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Mourning

Venus mourning Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens
Poetry

A Woman and Her Dead Husband

Ah stern cold man,
How can you lie so relentless hard
While I wash you…
By D. H. Lawrence
A painting in the style of Vincent Van Gogh depicting a whale hanging from ropes and pulleys on the side of a ship at night.
Prose

The Funeral

“Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!” The vast tackles have now done…
By Herman Melville
Poetry

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a…
By W. H. Auden
Poetry

Beyond the Stars

Three days I heard them grieve when I lay dead,
(It was so strange to…
By Charles Hanson Towne

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