There are 102 poems for Funerals
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
By Carl Sandburg
Lullaby 
By Amanda Jernigan
Monody
By Herman Melville
Mountain Dulcimer 
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 
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 
By Albert Goldbarth
Sunday Morning 
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 
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 
By Mary Jo Bang
Young Man
By John Haines
Your Clothes 
By Judith Kroll
Youth and Calm
By Matthew Arnold
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