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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. - Carl Sandburg

1. The Last Word by Matthew Arnold

   Creep into thy narrow bed,
   Creep, and let no more be said!
   

2. Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant

   on going peacefully

3. When Coldness Wraps this Suffering Clay by Lord Byron
4. Heraclitus by William Cory

   on hearing of the death of a dear friend

5. Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
6. My life closed twice before its close by Emily Dickinson
7. The Dance of Death by Austin Dobson
8. Death Be Not Proud by John Donne

   death's power is shown to be empty

9. Lay a Garland on My Hearse by John Fletcher
10. Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? by Thomas Hardy
11. His Meditation upon Death by Robert Herrick
12. To Daffodills by Robert Herrick
13. To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman

    we cheer our heroes in life and in death

14. With Rue My Heart Is Laden by A. E. Housman
15. Is My Team Ploughing? by A. E. Housman
16. Death by James Leigh Hunt
17. Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? by William Knox
18. Death Stands Above Me by Walter Savage Landor
19. The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
20. Post Mortem by Arthur Munby
21. Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

    written during WW I after the first use of Chlorine gas

22. Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
23. A Night-Piece on Death by Thomas Parnell
24. The Dying Christian To His Soul by Alexander Pope
25. I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . . by Alan Seeger
26. The Discoverer by Edmund Clarence Stedman
27. Mors Benefica by Edmund Clarence Stedman
28. Come not, when I am dead by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
29. All the Flowers by John Webster

    ...Who seek by trophies and dead things
    To leave a living name behind,
    And weave but nets to catch the wind.