All the poems you need to say goodbye / edited by Don Paterson.

Passing : Walt Whitman / To one shortly to die -- Douglas Dunn / France -- Robert Herrick / To his dying brother, Master William Herrick -- Tu Mu / Given in farewell -- Ishakawa Takuboku / Carrying mother on my back -- Adelaide Crapsey / Triad -- Emily Dickinson / Because I could not stop for death -- Seamus Heaney / from Clearances -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Crossing the bar -- R.S. Thomas / Good -- Giacomo Leopardi / To himself -- Antonio Porchia / Infancy is what is eternal -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti / My sister's sleep -- Wilfred Owen / Futility -- Ian Duhig / Viaduct love suicide -- Thomas Hood / Death-bed -- Christina Rossetti / Why did baby die -- W.B. Yeats / Cold heaven -- A.E. Houseman / Along the field as we came by -- William Wordsworth / Slumber did my spirit seal -- Gerard Manley Hopkins / Heaven haven -- Parting : Rainer Maria Rilke / from Sonnets to Orpheus -- Catherine Dyer / Epitaph on monument erected in 1641 -- Henry Kinig, Bishop of Chichester / An enquiry into his matchless, never to be forgotten friend -- William Cowper / To Delia : on her endeavouting to conceal her grief at parting -- Kakinonoto Hitomaro / On leaving his wife -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson / from In memoriam A.H.H., VII -- Sir Thomas Wyatt / And wilt thou leave me thus -- W.B. Yeats / He hears the cry of the sedge -- John Dryden / To the memory of Mr Oldham -- Ben Jonson / On my first son -- Sappho -- Li Yu -- Grieving : Alfred, Lord Tennyson / from in Memoriam A.H.H., II -- D.H. Lawrence / Sorrow -- Elizabeth Barret Browning / Grief -- W.H. Auden / Funeral blues -- Tess Gallagher / Yes -- Thomas Gray / On the death of Richard West -- A.E. Houseman / Bring, in this timeless grave to throw -- Hugh MacDiarmid / Empty vessell -- Gerald Manly Hopkins / No worst, there is none -- Kakinonoto Hitomaro / I love her like the leaves -- James Thompson / Striving to sing glad songs, I but attain -- Tajihi / Poet laments his wife -- Doin Hoshi / Though in great distress -- Fujiwara Shunzei / In autumn, at a temple near his wife's grave -- Chia Tao / Weeping for the Zen Master Po-Yen -- Oercy Bysshe Shelley / Bereavemnet -- William Wordsworth / She dwelt among the untrodden ways -- John Milton / On his deceased wife -- Longing : Ise / Even for a moment -- Empress Iwa No Himne / Longing for the Emperor -- A.E. Housman / With rue my heart is laden -- Court Lady / On the death of the Emperor Tenji -- Kate Clanchy / Miscarriage, midwinter -- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Widow bird sate mourning for her love -- Lady Heguri / Thousand years you said -- Sappho / Fragment -- Yamonoue / Longing for his son Furuhi -- Antonio Machado / Dream -- Anon / I can take no path -- Rememberance : Tony Harrison / Timer -- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Music -- Antonio Machado / Eyes -- Charles causley / To my father -- Francis Quarles / David's epitaph on Jonathan -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson / from In Memoriam -- Tony harrison / from Long distance -- William Wordsworth / Three years she grew in sun & shower -- Katherine Mansfield / To L.H.B. (1894-1915) -- John Beaumont / To my dear son, Gervase Beaumont -- Robert Burns / Epitaph on a friend -- Billy Collins / No time -- Michael Donaghy / Not knowing the words -- Robert Herrick / Epitaph upon a child that died -- John Oldham / Quiet soul -- Christina Rossetti / Song -- One sea-side grave -- Remember -- Walt Whitman / from When lilac's last in the doorway bloomed -- Comfort : Michael Longley / Homecoming -- Gon-Chunagon Masafusa / On that faraway mountain -- Emily Dickinson / That it will never come again -- Thomas Hardy / Rain on a grave -- Mary Fry / Do not stand at my grave and weep -- Emily Dickinson / Twas my one glory -- Michael Donaghy / Haunts -- Rudyard Kipling / Widower -- Robert Louis Stevenson / Requiem -- Rumi / Why hold on to just one life -- Douglas Dunn / Anniversaries -- John Donne / Holy sonnet X : Death, be not proud -- Henry Vaughan / They are all gone into the world of light -- Rainer Maria Rilke / Epitaph -- Theodore Roethke / She -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Consolation.

Designed for those in need of poetic solace, and a gift book for the recently bereaved, it is also intended as a book to read from at memorial ceremonies, when judging the tone and hitting the right note is everything poems, drawn from many different ages and cultures, remind us that the experience of parting is a timelessly human one: however alone the loss of a loved one leaves us, our mourning is also something that deeply unites us; these poems of parting and passing, of sorrow and healing, will find a deep echo within those who find themselves dealing with grief or bereavement. Whatever our loss, it is assuaged in finding a voice - and whether that voice is one of private remembrance or public memorial, All the Poems You Need to Say Goodbye will help you towards it.