Famous Poems About Death

1. 
   Ozymandias

   by Percy Bysshe Shelley

   “I met a traveler from an antique land
   Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
2. 
   Annabel Lee

   by Edgar Allan Poe

   “It was many and many a year ago,
   In a kingdom by the sea,”
3. Nothing Gold Can Stay

   by Robert Frost

   “Nature's first green is gold,
   Her hardest hue to hold.”
4. 
   O Captain! My Captain!

   by Walt Whitman

   “O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
   The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,”
5. 
   Because I could not stop for Death

   by Emily Dickinson

   “Because I could not stop for Death,
   He kindly stopped for me;”
6. 
   In Flanders Fields

   by John McCrae

   “In Flanders fields the poppies blow
   Between the crosses, row on row,”
7. 
   The Charge of the Light Brigade

   by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

   “Half a league, half a league,
   Half a league onward,”
8. 
   Fire and Ice

   by Robert Frost

   “Some say the world will end in fire,
   Some say in ice.”
9. 
   The Lady of Shalott

   by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

   “On either side the river lie
   Long fields of barley and of rye,”
10. I heard a Fly buzz when I died

    by Emily Dickinson

    “I heard a Fly buzz when I died;
    The stillness round my form”
11. The Cremation of Sam McGee

    by Robert Service

    “There are strange things done in the midnight sun
    By the men who moil for gold;”
12. 
    Crossing the Bar

    by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    “Sunset and evening star,
    And one clear call for me!”
13. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

    by John Keats

    “When I have fears that I may cease to be
    Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,”
14. Holy Sonnet 10: Death, be not proud

    by John Donne

    “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
    Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”
15. Ulysses

    by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    “It little profits that an idle king,
    By this still hearth, among these barren crags,”
16. 
    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

    by Thomas Gray

    “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
    The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,”
17. 
    The Soldier

    by Rupert Brooke

    “If I should die, think only this of me:
    That there’s some corner of a foreign field”
18. 
    I Have a Rendezvous with Death

    by Alan Seeger

    “I have a rendezvous with Death
    At some disputed barricade”
19. 
    Horatius at the Bridge

    by Thomas Babington Macaulay

    “Lars Porsena of Clusium,
    By the Nine Gods he swore”
20. 
    Concord Hymn

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    “By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,”
21. 
    Remember

    by Christina Rossetti

    “Remember me when I am gone away,
    Gone far away into the silent land;”
22. 
    Casabianca

    by Felicia Hemans

    “The boy stood on the burning deck,
    Whence all but him had fled;”
23. The Cross of Snow

    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    “In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
    A gentle face — the face of one long dead —”
24. The Reaper and the Flowers

    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    “There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
    And, with his sickle keen,”

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