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Jane Kenyon

Jane Kenyon was born on May 23, 1947, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew...
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		Poems About Funerals
		In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away] by Lord Alfred Tennyson

		A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas

		Age and Death by Emma Lazarus

		Because I could not stop for Death (712) by Emily Dickinson

		Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da

		By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) by Gaius Valerius Catullus

		Driven across many nations (101) by Gaius Valerius Catullus

		For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell

		Fugue of Death by Paul Celan

		In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

		Night Funeral in Harlem by Langston Hughes

		O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

		Question by May Swenson

		Song ["When I am dead, my dearest"] by Christina Rossetti

		The Earth Opens and Welcomes You by Abdellatif Laâbi

		The World as Seen Through a Glass of Ice Water by Dobby Gibson

		Untitled [This is what was bequeathed us] by Gregory Orr

What Came to Me
by Jane Kenyon

I took the last dusty piece of china out of the barrel. It was your gravy boat, with a hard, brown drop of gravy still on the porcelain lip. I grieved for you then as I never had before.

From The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth-Century Elegy edited by Lynn Strongin. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.