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O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman 1891
Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas 1937
And death shall have no dominion Dylan Thomas 1943
In Flanders Fields John McCrae 1915
Because I could not stop for Death (479) Emily Dickinson 1951
On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips Anna Williams 1766
A Triviality Waring Cuney 1927
Singing Funeral féi hernandez 2022
Wake Cry Waring Cuney 1922
For Kathryn Laura Tohe 2021
William and Emily Edgar Lee Masters 1915
Serepta Mason Edgar Lee Masters 1915
The Death of Columbine Evelyn Scott 1920
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
Bones Carl Sandburg 1920
Initials Alfred Kreymborg 1920
Kal Fatimah Asghar 2018
Father replays the funeral in Dream #28 Margo Tamez 2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year Dean Rader 2019
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2019

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