This chapter discusses the topic of grief as an emotional process in Cotton Famine poetry, noting that the poetic form associated with grief, elegy, is largely absent due to the mostly unidentified subjects who are mourned in the corpus. Because of the very different treatments of the subjects, grief for adult and child victims of poverty are discussed separately. After an introduction to the chapter, the first section, “The Monster Grief,” titled after a quotation from a poem discussed, examines the topics of grief and mourning of adult victims in Cotton Famine poetry. The second section, also sourced from a poetry quotation, is entitled “Only a Baby’s Grave.” Here, grief and mourning of child and infant victims is discussed. The third section is entitled “The Personification of Death” and it discusses various iterations of the poetic representation of death as a figure with agency or even emotion, noting that, when gendered, death is always male.