There are 933 Poems about Death

"It is the living who cannot"
By Hilda Morley

"Rise up, rise up"
By Hilda Morley

‘One morn I left him in his bed’
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

‘Out, Out—’
By Robert Frost

 Take Me Out to the Go-Go
By Thomas Sayers Ellis

1914 II. Safety
By Rupert Brooke

1914 IV. The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

1926
By Weldon Kees

Song of Myself: 36
By Walt Whitman

V Mon. July [1747] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster

A Ballad of Death
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Burnt Ship
By John Donne

A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
By Andrew Marvell

A Dirge
By Felicia Dorothea Hemans

A Dog's Life
By Daniel Groves

A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne

A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai

A Name for All
By Hart Crane

A Newly Discovered ‘Homeric’ Hymn
By Charles Olson

A Night-Piece on Death
By Thomas Parnell

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne

A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
By James Wright

A Phonecall from Frank O’Hara
By Anne Waldman

A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
By Jupiter Hammon

A Poem for the Cruel Majority
By Jerome Rothenberg

A Poem Without a Single Bird in It
By Jack Spicer

A Poet’s Death
By David Trinidad

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys
By Francis Jammes

A Private Matter
By Carol Muske-Dukes

A Real-Life Drama
By Michael Collier

A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë

A Request
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift

A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright

A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning

A Short History of the Shadow
By Charles Wright

A Shropshire Lad XII: When I watch the living meet
By A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad XXVI: Along the field as we came by
By A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad XXXV: On the idle hill of summer
By A. E. Housman

A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
By William Wordsworth

A Song from the Italian from Limberham: or, the Kind Keeper
By John Dryden

A Thousand Birds
By Hilda Morley

A toad can die of light!
By Emily Dickinson

A Tree Planted
By Hilda Morley

A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats
By John Ciardi

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne

A Week Before Christmas
By Ioanna Carlsen

Aaron
By George Herbert

Accidents of Birth
By William Meredith

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur

Affirmation
By Donald Hall

After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins

Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic

Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
By Martín Espada

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

All My Pretty Ones
By Anne Sexton

All the Dead Soldiers
By Thomas McGrath

American History
By Michael S. Harper

Amor Mundi
By Christina Rossetti

An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan

An Afternoon at the Beach
By Edgar Bowers

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi

An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin

An Autograph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

An Elegy for Five Old Ladies
By Thomas James Merton

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne
By Thomas Carew

An Epitaph on S.P.
By Ben Jonson

from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky

An Instrument Also
By Donald Revell

An Offering
By John Reibetanz

And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas

And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

And Still It Comes
By Thomas Lux

And Then I Saw
By Alfred Corn

And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Animal Graves
By Chase Twichell

Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe

Anne Rutledge
By Edgar Lee Masters

Anthem for Doomed Youth
By Wilfred Owen

Anthology of Rapture
By James Scully

Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Aside
By Karl Shapiro

At a Country Funeral
By Wendell Berry

At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy

At Melville’s Tomb
By Hart Crane

At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
By James Wright

At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
By Larry Levis

At the Grave of the Fourth Man
By Henri Coulette

At the Moment
By Joyce Sutphen

At the Vietnam Memorial
By George Bilgere

Atlantis
By Mark Doty

Aubade
By Philip Larkin

Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot

Aunt Madelyn At The White Sale
By Alice Fulton

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autumn Song
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Ave Atque Vale
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

“A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about...”
By Claudia Rankine

“Himself let him unknown contain”
By Tom Clark

“There is a button on the remote control called FAV...”
By Claudia Rankine

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Bavarian Gentians
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Because I could not stop for Death – (479)
By Emily Dickinson

Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle

Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Bereavement
By William Lisle Bowles

Berkeley in Time of Plague
By Jack Spicer

Bess
By William E. Stafford

Beyond Harm
By Sharon Olds

Beyond the Stars
By Charles Hanson Towne

Big City
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Black Soap
By Sandra McPherson

Bloody Fate
By Miguel Hernández

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Buffalo Bill 's
By E. E. Cummings

