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 ...

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.