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Famous Death Poems | Examples of Famous Death Poetry

These are examples of famous Death poems written by famous poets. PoetrySoup is a great resource of famous Death poems about Death. These examples illustrate what famous Death poems looks like and its form.

Famous Poem	Poet
Death, Be Not Proud	John Donne
The City In the Sea	Edgar Allan Poe
Tears, Idle Tears	Alfred Lord Tennyson
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General	Jonathan Swift
The Flea	John Donne
Sonnet 55	William Shakespeare
To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband	Phillis Wheatley
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Alfred Lord Tennyson
Youth and Age	George (Lord) Byron
To a Skylark	Percy Bysshe Shelley
Humanity i love you	Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon	Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
The Skeleton in Armor	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunday Morning	Wallace Stevens
O sweet spontaneous	Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower	Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
To the Honourable T. H. Esq; on the Death of his Daughter	Phillis Wheatley
Her final summer was it	Emily Dickinson
Written among the Euganean Hills North Italy	Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death	John Donne
Since Feeling is First	Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
To a Lady with a Guitar	Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sunflower Sutra	Allen Ginsberg
A Hymn to God the Father	John Donne
Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples	Percy Bysshe Shelley
On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age	Phillis Wheatley
To the Night	Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elegy on Thyrza	George (Lord) Byron
Elegy	George (Lord) Byron
Sonnets from the Portuguese i	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Come down O Maid	Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sonnets from the Portuguese ii	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Church Going	Philip Larkin
David Cleek	Siegfried Sassoon
The Heritage	Siegfried Sassoon
Hellas	Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn of Pan	Percy Bysshe Shelley
From the Arabic: AN IMITATION	Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Death of the Flowers	William Cullen Bryant
Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight	Galway Kinnell
Easter	Edmund Spenser
From 'Daphnaïda'	Edmund Spenser
The Conqueror's Grave	William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis	William Cullen Bryant
On Frozen Fields	Galway Kinnell
Astrophel and Stella	Sir Philip Sidney
We continue	W S Merwin
History	Robert Lowell
TO HIS FATHER	Robinson Jeffers
The Box	Lascelles Abercrombie
White Flock	Anna Akhmatova
Voltaire at Ferney	Wystan Hugh (W H) Auden
DON JUAN	George (Lord) Byron
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
somewhere	Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
The Sphinx	Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE ROAD TO HAWORTH MOOR	Barry Tebb
The Changeling ( From The Tent on the Beach )	John Greenleaf Whittier
Do People moulder equally,	Emily Dickinson
Four Quartets 2: East Coker	Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages	Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
For this -- accepted Breath	Emily Dickinson
Give little Anguish	Emily Dickinson
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding	Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Delayed till she had ceased to know	Emily Dickinson
To a Lady	William Dunbar
The Waste Land	Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Suspense -- is Hostiler than Death --	Emily Dickinson
Soul, take thy risk.	Emily Dickinson
Sweet -- safe -- Houses	Emily Dickinson
Me prove it now -- Whoever doubt	Emily Dickinson
Of Death I try to think like this --	Emily Dickinson
Longfellow	Henry Van Dyke
Holy Sonnet XVI: Father, Part Of His Double Interest	John Donne
This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life	Emily Dickinson
I have no Life but this --	Emily Dickinson
Afraid! Of whom am I afraid?	Emily Dickinson
A bath when you're born	Kobayashi Issa
Death is a Dialogue between	Emily Dickinson
Awake ye muses nine	Emily Dickinson
There's a certain Slant of light,	Emily Dickinson
The Knight's Tale	Geoffrey Chaucer
The General Prologue	Geoffrey Chaucer
ARCADIAN WINTER	Willa Cather
POPPIES ON LUDLOW CASTLE	Willa Cather
Death Fugue	Paul Celan
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John	Thomas Carew
I Do Not Love Thee For That Fair	Thomas Carew
The Witch	Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Fit the First: ( Hunting of the Snark )	Lewis Carroll
The Hunting Of The Snark	Lewis Carroll
Filthy Savior	Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Immortality	Ellis Parker Butler
Gamajun, the Prophetic Bird	Aleksandr Blok
The Young that Died in Beauty	William Barnes
The Girt Woak Tree	William Barnes
Music on Christmas Morning	Anne Bronte
Night	Anne Bronte
Parting Address From Z.Z. To A.E.	Anne Bronte
Power of Love	Anne Bronte