Burns wrote 'On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born in peculiar circumstances of Family-Distress' in response to the death of James Henri (d.1790), the son-in-law of Burns's good friend and ...

Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear at funerals. Not only do funeral poems help people process the loss of a ...

Famous Poems About the Death of a Mother Robert Louis Stevenson ... The poem tells the story of a mother who loves her child no matter what. The poet paints the picture of a mother's love making ...