Nothing but Death by Pablo Neruda
Love and Death by Sara Teasdale
Excerpt:
Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep, And shall my soul that lies within your hand Remember nothing, as the blowing sand Forgets the palm where long blue shadows creep When winds along the darkened desert sweep?
And you as well must die by Edna St. Vincent Millay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB3bvRhxev4&feature=youtu.be
Death poem by Moriya Sen’an
我死なば 酒屋の瓶の下にいけよ もしや雫の もりやせんなん
Ware shinaba sakaya no kame no shita ni ikeyo moshi ya shizuku no mori ya sen nan
Bury me when I die beneath a wine barrel in a tavern. With luck the cask will leak
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
(Here’s the author himself reading it. And of course, there’s this version too.) On Death by Percy Bysshe Shelley Excerpt: The pale, the cold, and the moony smile Which the meteor beam of a starless night Sheds on a lonely and sea-girt isle, Ere the dawning of morn’s undoubted light, Is the flame of life so fickle and wan That flits round our steps till their strength is gone. My God, It’s Full of Stars by Tracy K. Smith
(Read the full poem here.) Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson Excerpt: Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality. Grief by Matthew Dickman
Execution poem by Seong Sam-mun Excerpt: 이 몸이 죽어 가서 무어시 될고 하니, 봉래산(蓬萊山) 제일봉(第一峯)에 낙락장송(落落長松) 되야 이셔, 백설(白雪)이 만건곤(滿乾坤)할 제 독야청청(獨也靑靑) 하리라. What shall I become when this body is dead and gone? A tall, thick pine tree on the highest peak of Bongraesan, Evergreen alone when white snow covers the whole world. What poems about death have stuck with you over the years?
