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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.

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Famous PoemPoet
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