IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.

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There are 102 poems for Funerals

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A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë

A Saxon Epitaph
By Marjorie Pickthall

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

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

An Afternoon at the Beach First appeared in Poetry
By Edgar Bowers

An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin

An Autograph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas

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

At a Country Funeral
By Wendell Berry

“Although the wind ...”
By Izumi Shikibu

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

Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede

Bereavement
By William Lisle Bowles

Beyond the Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Hanson Towne

Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Charon’s Cosmology
By Charles Simic

Child of a Day
By Walter Savage Landor

Consolation
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Crossing the Bar
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams

Dirge Without Music
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Double Elegy
By Michael S. Harper

Dream Land
By Christina Rossetti

Epitaph
By Katherine Philips

Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie

Epitaph for a Romantic Woman
By Louise Bogan

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

Feeding Our Ancient Ancestors First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

Feel Me
By May Swenson

Fifteen Epitaphs I
By Louise Imogen Guiney

For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson

For Weeks After the Funeral
By Andrea Hollander Budy

From a Daybook First appeared in Poetry
By David St. John

Grown about by Fragrant Bushes
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty

Her Garden
By Donald Hall

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne

How It Is
By Maxine W. Kumin

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

Immortality
By Matthew Arnold

In Memory of a Child
By Vachel Lindsay

In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg

Lament
By Thom Gunn

Little Elegy
By Elinor Wylie

Little Father
By Li-Young Lee

Lost First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Lullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Amanda Jernigan

Monody
By Herman Melville

Mountain Dulcimer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Morgan

Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

My Grave
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Nature
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman

On a Dead Child
By Robert Bridges

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë

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

Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our Father
By Irving Feldman

Past and Future
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Posthumous First appeared in Poetry
By Jean Nordhaus

Prisoners
By Denise Levertov

Prospice
By Robert Browning

Remember
By Christina Rossetti

Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold

Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson

Safe in their alabaster chambers
By Emily Dickinson

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

Sonnet: Grief Dies
By Henry Timrod

Stationed First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Sunday Morning First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

The Bustle in a House (1108)
By Emily Dickinson

The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson

The Dying Child
By John Clare

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

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

The Little White Hearse
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Lowering
By May Swenson

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Mountain Cemetery
By Edgar Bowers

The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Truth the Dead Know
By Anne Sexton

The Widow’s Lament in Springtime First appeared in Poetry
By William Carlos Williams

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Three Years She Grew
By William Wordsworth

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

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay

When I am dead, my dearest
By Christina Rossetti

You Were You Are Elegy First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Jo Bang

Young Man
By John Haines

Your Clothes First appeared in Poetry
By Judith Kroll

Youth and Calm
By Matthew Arnold