Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

Priscilla Presley spoke at her daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s funeral in January 2023. (BACKGRID) “The old soul — I have no idea how to put my mother into words. Truth is there and too many.

Perhaps one of the most beloved poems for memorial services, “Death Is Nothing at All” is a funeral poem written from the perspective of the person who has died. It wasn’t originally written ...

It’s there, too, when life is less than rosy: when you’re feeling down, suffering from heartbreak or full of confusion. Even when you’re dealing with an agonizing loss, funeral poems are a ...