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Poems About Funerals
"To Sleep I give my powers away" from In Memoriam
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
by Dylan Thomas
Because I could not stop for Death (712)
by Emily Dickinson
Bomb Crater Sky
by Lam Thi My Da
For the Union Dead
by Robert Lowell
Fugue of Death
by Paul Celan
O Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman
Question
by May Swenson
What Came to Me
by Jane Kenyon
Related Prose
Poetic Form: Rondeau
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In Flanders Fields  
by John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row, 
That mark our place, and in the sky, 
The larks, still bravely singing, fly, 
Scarce heard amid the guns below. 

We are the dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields. 

Take up our quarrel with the foe! 
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high! 
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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