Lonely Window, by Eliza Allen Starr

53. Meditations in a Cemetery, by Maxwell Bodenheim

54. Memory and Hope, by Alphonse de Lamartine

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

56. Mourn Not, by Edward Robeson Taylor

57. The Ocean Burial, by Benjamin Franklin Field

58. The Old Dust, by Li Bai

59. One Dignity Delays for All, by Emily Dickinson

60. One Hour After Death, by Eliza Allen Starr

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

62. Over the Graves, by Eliza O. Peirson

63. Pals, by Carl Sandburg

64. Presentiment, by Ambrose Bierce

65. Reading the Obituaries, by Marilyn L. Taylor

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

67. A Reflection, by S. Moore

68. Rosa, Dying, by Anna Katherine Green

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

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

71. Spirits of the Dead, by Edgar Allan Poe

72. Spoils of the Dead, by Robert Frost

73. Sumptuous Obsequies, by Theognis of Megara

74. Tallulah Bankhead to Death, by Dan Schneider

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

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

77. To a Dead Man, by Carl Sandburg

78. To Certain Journeymen, by Carl Sandburg

79. To Death, by Edward Robeson Taylor

80. To J. S., by Alfred Tennyson

81. The Tomb, by William B. Tappan

82. To One Shortly to Die, by Walt Whitman

83. A Transplanted Bloom, by Henry O'Meara

84. Tsunami, by Kristen Spexarth

85. Void, by Kristen Spexarth

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

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

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

89. Whispers of Heavenly Death, by Walt Whitman

90. Why Shrink from Death, by Agathias

91. The Woodland Grave, by Eliza Allen Starr

92. Yea, Thou Shalt Die, by Sappho

93. You Will Die, by Herbert Giles

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