Poems about Death

• Tombs

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

  by Kostas Karyotakis 23 lines
• Eyes Look Into The Well

  Eyes look into the well,
  Tears run down from the eye;

  by W H Auden 13 lines
• Funeral Cortege

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

  by Changwan O 13 lines
• Mañana, como un monte que derrumba

  Mañana, como un monte que derrumba
  De noche y en sigilo su eminencia,—

  by Jose Marti 5 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
• The Lost Steamship

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

  by Fitz James O'Brien 97 lines
• Upon A Child

  Here a pretty baby lies
  Sung asleep with lullabies;

  by Robert Herrick 3 lines
• The Time Before Death

  Friend? hope for the Guest while you are alive.
  Jump into experience while you are alive!

  by Kabir 26 lines
• The Comrade

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 79 lines
• The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House

  That night when through the mooring-chains
  The wide-eyed corpse rolled free,

  by Rudyard Kipling 126 lines
• In The Graveyard

  'Mid the half-lit air, and the lonely place,
      Rose the buried Pleasures of perish'd years.

  by McDonald Clarke 40 lines
• Last Lines

  Death stands above me, whispering low
    I know not what into my ear:

  by Walter Savage Landor 3 lines
• On The Wire

  O God, take the sun from the sky!
      It's burning me, scorching me up.

  by Robert W Service 97 lines, 1 comment
• Davy Jones's Locker

  Shipmates o' mine, are you sleeping fair an' sound,
      Mates fair an' foul, friend an' foe,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines
• The Ballad Of Rosalie

  There came a knight to the river-side —
      Ah, Rosalie!

  by Cicely Fox Smith 68 lines
• Queen Radegund

  Between the dark and the day,
  To the King's room where he lay

  by Cicely Fox Smith 86 lines
• Reflection.

  In midst of life we are in death;
  And breathing brings to loss of breath;

  by Samuel Bamford 4 lines
• Now ‘Neath the Cool Stars

  Now ‘neath the cool stars
  I know thee more.

  by Leon Gellert 18 lines
• To a Man who Wished to Die

  And now that you are dead, - If I should die
  Upon this ground,

  by Leon Gellert 19 lines
• A Winter Walk

  It is not often Sunday draws
      Me to that house where good men come;

  by John Albee 60 lines, 2 comments
• “The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still”

  The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still
  And I remember things I'd best forget.

  by Siegfried Sassoon 56 lines
• The Bivoac Of The Dead

  The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
    The soldier's last tattoo;

  by Theodore O'Hara 106 lines
• The Burial: In Memory of W.L.E.

  What task is this that so unnerves me now?
  When pity should be dead, and has been dead.

  by Leon Gellert 14 lines
• Lines, On The Death Of My Friend, Joseph Taylor, Of Oldham.

  Oh Death, how placid is thy sleep!
  The seal of a long dreamless rest;

  by Samuel Bamford 26 lines
• Beside a Deathbed

  Her spirit hiding among skin and bones
  In willingness and wariness waits death

  by Vassar Miller 14 lines
• The Staircase

  The stairs mount to his eternity
  the rotted floor, the dripping faucet

  by Samuel Washington Allen 23 lines
• Jim

  We couldn't make him out; he seldom spoke;
  We never caught him smiling at a joke —

  by Harry Kemp 23 lines
• Faux Pas

  I sat with you in a back pew when
  your father died; for you, stared at so long,

  by Vassar Miller 11 lines
• Epitaph, On A Young Man Who Was Drowned.

  Not human speech nor human wail can tell
  The grief of heart for one beloved so well:

  by Samuel Bamford 9 lines
• The Old Men Used to Sing

  The old men used to sing
  And lifted a brother

  by Annie Louisa Walker 18 lines

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