Burial Rites
By Philip Levine

Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler

Burning
By Galway Kinnell

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Burning Trash
By John Updike

Calm Down
By Gregory Orr

Cancer and Complaint at Midsummer
By C. Dale Young

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson

Champs d’Honneur
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Chaplinesque
By Hart Crane

Charon’s Cosmology
By Charles Simic

Child of a Day
By Walter Savage Landor

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Claribel
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Cold Calls: War Music, Continued
By Christopher Logue

Come Up from the Fields Father
By Walt Whitman

Commemoration
By Samuel Menashe

Comment in Passing
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Complete Destruction
By William Carlos Williams

Confessions
By Robert Browning

Consolation
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Conversation
By Ai

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

Cool Tombs
By Carl Sandburg

Cor Cordium
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

CORIKOS
By Richard Aldington

Country Burial
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Covenant
By Alan Shapiro

Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell

Damselfly, Trout, Heron
By John Engels

Danny Deever
By Rudyard Kipling

Danse Macabre
By Norman Dubie

Darkness
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Dead Boy
By John Crowe Ransom

Dead Man’s Dump
By Isaac Rosenberg

Death
By Bill Knott

Death Is Not As Natural As You Fags Seem to Think
By Amiri Baraka

Death of an Infant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Death Snips Proud Men
By Carl Sandburg

Death the Mexican Revolutionary
By Anthony Hecht

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

Debridement
By Michael S. Harper

December, 1919
By Claude McKay

Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams

Dejection
By David Baker

Detroit, Tomorrow
By Philip Levine

Dirge in Woods
By George Meredith

Dirge Without Music
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas

Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin

from Doctor Drink, #1
By J. V. Cunningham

Dog Biscuits
By Chase Twichell

Done
By Michelle Boisseau

Doot Dah Do
By Diane Glancy

Dora Williams
By Edgar Lee Masters

Double Elegy
By Michael S. Harper

Double Rainbow
By James Galvin

Dragging the Lake
By Thomas James

Dreams, April 1981
By Robin Blaser

Drifting at Midday
By Malachi Black

Drizzle
By William Matthews

Drowning in Wheat
By John Kinsella

Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
By Walter Savage Landor

Early June Meditation at Lakeside
By Colette Inez

Eating the Pig
By Donald Hall

Eating Together
By Li-Young Lee

Edge
By Sylvia Plath

Electrocuting an Elephant
By George Bradley

Elegy
By Miguel Hernández

Elegy
By Pierre Martory

from Elegy for My Sister
By Sherod Santos

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert

Elegy on Toy Piano
By Dean Young

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
By Alexander Pope

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
By Thomas Gray

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman

Embalming
By Scott Cairns

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
By John Crowe Ransom

Encounter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Ephemeroptera
By Miriam Vermilya

Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson

Epilogue
By Robert Browning

Episode in a Library
By Zbigniew Herbert

Epitaph
By Katherine Philips

Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie

Epitaph
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Epitaph for a Romantic Woman
By Louise Bogan

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
By Ben Jonson

Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers
By Thomas Carew

Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before
By Aphra Behn

Eugenia Todd
By Edgar Lee Masters

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Evans
By R. S. Thomas

Excelsior
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Exile
By Marjorie Pickthall

Experience
By Edith Wharton

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
By William Wordsworth

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Falling
By James L. Dickey

Fate
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Father and Son
By Delmore Schwartz

Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
By William Shakespeare

Feeding Our Ancient Ancestors
By Pattiann Rogers

Feel Me
By May Swenson

Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fifteen Epitaphs I
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Finis
By Marjorie Pickthall

Firstborn
By Kurt S. Olsson

Fleshly Answers
By Rachel Hadas

Follow Thy Fair Sun
By Thomas Campion

For a Girl Killed at Sea
By Calvin Thomas

For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton

For Annie
By Edgar Allan Poe

For Billy
By Jack Spicer

For H., Dead in a Car at Thirty-eight
By Michael C. Blumenthal

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker

For the Anniversary of My Death
By W. S. Merwin

For the Last Wolverine
By James L. Dickey

For Weeks After the Funeral
By Andrea Hollander Budy

Forever and a Day
By Samuel Menashe

Four Portraits of Fire
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Fox Sleep
By W. S. Merwin

