Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear at funerals. Not only do funeral poems help people process the loss of a ...

Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100 on Sunday, penned a heartfelt letter to his late wife Rosalynn ahead of her funeral ...

Yellow had alerted us to him, and we took care with leaf and clover to make his bed. The insect’s gold our togetherness, its death from which we fed.

in some of the changes he made to this extract – the magnificent set-piece of Beowulf’s funeral – before the poem was published in its final form.

A touching poem and tribute describing the gentle nature of a young Laois man who died suddenly this week, has been read out by his father at his funeral. John (Jack) Delaney, of Kyledellig, ...

friends and contemporaries gave glowing tributes to retired President Daniel Moi during his funeral service at Kabarak on Wednesday February 12. His grand daughter, Denise Laila recited a poem for ...