Recommended reading

Poetry

The poems listed are a selection of poems about death which we find moving, interesting, or helpful. Some of them are closer to the Pagan worldview than others. Most are links to a Google search because poetry sites keep disappearing (presumably for copyright reasons).

On this website:

• Open Sea by Lanxin Curto
• Prayer from words by Dion Fortune
• Four elements chant
• Farewell
• Celtic Devotional by Caitlin Matthews
• Deep peace (adapted from traditional Celtic blessing)
• Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep

On other websites:

• "Funeral Blues" by W H Auden
• "Old Moon" by Yvonne Aburrow
• "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas
• "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" by Dylan Thomas
• "I seem to have loved you..." by Rabindranath Tagore
• Various death poems on the Life Rites web site
• "I Have a Rendezvous With Death" by Alan Seeger
• "Because I could not stop for death" by Emily Dickinson from Time and Eternity
• "Life and Death, they are one" by Rainer Maria Rilke
• "Gacela of the Dark Death" by Federico García Lorca
• Futility by Wilfrid Owen
• Haiku death poetry: Some really beautiful Japanese haiku on death and dying
• Poems by Aldous Huxley from the novel Island
• Download all the poetry in one zip file

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