Fragment
By Thomas Hardy

Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From a Daybook
By David St. John

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore

Full Fadom Fiue Thy Father Lies
By William Shakespeare

Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill

Funerals
By James Laughlin

Funny Strange
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Gathering the Bones Together
By Gregory Orr

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
By Vachel Lindsay

Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling

Getting Used to Your Name
By Marin Sorescu

Ghazal
By Agha Shahid Ali

Ghetto Funeral
By Charles Reznikoff

Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn

Gnostic
By Honor Moore

God’s Acre
By Conrad Aiken

Golden State
By Frank Bidart

Goofer-Dust
By Thomas Lux

Goose
By Richard Emil Braun

Graceland
By Carl Sandburg

Grandfather
By Andrei Guruianu

Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
By Lola Haskins

Granny Scarecrow
By Anne Stevenson

Gravepiece
By Jean Garrigue

Graves
By Hayden Carruth

Greek
By T.R. Hummer

Gretel in Darkness
By Louise Glück

Grief
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World
By Sherman Alexie

Half a hedgehog
By Miroslav Holub

Handsel
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Harriet Street
By Carol Frost

Have You Prayed
By Li-Young Lee

Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Heaven to Be
By Sharon Olds

Hell
By Donald Justice

Her Garden
By Donald Hall

here is little Effie’s head
By E. E. Cummings

Highland Mary
By Robert Burns

His Stillness
By Sharon Olds

Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne

Home Burial
By Robert Frost

Honey Dripper
By Clarence Major

Horse
By Louise Glück

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Hospital parking lot, April
By Laura Kasischke

How It Is
By Maxine W. Kumin

How many times these low feet staggered
By Emily Dickinson

Hurt Hawks
By Robinson Jeffers

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück

Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne

Hypocrite Auteur
By Archibald MacLeish

I Dreamed That I Was Old
By Stanley Kunitz

I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris
By Louis Simpson

I Genitori Perduti
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
By Emily Dickinson

I Killed a Fly
By David Ignatow

I know that He exists. (365)
By Emily Dickinson

I Shall not Care
By Sara Teasdale

I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves
By Colleen J. McElroy

I Will Not Save the World
By Jerome Rothenberg

Ice Child
By John Haines

Ichabod
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

II-The Person That You Were Will Be Replaced
By Alice Notley

Immortality
By Matthew Arnold

Immortality Ode
By Bruce Smith

Impossible to Tell
By Robert Pinsky

In Black
By Joyce Sutphen

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII [all 133 poems]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 105
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 131
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 22
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 39
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 44
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 45
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 55
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 82
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 95
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 99
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: [Prelude]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memorium: Alphonse Campbell Fordham
By Mary Weston Fordham

In Memory of a Child
By Vachel Lindsay

In Memory of Jane Fraser
By Geoffrey Hill

In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn
By Donald Justice

In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
By James Wright

In Tenebris
By Thomas Hardy

In the Marble Quarry
By James L. Dickey

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey

Incident
By Eamon Grennan

Insect
By Annie Finch

Inside My Head
By Robert Creeley

Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

Into Death Bravely
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Introit & Fugue
By D. Nurkse

Irony
By Louis Untermeyer

Jack
By Carl Sandburg

Janet Waking
By John Crowe Ransom

January 22nd, Missolonghi
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

jesus knew
By Nick Flynn

John Lennon
By Mary Jo Salter

Journey to the Place of Ghosts
By Jay Wright

June Twenty, Three Days After
By Miller Williams

Just Think!
By Robert W. Service

Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg

Keats
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lady Lazarus
By Sylvia Plath

from Lalla Rookh
By Thomas Moore

Lament
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lament
By Thom Gunn

Laodamia
By William Wordsworth

Late February
By Ted Kooser

Lenox Hill
By Agha Shahid Ali

Let Me Die on the Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson

Lines: The cold earth slept below
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Little Elegy
By Elinor Wylie

