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May 2024
15m 52s

Poems About Death

Bloody FM
About this episode

This was originally uploaded as a video on my YouTube channel, but I thought it might be nice for some to have the audio. I love these poems dearly, and I hope you will too.

You can find the original video here: Death Poetry to Soothe Your Soul

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

Immortality (Do Not Stand By My Grave and Weep) by Clare Harner

If Tomorrow Starts Without Me by David Romano

The Dance of Death by Charles Baudelaire

Death Be Not Proud by John Donne

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden

Oh Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman


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Music by Epidemic Sound

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