Poems about Death

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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
Black Bonnets

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

by Henry Lawson 121 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
Eyes Fastened With Pins

How much death works,
No one knows what a long

by Charles Simic 29 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
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
Queen Radegund

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

by Cicely Fox Smith 86 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
The Ballad Of Rosalie

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

by Cicely Fox Smith 68 lines
Eyes Look Into The Well

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

by W H Auden 13 lines
Upon A Child

Here a pretty baby lies
Sung asleep with lullabies;

by Robert Herrick 3 lines
Last Lines

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

by Walter Savage Landor 3 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 20 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
Jim

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

by Harry Kemp 23 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
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 Dead

Hail and farewell to those who fought and died,
Not laughingly adventurous, nor pale

by John Le Gay Brereton 14 lines
Man In The Sea

If ever you've heard it ringing, wild from the mast and clear,
If you've seen the watches running, their faces blanched with fear,

by Bill Adams 24 lines
The Old Men Used to Sing

The old men used to sing
And lifted a brother

by Annie Louisa Walker 18 lines
Lord I Owe Thee a Death

(Richard Hooker)
Man pays the debt with new munificence,

by Alice Meynell 5 lines
A Winter Walk

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

by John Albee 60 lines, 1 comment
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 Staircase

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

by Samuel Washington Allen 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
“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
Signal Bill

'Twas what ye'd call a nasty night,
An' 'twa''t no time to pick a fight,

by Burt Franklin Jenness 78 lines, 1 comment
Beside a Deathbed

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

by Vassar Miller 14 lines

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