Anne Bradstreet, "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper"
Ben Johnson, "On My First Son"
David St. John, "Iris"
Douglas Crase, "The Elegy for New York"
Edward Hirsch, "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
Emily Bronte, "R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida"
Frank Bidart, "To the Dead"
Garrett Hongo, "The Legend"
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, "Supernatural Love"
Ivor Gurney, "To His Love"
John Crowe Ransom, "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"
John Milton, "Lycidas"
Katherine Philips, "Epitaph. On her Son H. P. at St. Syth's Church where
her body also lies Interred"
Louise Bogan, "Tears in Sleep"
Mark Doty, "Tiara"
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, "If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause"
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
Paula Meehan, "Child Burial"
Robert Lowell, "from The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"
Rosanna Warren, "Song"
Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Thomas Kinsella, "Mirror in February"
Walt Whitman, "O Captain! My Captain!"
W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
William Dunbar, "Lament for the Makaris"