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Why are these among the most popular poems?

 

 

We have chosen some of the most popular poems here that express feelings of grief, loss, love and life.  

They are often read at funerals, and many people have found help and comfort in these lines of poetry and we hope you will too.

1 Do Not Stand By My Grave and Weep

Mary Frye

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 2 And You As Well Must Die

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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3 I Fall Asleep in the Full and Certain Hope

Samuel Butler

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4 No Night Without

Helen Steiner Rice

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5 First Fig

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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6 He is Gone

David Harkins

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7 If I Should Go

Joyce Grenfell

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8 Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Emily Dickinson

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9 Death is Nothing At All

Henry Scott Holland

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10 A Happy Man

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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