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Post Mortem  (by: William Shakespeare (1546 - 1616))
If thou survive my well-contented day
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,

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Proud Maisie  (by: Sir W. Scott)
Proud Maisie is in the wood,
Walking so early;
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Reality  (by: Calvin Hart)
Open your eyes and look around,
Take note of all that you see,
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Reaper And The Flowers, The  (by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882))
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
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Remembrance  (by: William Shakespeare (1546 - 1616))
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste;
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Death Poems Books

Remorse  (by: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822))
Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon,
Rapid clouds have drunk the last pale beam of even...
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Requiescat  (by: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888))
Strew on her roses, roses,
And never a spray of yew!
In quiet she reposes;
Ah, would that I did too!
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Resurrection  (by: Hermann Hagedorn)
Not long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain.
We fell, we lay, we slumbered, we took rest,
With the wild nerves quiet at last, and the vexed brain
Cleared of the wingèd nightmares, and the breast
Freed of the heavy dreams of hearts afar.
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Rupert Brooke In Memoriam  (by: Moray Dalton)
I never knew you save as all men know
Twitter of mating birds, flutter of wings
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Sands of Dee, The  (by: Charles Kingsley (1819-1875))
'O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
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