‘Death’, can be taken to be a central theme in most religions or religious sects around the world and historically it has been studied from different perspectives by different figures. Literature, is one of the fields in which this theme has been drawn on with much frequency as well. As a result, various literary works are at hand which are of different or heterogeneous nature due to the religious outlook they are nourished by or the moment they are penned at; that is the very socio-historical and philosophical-ideological context in which they are produced. To be precise, the present study, putting the theme of “Death” in center, aims at providing a comparative study of two pairs of poems from two different poets of different religious backgrounds and literary traditions: John Donne and Rumi. What the study intends to highlight is the fact that despite their different religious beliefs and outlooks, the two poets have something in common and that is how they try to come up with the anxiety of “Death’ in the poems put into study here: Donne’s Hymn to God and My God, In My sickness; Rumi’s Ghazal 911 and Ghazal 2039.