Poems of Wilfred Owen

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

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

Poems of grief, masking and dignity from one of the first Black writers to reach a wide readership. We Wear the Mask remains the definitive poem about performing contentment.

Paul Laurence Dunbar