Little Father
By Li-Young Lee

Little God Origami
By Stefi Weisburd

Living Here Now
By Eloise Klein Healy

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

Louse Hunting
By Isaac Rosenberg

Love and Death
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Luke Havergal
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Lullaby
By Amanda Jernigan

Lycidas
By John Milton

Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Malcolm X, February 1965
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Manfred: Incantation
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Maple Syrup
By Donald Hall

Marching
By Jim Harrison

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Meditation at Sundown
By Frederick Morgan

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memorial Service
By George Garrett

Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold

Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Men at My Father’s Funeral
By William Matthews

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Messenger
By Dave Smith

Michiko Dead
By Jack Gilbert

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Midwinter
By Sophie Jewett

Mississippi
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney

Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass

Monody
By Herman Melville

from Monologues of the Son of Saul
By John Logan

Montparnasse
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
By William E. Stafford

Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen

Morte d'Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Moss
By Bruce Guernsey

Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mountain Dulcimer
By Robert Morgan

Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
By Robert E. Hayden

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

Mrs. Kessler
By Edgar Lee Masters

Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James

My Grave
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
By Robert Lowell

My Last Dance
By Julia Ward Howe

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764)
By Emily Dickinson

My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn

My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My skeleton, my rival
By David Ignatow

My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

Nature
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Necropolitan
By Scott Cairns

New York American Spell, 2001
By Tom Sleigh

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen
By Charles Wright

Nineteen-Fourteen: Peace
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier
By Rupert Brooke

No Children, No Pets
By Sue Ellen Thompson

No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë

No One Goes to Paris in August
By Clarence Major

No Postmortems
By Gregory Orr

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

No Time
By Billy Collins

Nogi
By Harriet Monroe

None
By Hayden Carruth

Not Forgotten
By Toi Derricotte

Not to Be Dwelled On
By Heather McHugh

Not Waving but Drowning
By Stevie Smith

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

Nothing But Color
By Ai

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode
By Henry Timrod

Ode for the American Dead in Asia
By Thomas McGrath

Ode I. 11
By Horace

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
By Thomas Gray

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
By Pablo Neruda

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd.
By Mark Twain

Odes
By Fernando Pessoa

from Odes: 10. Chorus of Furies
By Basil Bunting

Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso
By Donald Revell

of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

On a Dead Child
By Robert Bridges

On an Anniversary
By J. M. Synge

On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
By Charles Lamb

On an Old Woman Dying
By Janet Loxley Lewis

On Distinction
By A. F. Moritz

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton

On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë

On the Death of Richard West
By Thomas Gray

On the Eve of a Birthday
By Timothy Steele

On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
By William Lisle Bowles

On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper

On the Preserved Body of an Inca Child Frozen to Death as a Sacrifice to the Sun
By A. F. Moritz

On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes

Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Osage County Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
By Diane Glancy

Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly

Our Sun
By George Seferis

Our Willie
By Henry Timrod

Out
By Andrew Hudgins

Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
By Colleen J. McElroy

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By Walt Whitman

Ovation
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Pacific Epitaphs
By Dudley Randall

Palladium
By Matthew Arnold

Parable of the Desultory Slut
By Tony Barnstone

Part Elegy
By Robert Wrigley

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Pauline Is Falling
By Jean Nordhaus

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Penumbra
By Amy Lowell

Phases
By Wallace Stevens

Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968
By Cornelius Eady

Photograph from September 11
By Wisława Szymborska

Poem by the Charles River
By Robin Blaser

Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton

Pomegranates
By Hilda Morley

Poor Old Lady
By Anonymous

Poppies in July
By Sylvia Plath

Porphyria's Lover
By Robert Browning

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Posthumous
By Jean Nordhaus

Postpartum Blues
By Elton Glaser

Praise
By Hilda Morley

Prayer for My Father
By Robert Bly

Pre-Dialogue, II
By Edmond Jabès

Preparation
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Prisoners
By Denise Levertov

