This memorable collection, designed to offer comfort and inspiration to the bereaved, contains about 90 poems including the 23rd Psalm, "Death Be Not Proud," "Crossing the Bar," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," plus works by Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Browning, Whitman, Swinburne, Kipling, Frost, and Auden.

Table of Contents for Poems of Solace and Remembrance

King James Bible
Psalm 23 (The Lord is my shepherd)
Walter Raleigh
Even Such Is Time
William Shakespeare
"Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth"
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
John Donne
"Death, Be Not Proud"
Ben Johnson
On My First Son
Robert Herrick
Eternity
Francis Quarles
A Good-Night
George Herbert
Virtue
John Milton
On Time
Richard Crashaw
An Epitaph Upon Husband and Wife
Henry Vaughan
They Are All Gone into the World of Light
Peace
Alexander Pope
The Dying Christian to His Soul
Ode on Solitude
William Cowper
Light Shining Out of Darkness
William Wordsworth
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Walter Savage Landor
I Strove with None
Death
Felicia Dorothea Hermans
Dirge
John Clare
I Am
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To the Fringed Gentian
Blessed Are They That Mourn
Hartley Coleridge
Early Death
Thomas Hood
The Death-Bed
"John Henry, Cardinal Newman"
Rest
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Dirge
Edgar Allan Poe
To One in Paradise
Sarah Flower Adams
The Mourners Came at Break of Day
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Sleep
Charles Doyne Sillery
She Died in Beauty
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Rainy Day
A Psalm of Life
Caroline Elizabeth Norton
"Not Lost, But Gone Before"
Edward FitzGerald
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Crossing the Bar
From In Memoriam
James Aldrich
A Death-Bed
William Bell Scott
My Mother
Robert Browning
Prospice
Christopher Cranch
Enosis
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Sorrow
Emily Brontë
No Coward Soul Is Mine
Sympathy
Remembrance
James Russell Lowell
The First Snow-Fall
Walt Whitman
"At the Last, Tenderly"
"Darest Thou Now, O
Matthew Arnold
Requiescat
Emily Dickinson
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
"After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes"
I Never Saw a Moor
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Up-Hill
When I Am Dead
Remember
Rest
Elizabeth Akers
Endurance
James Thomson
A Requiem
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
Lizzie Clark Hardy
Some Time at Eve
John Addington Symonds
Lux Est Umbra Dei
Thomas Hardy
Transformations
The Darkling Thrush
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Carrion Comfort)
John Banister Tabb
Evolution
William Ernest Henley
Invictus
James Whitcomb Riley
Away
Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem
In Memoriam F. A. S.
John Davidson
Song
A. E. Housman
The Night Is Freezing Fast
To an Athlete Dying Young
With Rue My Heart is Laden
George Santayana
To W. P. II
Rudyard Kipling
The Widower
Paul Laurence Dunbar
When All Is Done
Robert Frost
Acceptance
John Masefield
A Song at Parting
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dirge Without Music
W. H. Auden
Funeral Blues
Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

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