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 ...

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

D.N. “This Is Not a Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez Adrian Neibauer’s fifth grade students in Colorado have loved this “short and powerful” poem. As not-quite-tweens, Neibauer said his students “are ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Shakespeare does some heavy lifting throughout this 14-line poem, comparing a woman to a summer’s day and concluding that she’s far lovelier. That sentiment makes this one of the best short ...

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 ...

From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

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 ...

Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if customers send them a poem. He decided to test it out and wrote brand-specific short poems for 50 of his ...

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