Poems about Death

• The Dead

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

  by John Le Gay Brereton 14 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
• 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
• Lord I Owe Thee a Death

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

  by Alice Meynell 5 lines
• Death

  THROUGH some strange sense of sight or touch
  I find what all have found before,

  by Madison Julius Cawein 18 lines
• Old Ham Fresh Drest

  OLD HAM FRESH DREST , &c. BOOTED and spurr'd,
  our gallant wight

  by Michael Massey Robinson 140 lines, 1 comment
• The Mother Who Died Too

  SHE was so little—little in her grave,
    The wide earth all around so hard and cold—

  by Edith Matilda Thomas 7 lines, 1 comment
• The Death

  I’m hit. It’s come at last, I feel a smart
  Of needles in ……My God …. I’m hit again!

  by Leon Gellert 14 lines
• Epilogue

  He died in December. He must descend
  Somewhere, vague and cold, the spirit and seal.

  by John Berryman 5 lines
• The Man Has Spread His Silver Wings

  The man has spread his silver wings,
  Is six miles nearer heaven,

  by Elizabeth Aldrich 9 lines
• Death by Aesthetics

  Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover,
  dressed as a virgin, coming to keep the tryst.

  by Mona Van Duyn 68 lines
• Yut Ho

  GHOSTS, yu ask, in Chinytown? Say, ther ain't no moon to-night,
  An' the alley here is dark—let's move over to the light.

  by Wallace Irwin 152 lines
• One of the Bo'sun's Yarns

  Loafin' around in Sailor Town, a-bluin' o' my advance,
  I met a derelict donkyman who led me a merry dance,

  by John Masefield 68 lines
• That Exploit of Yours

  I meet with two soldiers sometimes here in Hell
  The one, with a tear on the seat of hi red pantaloons

  by Ford Madox Ford 17 lines
• To The Memory of My Father

  How we have sailed in half-forgotten ships,
  By shores unvisited, in boyish days;

  by Lincoln Colcord 18 lines
• Envoy

  Captain, Captain, heavy squall in sight;
  Just took in the royals, ship she jumps like mad.

  by Lincoln Colcord 30 lines
• The Song of Maria Clara

  Sweet the hours in the native country,
  where friendly shines the sun above!

  by Jose Rizal 13 lines, 2 comments

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