Progressive Health
By Carl Dennis

Promises Are for Liars
By James Galvin

Prospice
By Robert Browning

Proud Maisie
By Sir Walter Scott

Proust’s Madeleine
By Kenneth Rexroth

Question
By May Swenson

Question [1]
By Langston Hughes

Rain
By Edward Thomas

Randall Jarrell
By Robert Lowell

Range-finding
By Robert Frost

Reasons
By Thomas James

Remembrance
By Emily Jane Brontë

Requiem
By Camille T. Dungy

Requiem for a Nest
By Wanda Coleman

Requiem for the New Year
By Mary Karr

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill

Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold

Resum�
By Dorothy Parker

Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson

Reuben Bright
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Robin Redbreast
By Stanley Kunitz

Romanticism
By David Baker

Rose Aylmer
By Walter Savage Landor

Rue
By Samuel Menashe

Sabbath lie
By Yehuda Amichai

Safe in their alabaster chambers
By Emily Dickinson

Sailing Home from Rapallo
By Robert Lowell

Sarah Brown
By Edgar Lee Masters

Scary Movies
By Kim Addonizio

School of Flesh
By Dana Levin

Scree
By Alan Shapiro

September Song
By Geoffrey Hill

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth

Shell
By Harriet Brown

Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale

Sire
By W. S. Merwin

Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Sixty-One
By Doug Anderson

Skirts and Slacks
By W. S. Di Piero

Small Woman on Swallow Street
By W. S. Merwin

Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
By Colleen J. McElroy

Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Song
By Sophie Jewett

Song of Social Despair
By Marvin Bell

Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring
By John Dryden

Song: I once rejoiced, sweet evening gale...
By Amelia Opie

Song: My silks and fine array
By William Blake

Song: Sweetest love, I do not go
By John Donne

Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXVI: Tir'd with all these, for Restful Death
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXI: No Longer Mourn for me when I am Dead
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
By Charlotte Smith

Sonnet XXI: In that time when it seemed the simple weight
By Paul Engle

Sonnet XXX: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXXII: If thou Survive my Well-contented Day
By William Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: I Thought how Theocritus
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate

Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
By Walter Savage Landor

sorrow song
By Lucille Clifton

Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #17
By Marvin Bell

Spaces We Leave Empty
By Cathy Song

Speculation
By Ruth Stone

Speed the Parting-
By Elinor Wylie

Spider Tumor
By Michael Collier

Spirits of the Dead
By Edgar Allan Poe

Spring
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Spring A. D.
By George Seferis

Spring Music
By Frederick Feirstein

Stanzas
By Emily Jane Brontë

State's Attorney Fallas
By Edgar Lee Masters

Stationed
By Albert Goldbarth

Statue
By Tom Clark

Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Strange Meeting
By Wilfred Owen

Strays
By Stanley Plumly

Stump
By Donald Hall

Styx
By Robert Duncan

Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson

Suicide's Note
By Langston Hughes

Suitcase Song
By Albert Goldbarth

Sunday Morning
By Wallace Stevens

Supremacy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love
By George Eliot

Sweetness
By Stephen Dunn

Swifts
By Gerald Stern

Sylvester’s Dying Bed
By Langston Hughes

Tarantula, or The Dance of Death
By Anthony Hecht

Tell the Bees
By Sarah Lindsay

Telling the Bees
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Telling the Bees
By Lizette Woodworth Reese

Temporarily in Oxford
By Anne Stevenson

Tender Only to One
By Stevie Smith

Terminus
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

That Pull from the Left
By Louise Erdrich

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
By Hayden Carruth

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Answering Machine
By Linda Pastan

The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Apparition
By John Donne

The Argument
By Jane Kenyon

The Ashes
By Karin Gottshall

The Asians Dying
By W. S. Merwin

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
By Robert W. Service

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Batture
By Dara Wier

The Bear
By Galway Kinnell

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Body
By Frederick Morgan

The Bones of My Father
By Etheridge Knight

The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton

The Book of the Dead Man (#15)
By Marvin Bell

The Book of the Dead Man (#3)
By Marvin Bell

The Book of the Deer, the Bear and the Elk
By Henry Carlile

The Bounty
By Derek Walcott

The Breathing Space
By Frederick Morgan

from The Bridge: Quaker Hill
By Hart Crane

The Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall

The Bustle in a House (1108)
By Emily Dickinson

The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández

The Chant of the Vultures
By Edwin Markham

The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson

The Circuit Judge
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Closet
By Bill Knott

