Contents

Introduction
A Note on the Text

Anonymous
Cock Robin
The Corpus Christi Carol
The Three Ravens
Sir Patrick Spens
The Wife of Usher s Well
from Pearl
Dahn the Plug ole

Raymond Antrobus (1986 )
Sound Machine

Matthew Arnold (1822 1892)
Memorial Verses

W. H. Auden (1907 1973)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats

William Barnes (1801 1886)
The Music o the Dead
The Wife a-Lost
Woak Hill

Paul Batchelor (1977 )
Pit Ponies

Hilaire Belloc (1870 1953)
Matilda

Gwendolyn Bennett (1902 1981)
Epitaph

John Berryman (1914 1972)
Dream Song 155

The King James Bible (1611)
2 Samuel 1
Ecclesiastes 3

Laurence Binyon (1869 1943)
For the Fallen

Bion (c . 120 57 BCE)
Lament for Adonis

Elizabeth Bishop (1911 1979)
North Haven

William Blake (1757 1827)
Nurse s Song (Songs of Innocence)
Nurse s Song (Songs of Experience)
The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence)
The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Experience)

Ma lika Booker (1970 )
Death of an Overseer

Elizabeth Boyd (c . 1710 1745)
On the Death of an Infant of Five Days Old

Anne Bradstreet (1612 1672)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild, Elizabeth Bradstreet

Ka mau Brathwaite (1930 2020)
Elegy for Rosita

Robert Bridges (1844 1930)
On a Dead Child

Charlotte Brontë (1816 1855)
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë

Emily Brontë (1818 1848)
Remembrance

Rupert Brooke (1887 1915)
The Soldier

Jericho Brown (1976 )
The Tradition

William Browne (c. 1590 1645)
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 1861)
Felicia Hemans
L. E. L. s Last Question
Mother and Poet

Basil Bunting (1900 1985)
from Brigg atts

Robert Burns (1759 1796)
Epitaph for James Smith
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 1824)
Stanzas for Music
Remember thee! Remember thee!
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
Elegy on Thyrza

Christian Campbell (1979 )
Rudical (Derek Bennett, killed by the police)

Thomas Campion (1567 1620)
O Come Quickly!

Thomas Carew (c . 1595 1640)
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul s, Dr John Donne
Epitaph for Maria Wentworth

Ciaran Carson (1948 2019)
In Memory

Elizabeth Carter (1717 1806)
On the Death of Mrs Rowe

Catullus (c . 84 54 BCE)
Elegy on the Sparrow
Catullus 101

Charles Causley (1917 2003)
Eden Rock

C. P. Cavafy (1863 1933)
For Ammonis, Who Died Aged 29 in 610

Jane Cave (1754 1812)
An Elegy on a Maiden Name

Paul Celan (1920 1970)
Deathfugue

Amy Clampitt (1920 1994)
A Procession at Candlemas

John Clare (1793 1864)
The Lament of Swordy Well
I Am

Lucille Clifton (1936 2010)
the lost baby poem

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 1834)
Epitaph

Tony Connor (1930 )
Elegy for Alfred Hubbard

Abraham Cowley (1618 1667)
On the Death of Mr William Hervey

William Cowper (1731 1800)
Epitaph on a Hare
The Poplar Field

Hart Crane (1899 1932)
At Melville s Tomb

Richard Crashaw (1613 1649)
A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife

Countee Cullen (1903 1946)
Colored Blues Singer
Threnody for a Brown Girl

Walter de la Mare (1873&ndas