By Subject of Literary Work - Death or dying
- Ancestral Graves, Kahuku
- And Death Shall Have No Dominion
- The Angel of History
- Angels in America
- Angle of Geese
- Anil's Ghost
- Animula
- Annabel Lee
- Anniversaries
- Another Country
- Another Life
- Another World
- The Anti-Lazarus
- Appalachia
- Apparently with no surprise
- The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor
- Arabesque—The Mouse
- Arabian Jazz
- Ariel
- Ariel
- Arms and the Boy
- As Birds Bring Forth the Sun
- As I Lay Dying
- As the Dead Prey upon Us
- The Ash
- The Assassins
- Assorted Fire Events
- At Melville's Tomb
- At the Back of the North Wind
- At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
- At Weddings and Wakes
- Atlantis
- The Atlas
- An Atlas of the Difficult World
- August Moon
- Auto Wreck
- The Autopsy
- Autumn Day
- Autumn Song
- The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World
- The Awful Rowing Toward God
- The Azure
- Babii Yar
- Babylon Revisited
- The Babysitter
- Back to Barbary Lane
- Bag of Bones
- The Ballad of Peckham Rye
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Bambi