The Cold Heaven
By William Butler Yeats

The Complaint: or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
By Edward Young

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

The Courtesy
By Alan Shapiro

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The Cross of Snow
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara

The Dead
By Don Paterson

The Dead Man Walking
By Thomas Hardy

The Dead Never Fight Against Anything
By Pattiann Rogers

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Deathwatch Beetle
By Linda Pastan

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
By Robinson Jeffers

The Dowser’s Ear
By Wilmer Mills

The Dream
By Irving Feldman

The Drowned Children
By Louise Glück

The Dust Covers My Shoes
By Hilda Morley

The Dying Child
By John Clare

The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie

The Eagle That Is Forgotten
By Vachel Lindsay

The Elephant
By Dan Chiasson

The End
By Mark Strand

The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to be Hanged along with Them
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Executive’s Death
By Robert Bly

The Extension of the Dead
By Gary Fincke

The Faithful
By Jane Cooper

The Fatal Sisters: An Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Fight in the Meadow
By Russell Edson

The Fire
By Deborah Parédez

The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
By Dylan Thomas

The Funeral
By John Donne

The Gaffe
By C. K. Williams

The Garbo Cloth
By Lucia Perillo

The Garden of Love
By William Blake

The Gate
By Marie Howe

The Gift
By Li-Young Lee

The Golden Schlemiel
By Irving Feldman

The Good Man in Hell
By Mark Jarman

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Great Blue Heron
By Carolyn Kizer

The Hanging Man
By Sylvia Plath

The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The heart asks pleasure first
By Emily Dickinson

The Heaven of Animals
By James L. Dickey

The Hill
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Hospital Window
By James L. Dickey

The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 72. The Choice, II
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 73. The Choice, III
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 97. A Superscription
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Indian Burying Ground
By Philip Morin Freneau

The Inheritance
By Stanley Moss

The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Journey
By James Wright

The King of Asini
By George Seferis

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lamp of Poor Souls
By Marjorie Pickthall

The Larger
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The Last Day
By George Seferis

The Last Laugh
By Wilfred Owen

The Last Man’s Club
By James Galvin

The Last Movie
By Rachel Hadas

The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro

The Legend
By Garrett Hongo

The Lifeguard
By James L. Dickey

The Light the Dead See
By Frank Stanford

The List
By A. F. Moritz

The Little White Hearse
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Lonely Death
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Lost Pilot
By James Tate

The Lowering
By May Swenson

The Maid’s Lament
By Walter Savage Landor

The Man Who Married Magdalene
By Louis Simpson

The Masked Face
By Thomas Hardy

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Minister
By Anne Stevenson

The Mother’s Charge
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Mountain Cemetery
By Edgar Bowers

The Mower
By Philip Larkin

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
By Andrew Marvell

The Odd Last Thing She Did
By Brad Leithauser

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Other Place
By William Logan

The Package
By Rodney Jones

The Panther
By Edwin Markham

The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Past
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Performance
By James L. Dickey

The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers

The Pond at Dusk
By Jane Kenyon

The Presence
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

The Prince's Progress
By Christina Rossetti

The Princess: As thro' the Land
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Rain Poured Down
By Dan Gerber

The Relic
By John Donne

The Revisionist Dream
By Maxine W. Kumin

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

the rites for Cousin Vit
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The River of Bees
By W. S. Merwin

The Role of Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

The Sailor's Grave at Clo-oose, V.I.
By Marjorie Pickthall

The Sea of Death
By Thomas Hood

The Search Party
By William Matthews

The Second Slaughter
By Lucia Perillo

The Shadow on the Stone
By Thomas Hardy

The Sick Rose
By William Blake

The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Starry Night
By Anne Sexton

The Step Mother
By Susanna Moodie

The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich

The Strife between the Poet and Ambition
By Thomas James Merton

The Sun-Struck Eagle
By Eleanor Percy Lee, Catherine Ana Warfield

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

from The Testament of John Lydgate
By John Lydgate

The Things in Black Men’s Closets
By E. Ethelbert Miller

The Thorn
By William Wordsworth

The To-be-forgotten
By Thomas Hardy

The Truth the Dead Know
By Anne Sexton

The Unknown
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Unknown Dead
By Henry Timrod

