Robert Blair
The Grave (poetry) 1743

William Cullen Bryant
“Thanatopsis” (poetry) 1817

Philip Freneau
“The House of Night” (poetry) 1779
“The Indian Burying Ground” (poetry) 1787

Thomas Gray
“Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes” (poetry) 1748
“An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (poetry) 1751

Thomas Parnell
“A Hymn to Contentment” (poetry) 1714
“Night-Piece on Death” (poetry) 1722

Thomas Warton
“The Pleasures of Melancholy” (poetry) 1747

Edward Young
Night Thoughts (poetry) 1742-45