To celebrate National Poetry Day we've rounded up the best poems for reading at weddings, funerals and other occasions.

This posthumously published poem takes readers on an emotional journey, from the joyous pealing of wedding bells to the somber toll of funeral chimes, and brilliantly explains what each of these ...

Former President Bill Clinton stunned listeners Wednesday by claiming at the funeral of Ethel Kennedy that the recently ...

Poets who compile anthologies--or even reading lists--should be scrupulously honest in including only poems they genuinely ... Let's build a funeral pyre out of the dessicated conventions piled ...

It was the night before the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II ... To everyone's delight, the man read a poem he had written about the late Queen's 70-year reign. In a fitting tribute, he spoke ...

Former Gov. Winfield Dunn's grandchildren served as pallbearers at his Nashville funeral on Friday. He died on Sept. 28 at ...

The Hong Kong writer’s penchant for transforming taboo subjects—death, illness, or gender—into fodder for intellectual ...

Look at me naked. This performance of humanity, mostly for an outside, adjudicating world, is not just a Palestinian ...

It wasn't meant to be sent to her, but drawing on her people-reading skills as a tarot card reader, she decides to attend the funeral of the ... short stories and poems, along with letters ...

Before the war in Gaza, the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis was a regularly functioning hospital. Patients would come ...

His coffin was carried into the busy church to a funeral hymn based on the poem Crossing the Bar by Lord Tennyson. The remainder of the service featured hymns, readings, poetry, and a solo cello ...

In addition to the eulogy from Charles Dunn, both daughters offered scripture readings at the service. The funeral bulletin for the service also included a poem written by the former governor ...