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
2 And You As Well Must Die
Edna St. Vincent Millay
3 I Fall Asleep in the Full and Certain Hope
Samuel Butler
4 No Night Without
Helen Steiner Rice
5 First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay
6 He is Gone
David Harkins
7 If I Should Go
Joyce Grenfell
8 Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
9 Death is Nothing At All
Henry Scott Holland
10 A Happy Man
Edwin Arlington Robinson
