Poems about Death

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

by Dylan Thomas 23 lines, 58 comments
Crossing the Bar

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!

by Alfred Lord Tennyson 18 lines, 15 comments
So, is it Death at Last

So! Is it death at last
Coming so gentle-wise?

by Dame Mary Gilmore DBE 9 lines
The Loved One

Today, there are not tears enough
Yesterday, she was here

by Andrew Todd 17 lines, 1 comment
The Seed-Merchants Son

The Seed-Merchant has lost his son,
His dear, his loved, his only one.

by Agnes Grozier Herbertson 37 lines
Basho's Death Poem

Sick on my journey,
only my dreams will wander

by Matsuo Basho 4 lines, 4 comments
Peace

by Langston Hughes 18 lines
The Woman Of The Mountain Keens Her Son

Grief on the death, it has blackened my heart:
It has snatched my low and left me desolate,

by Padraic Pearse 23 lines
Question [1]

When the old junk man Death
Comes

by Langston Hughes 15 lines
Barbara Allen's Cruelty

In Scarlet towne, where I was borne,
There was a faire maid dwellin,

by Thomas Percy 79 lines, 3 comments
Graveyard

Holding a yellow chrysanthemum in the early morning
I visited the graveyard

by Chonmyong No 14 lines, 1 comment
I wish to leave the world

I wish to leave the world
By its natural door;

by Jose Marti 7 lines
After

Put your man down somewhere
in a good lasting soil.

by Kendrick Smithyman 14 lines
Yo quiero salir del mundo (Verso XXIII)

Yo quiero salir del mundo
Por la puerta natural:

by Jose Marti 10 lines
Yo pienso cuando me alegro (Verso XXV)

Yo pienso, cuando me alegro
Como un escolar sencillo,

by Jose Marti 10 lines
En el bote iba remando (Verso XII)

En el bote iba remando
Por el lago seductor

by Jose Marti 10 lines
The Way To Father's Grave

Beat in the fumy heat,
among the seared pines,

by Changwan O 23 lines
Deaths of Flowers

I would if I could choose
Age and die outwards as a tulip does;

by Edith Joy Scovell 12 lines, 1 comment
Imaginary Suicides

They turn the key in the door, take out
their old, well-hidden letters,

by Kostas Karyotakis 25 lines
Funeral Cortege

Into the moon-lit night
go, oh funeral bier,

by Changwan O 13 lines
Cese, señora, el duelo

Cese, señora, el duelo en vuestro canto,
¿Qué fuera nuestra vida sin enojos?

by Jose Marti 11 lines
Critique

This is no longer a song, no human
hum. It can be heard reaching

by Kostas Karyotakis 7 lines
Preveza

Death is the bullies bashing
against the black walls and roof tiling,

by Kostas Karyotakis 28 lines
Tombs

Helen S. Lamari, 1878-1912
Poet and musician.

by Kostas Karyotakis 23 lines
After The Storm

O the calling of the waves on the pebbled beach below,
And the seagull sweeping o'er the waters grey!

by Cicely Fox Smith 29 lines
The Lost Steamship

"HO, there,! Fisherman, hold your hand!
Tell me what is that far away,—

by Fitz James O Brien 97 lines, 1 comment
To — —, During His Illness

Ah! linger yet — a God of love is breathing
New life and passion through the frozen earth,

by L. Virginia Smith French 106 lines
Por la tumba del cortijo (Verso XXVIII)

Por la tumba del cortijo
Donde está el padre enterrado,

by Jose Marti 16 lines
The Comrade

"Father, I gave my gold and gear,
Cattle and goods full tale,

by Cicely Fox Smith 79 lines
Posthumous Fame

Our death is needed by the boundless nature all around
and is craved by the purple mouths of flowers.

by Kostas Karyotakis 18 lines

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