Poems for a Funeral

On the death of a loved one, poetry can console, help make sense of things or rejoice in a life that has been lived.

• Anon - Little Snowdrop
• WH Auden - Funeral Blues
• Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband
• Rupert Brooke - The Soldier
• GK Chesterton - The Rolling English Road
• William Henry Davies - Leisure
• Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for death
• Edward Fitzgerald - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza 51
• Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
• Mary Elizabeth Frye - Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
• Thomas Hardy - Afterwards
• AE Housman - Into My Heart an Air that Kills
• Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb
• Louis MacNiece - The Sunlight on the Garden
• John Gillespie Magee - High Flight
• John Masefield - Sea-Fever
• Christina Rossetti - Remember
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
• James Shirley - Death the Leveller
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Requiem
• WB Yeats - An Irish Airman forsees his Death