Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Hundreds of short poems circling death, loss and the moment just after grief arrives. Dickinson published almost nothing while she lived and wrote the most quoted lines about dying in American poetry.

Emily Dickinson

The war poems of a soldier killed a week before the armistice, including Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth. Owen said his subject was war, and the pity of war.

Wilfred Owen

Sixty three poems about young men who die young, written in deceptively simple verse. The melancholy is constant and the language never gets in its way.

A. E. Housman

The quietest of the three sisters wrote verse about faith, isolation and endurance under conditions she did not choose. Published under a pen name and overshadowed ever since.

Anne Bronte