Poems about Death

• In The Event Of My Demise

  In the event of my Demise
  when my heart can beat no more

  by Tupac Shakur 12 lines, 20 comments
• Derelict

  Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest—
  Drink and the devil had done for the rest—

  by Young Ewing Allison 70 lines, 3 comments
• Crossing the Bar

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

  by Alfred Lord Tennyson 18 lines, 19 comments
• The Water Lily

  A lonely young wife
          In her dreaming discerns

  by Henry Lawson 30 lines, 5 comments
• 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, 6 comments
• So, is it Death at Last

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

  by Dame Mary Gilmore DBE 9 lines
• Peace

  We passed their graves:
  The dead men there,

  by Langston Hughes 7 lines
• The Loved One

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

  by Andrew Todd 17 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
• Barbara Allen's Cruelty

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

  by Thomas Percy 79 lines, 3 comments
• I wish to leave the world

  I wish to leave the world
  By its natural door;

  by Jose Marti 7 lines
• Question [1]

  When the old junk man Death
  Comes to gather up our bodies

  by Langston Hughes 7 lines
• Yo pienso cuando me alegro (Verso XXV)

  Yo pienso, cuando me alegro
  Como un escolar sencillo,

  by Jose Marti 10 lines
• Yo quiero salir del mundo (Verso XXIII)

  Yo quiero salir del mundo
  Por la puerta natural:

  by Jose Marti 10 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
• The Suicide's Soliloquy

  Here, where the lonely hooting owl
  Sends forth his midnight moans,

  by Abraham Lincoln 35 lines
• Graveyard

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

  by Chonmyong No 14 lines, 1 comment
• Preveza

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

  by Kostas Karyotakis 28 lines
• (From) The Invocation to Kali

  There are times when
  I think only of killing

  by May Sarton 92 lines, 1 comment
• En el bote iba remando (Verso XII)

  En el bote iba remando
  Por el lago seductor

  by Jose Marti 10 lines
• Cese, señora, el duelo

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

  by Jose Marti 11 lines
• Imaginary Suicides

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

  by Kostas Karyotakis 25 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
• After

  Put your man down somewhere
  in a good lasting soil.

  by Kendrick Smithyman 14 lines
• Critique

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

  by Kostas Karyotakis 7 lines
• Por la tumba del cortijo (Verso XXVIII)

  Por la tumba del cortijo
  Donde está el padre enterrado,

  by Jose Marti 16 lines
• Black Bonnets

  A day of seeming innocence,
  A glorious sun and sky,

  by Henry Lawson 121 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 Way To Father's Grave

  Beat in the fumy heat,
  among the seared pines,

  by Changwan O 23 lines

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