The Literature of Death

Aesop

  • The Old Man and Death

    Bronte, Charlotte

  • Excerpt from Jane Eyre

    Emily Bronte

  • Excerpt from Wuthering Heights

    Browning, Robert

  • The Bishop Orders his Tomb
  • A Grammarian's Funeral
  • My Last Dutchess

    Bryant, William Cullen

  • The Burial of Love
  • The Burial-Place
  • The Death of Lincoln
  • The Disinterred Warrior
  • Thanatopsis

    Lord Byron, George Gordon

  • Elegy
  • Elegy on Thyrza

    Carroll, Lewis

  • In the Valley of the Shadow of Death
  • The Willow Tree

    Cather, Willa

  • Excerpt from My Antonia

    Donne, John

  • Death Be Not Proud
  • The Funeral

    Frost, Robert

  • Death of the Hired Man

    Gray, Thomas

  • Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard
  • On A Favourite Cat Drowned...

    Brothers Grimm

  • Death's Messengers

    Irving, Washington

  • Westminster Abbey

    Jonson, Ben

  • Epitaph On Elizabeth L. H.

    Keats, John

  • On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
  • The Terror of Death

    Lawrence, D.H.

  • Troth with Death

    Macaulay, Thomas Babington

  • A Jacobite's Epitaph

    Mather, Cotton

  • The Last Days of Increase Mather

    Melville, Herman

  • Excerpt from Moby Dick

    Millay, Edna St. Vincent

  • The Shroud

    Milton, John

  • Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester
  • Lycidas
  • On A Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough
  • On The Late Massacre In Piemont

    Poe, Edgar Allan

  • Annabel Lee
  • Conqueror Worm
  • Lenore
  • The Premature Burial
  • Some Words with A Mummy
  • Spirits of the Dead

    Rosetti, Christina

  • Remember

    Sandburg, Carl

  • Graceland
  • The Right to Grief

    Shakespeare, William

  • Excerpt from Hamlet

    Shelley, Percy Bysshe

  • Ozymandias

    Swift, Jonathan

  • Excerpts from Gulliver's Travels

    Tennyson, Alfred Lord

  • Crossing the Bar
  • The Lady of Shalott
  • Morte d'Arthur

    Twain, Mark

  • Excerpt from Innocents Abroad

    Warren, Mercy

  • Death of Parson Caldwell's Wife

    Whitman, Walt

  • O Captain! My Captain!

    Wordsworth, William

  • Helvelyn
  • We are Seven



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