Thirteen Poems on Death

1. But a Short Time to Live
   — Leslie Coulson
2. A Thought on Death
   — Anna Lætitia Barbauld
3. Dead Men Tell No Tales
   — Haniel Long
4. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
   — Dylan Thomas
5. Funeral Bliss
   — W.H. Auden
6. I Did Not Die
   — Mary Elizabeth Frye
7. Norse Lullaby
   — Eugene Field
8. Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
   — Gerald Manley Hopkins
9. The Bride
   — D.H. Lawrence
10. To One Shortly to Die
    — Walt Whitman
11. Canto XV of Inferno
    from The Divine Comedy
    — Dante Alighieri
12. He Comes in the Night
    — Anonymous
13. Undrawn Shade
    — Sharon Skinner

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