Famous Burials Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Burials poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous burials poems. These examples illustrate what a famous burials poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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O Living Always—Always Dying

by Walt Whitman
 O LIVING always—always dying! 
O the burials of me, past and present! 
O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever! 
O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not—I am content;) 
O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at, where I cast
 them!
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