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Poems about death

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thumb|upright=1.3|"Erlkönig" painting, Moritz von Schwind thumb|upright=1.3|The Erlking by Albert Sterner, ca. 1910

In Flanders Fields

O Captain! My Captain!

poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln

genre of poetry

The Charge of the Light Brigade

poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

poem by Oscar Wilde, published in 1898

The Phoenix and the Turtle

poem by William Shakespeare

poem written by Edgar Allan Poe

Do not go gentle into that good night

poem by Dylan Thomas

Japanese military song

Death of the Poet

poem by Mikhail Lermontov

The Death of Smail-aga Čengić

poem by Ivan Mažuranić

The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality

thumb thumb|A page from Night-Thoughts, illustrated by William Blake

poem written by William Wordsworth in 1799

English poem by Felicia Hemans

poem written by William Wordsworth

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Death Be Not Proud

poem by John Donne