Poems about death can help comfort you after losing a loved one. We are driven to find release and comfort from other people's stories about the same experience.

Poems about Death. Published: Nov. 07, 2007, 10:07 p.m. By . Linda Goertz; Occasionally my boss and I alert each other to poems that we've read recently and liked -- and can you IMAGINE how cool ...

Poems of Comfort and Sympathy for Lost Loved Ones . After a death, one of the best ways you can comfort someone is to offer ...

Donald Hall reflects on the poetry of his late wife, Jane Kenyon, on mortality, and on how her death influenced his own work.

‘90% of the Poems Here Are About Death’: Ukraine Grieves a Poet-Soldier Maksym Kryvtsov's verses connected people with the front lines. Last month, he was killed in battle.

The strangeness of the medieval poem “Pearl,” now out in a new translation, magnifies its emotional power. Courtesy The British Library Board, Cotton Nero A. X, art.3, f.42 ...

That’s the title of one of Nicole Sealey’s many poems about life, death and the search for meaning in her debut poetry collection, “Ordinary Beast.” (It is also the final line of a famous ...

To mark the December 10 birthday of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), today we offer our readers an emblematic Dickinson poem: a poem about death. Reading Dickinson, we can readily feel that for every poem ...