Death poetry: "Death, be not proud"

'Death, be not proud' / John Donne (1572-1631)

'We are seven' / William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

'No coward soul is mine' / Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

'Good-by' / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

'The charge of the light brigade' / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

'Vigil strange I kept on the field one night' / Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

'Because I could not stop for death' / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

'To an athlete dying young' / A. E. Housman (1859-1936).