We’ve rounded up 40 moving poems to read at a funeral, share with someone who has lost a loved one or help you mourn. Some of these are short poems, while others are excerpts from longer poetry ...

The short story follows ... 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 ...

Toward the end of her life Marianne Moore wrote a short poem called "O To Be a Dragon ... told us that poetry is dead. Let's build a funeral pyre out of the dessicated conventions piled around ...

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 ...

We didn't go far -- just across Majuro's kidney-bean lagoon -- but even that short journey was revelatory ... Appropriate for a funeral. A child's first birthday, or kemem, is perhaps the most ...

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

Marla was still typing. It was hard to overstate how attentive, professional, and educated she was—she had a master’s in ...

"He used to quote a poem (by Austin Dobson): 'Fame is a food ... In Real Life: This seems unlikely because of the noise and the very short races, but it happens. "If you're running out of the ...

Smoke rises and swirls, and we breathe the lush scent that perfumed the funerals of Egyptian pharaohs ... there may be no short-term solution. In the meantime Banfield and other conservationists ...

Osvaldo Golijov’s opera about Federico García Lorca makes its Met debut in a dance-heavy production, directed by the ...