The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy
By G. E. Murray

The Unveiling
By Jane Miller

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

The Vacuum
By Howard Nemerov

The Verification of Vulnerability: Bog Turtle
By Pattiann Rogers

The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov

The Visitation
By Samuel Menashe

The War in the Air
By Howard Nemerov

The Watergaw
By Hugh MacDiarmid

the weather is hot on the back of my watch
By Charles Bukowski

The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
By William Carlos Williams

The Wife
By Marjorie Pickthall

The Wires of the Night
By Billy Collins

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

The Work
By Tom Sleigh

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith

Their Bodies
By David Wagoner

There was a Boy
By William Wordsworth

There was an Old Man of New York
By Edward Lear

There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
By Emily Dickinson

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

Think Also of Horseshoes
By Miller Williams

Thirty Years Later I Meet Your Seventeen-Year-Old Daughter the Poet
By Sandra M. Gilbert

This Day after Yesterday
By Philip Booth

This Hour and What Is Dead
By Li-Young Lee

This Room and Everything in It
By Li-Young Lee

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Thoughtless Cruelty
By Charles Lamb

Thoughts of a Solitary Farmhouse
By Franz Wright

Three Sonnets
By James Galvin

Three Years She Grew
By William Wordsworth

Through these Pale Cold Days
By Isaac Rosenberg

Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold

Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
By Emily Dickinson

Time to Come
By Walt Whitman

Time's Train
By Wyatt Prunty

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe

To a Child in Heaven
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Dead Lover
By Louise Bogan

To a Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks on His Barbed Wire
By David Wagoner

To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year
By Phillis Wheatley

To a Mountain Daisy
By Robert Burns

To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman

To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand
By Howard Nemerov

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To His Watch, When He Could Not Sleep
By Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury

To J. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To Kill a Deer
By Carol Frost

To Night
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey

To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
By John Dryden

To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber)
By Averill Curdy

To Theodore
By George Marion McClellan

To You
By Kevin A. González

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

Together
By R. S. Thomas

Tract
By William Carlos Williams

Tradition
By Lorine Niedecker

Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford

Triad
By Adelaide Crapsey

Triolet
By Sandra McPherson

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro

Twilight Blues
By Samuel Menashe

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Untitled Poem [“Why feel guilty because the death of a lover causes lust?”]
By Alan Dugan

Update on the Last Judgment
By Ellen Hinsey

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor

Valentine
By Elinor Wylie

Variations on a Text by Vallejo
By Donald Justice

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
By Jonathan Swift

Vesper Sparrows
By Deborah Digges

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
By Walt Whitman

Villon
By Basil Bunting

Virtue
By George Herbert

Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia
By Irene McKinney

Vita Nova
By Louise Glück

Wake Me in South Galway
By Richard Tillinghast

Wanting to Die
By Anne Sexton

from War is Kind ["Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind"]
By Stephen Crane

War Widow
By Chris Abani

Warm Summer Sun
By Mark Twain

Was He Married?
By Stevie Smith

Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert

Wasteful Gesture Only Not
By Tony Hoagland

wax job
By Charles Bukowski

We Are Seven
By William Wordsworth

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert

What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay

When I am dead, my dearest
By Christina Rossetti

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman

When You Are Not Surprised
By Conrad Aiken

Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot

White Apples
By Donald Hall

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Widow McFarlane
By Edgar Lee Masters

Winter
By Marie Ponsot

Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem
By Gregory Corso

Writing in the Afterlife
By Billy Collins

Year’s End
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Yee Bow
By Edgar Lee Masters

Yellow Dress
By Amy Beeder

Yesterdays
By Robert Creeley

You and Me and Veronica Lake
By Colleen J. McElroy

You That I Loved
By A. F. Moritz

You Were You Are Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

You Would Know
By Marvin Bell

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun

Young Man
By John Haines

Your Clothes
By Judith Kroll

Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz

Yourself
By Jones Very

Zeus to Juno
By Fiona Sampson

[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
By E. E. Cummings