- Minnie Louise Haskins
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
And … Read More
- Fred Kaan (1929-2009)
Were the world to end tomorrow,
would we plant a tree today?
Would we till the soil of loving,
kneel to work and rise to pray?
Dare we try … Read More
- Lord Byron
So, we’ll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
For the sword … Read More
- Michael Ashby
The musical notes stood in lines
Discordant in their grief
Before regaining their composure
As black tears in embossed relief
The instruments played this salutation
To a musician of note … Read More
- Amelia Josephine Burr
Because I have loved life,
I shall have no sorrow to die.
I have sent up my gladness on wings,
to be lost in the blue of the … Read More
- William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, … Read More
- Margaret Mead
To the living, I am gone,
To the sorrowful, I wil never return,
To the angry, I was cheated,
But to the happy, I am at peace,
And to … Read More
- James Whitcomb Riley
What delightful hosts are they –
Life and Love!
Lingeringly I turn away,
This late hour, yet glad enough
They have not withheld from me
Their high hospitality.
So, with face … Read More
- Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich … Read More
- Michael Ashby
I’ve always gone with the roll of the dice
But now my number’s up
And since I’m the one down below
There must be six up top
I always … Read More
- Ellen Brenneman
Don’t think of him as gone away
his journey’s just begun,
life holds so many facets
this earth is only one.
Just think of him as resting
from the sorrows … Read More
- Thomas Gray
Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
A child, the darling of his parents’ eyes:
A gentler lamb ne’er sported on the plain,
A fairer flower will … Read More
- Michael Ashby
Synapses, lightening forks
Neural nets cast aglow
My being is no longer earthed
As across space I flow
Eternally charged with immortal life
I feel the pull of people past
My … Read More
- Michael Ashby
Seabirds dance to Neptune’s beat, and
Like moths around a flame
Welcome back the fishing fleet
Back safe from the catching game
In and out, to and fro
Rise and … Read More
- Anonymous
The first candle represents our grief.
The pain of losing you is intense
It reminds us of the depth of our love for you.
The second candle represents … Read More
- Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints … Read More
- William Penn
“They that love beyond the world, cannot be separated.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the … Read More
- John Gillespie Magee
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — … Read More
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I envy not in any moods,
The captive void of noble rage,
The linnet born within the cage,
That never knew the summer woods:
I envy not the beast … Read More
- James Joyce
At that hour when all things have repose,
O lonely watcher of the skies,
Do you hear the night wind and the sighs
Of harps playing unto Love … Read More
- Michael Ashby
I want fireworks at my funeral
To brighten up your eyes
I want clowns at my funeral
To return all your smiles
I want dancing at my funeral
To help … Read More
- Michael Ashby
Death is too negative for me,
So I’ll be popping off
For a long cup of tea.
Do splash out
On two bags in the pot,
And for my god’s … Read More
- Kahlil Gibran
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes … Read More
- Rosie Waspe
There’s a certain type of quiet
In the room wherein you rest
A closure of the eyelids and a flutter of the chest
The days are slowly fading … Read More
- William Shakespeare
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer … Read More
- Frances & Kathleen Ceolho
God saw you getting tired,
And a cure was not to be
So he put His arms around you
And He whispered, ‘Come to me’.
With tearful eyes we … Read More
- Rita Moran
Please, don’t ask me if I’m over it yet.
I’ll never be over it.
Please, don’t tell me she’s in a better place.
She isn’t with me.
Please, don’t … Read More
- Bruce Wilmer
The sadness of the present days
Is locked and set in time,
And moving to the future
Is a slow and painful climb.
But all the feelings that are … Read More
- Anonymous
There is a plan far greater than the plan you know;
There is a landscape broader than the one you see.
There is a haven where storm–tossed … Read More
- Mary Lee Hall
If I should die and leave you here awhile,
be not like others, sore undone, who keep
long vigils by the silent dust, and weep.
For my sake, … Read More
- Lisa Kitson
Now I am gone, now I am lost to you
Find me again just as you used to do:
In the house – when you go from … Read More
- William Shakespeare
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old … Read More
- W R Hearst
The snow melts on the mountain
And the water runs down to the spring,
And the spring in a turbulent fountain,
With a song of youth to sing,
Runs … Read More
- Nicholas Evans
If I be the first of us to die,
Let grief not blacken long your sky.
Be bold yet modest in your grieving.
There is a change but … Read More
- D H Lawrence
I
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion.
The apples falling like great drops of dew
to bruise themselves an exit from … Read More
- Anonymous
I should like to send you a sunbeam,
or the twinkle of some bright star,
or a tiny piece of the downy fleece
that clings to a cloud … Read More
- Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, He knew no haste,
And I had … Read More
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide … Read More
- Michael Ashby
I am not gone, while you cry with me
I am not gone, while you smile with me
I am not gone, while you remember with me
I … Read More
- Anonymous
You can shed tears that she is gone
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she’ll come back
or … Read More
- Summer Sandercox
Not how did he die, but how did he live?
Not what did he gain, but what did he give?
These are the units to measure the … Read More
- Edgar Albert Guest
I will lend you, for a little time,
A child of mine, He said.
For you to love the while he lives,
And mourn for when he’s dead.
It … Read More
- Michael Ashby
The sailor cast off the mortal coil
As the voyage of a lifetime was hatched
And the astral yacht blew off the Beaufort scale
At a speed no … Read More
- Robert Burns
An honest man here lies at rest,
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with … Read More
- Hartley Coleridge
She pass’d away like morning dew
Before the sun was high;
So brief her time, she scarcely knew
The meaning of a sigh.
As round the rose its soft … Read More
- Walter Rinder
The rays of light filtered through
The sentinels of trees this morning.
I sat in the garden and contemplated.
The serenity and beauty
Of my feelings and surroundings
Completely captivated … Read More
- James Tipp
Life is always ahead, exciting and full of adventure.
What has been lives on in the memories
of those with whom we have shared our love.
Memories that … Read More
- Pete’s Dragon, Walt Disney
I’ll be your candle on the water
My love for you will always burn
I know you’re lost and drifting
But the clouds are lifting
Don’t give up, you … Read More
- Anonymous
When I must leave you for a while
Please do not grieve and shed wild tears
And hug your sorrow to you through the years
But start out … Read More
- Sara Teasdale
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
And take these lanes to find the sea, … Read More
- Anonymous
I give you this one thought to keep –
I am with you still, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the … Read More
- Asa James
On a day of rain when you sit indoors
By the fire with a book, as I loved to do,
And the storm wind roars
Think of me … Read More
- Michael Ashby
It’s my turn now to be planted
Put out to seed again
While the fruits of my earthly labours
Flourish in the sun and rain
It’s a wonderful day … Read More
- Lucretius
Departed comrade! Thou, redeemed from pain
Shall sleep the sleep that kings desire in vain:
Not thine the sense of loss
But lo, for us the void
That never … Read More
- Anonymous
God looked around his garden-
And found an empty place,
He then looked down upon the earth-
And saw your tired face.
He put his arms around you-
And lifted … Read More
- William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath … Read More
- Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus … Read More
- Anonymous
If tears could build a stairway
And memories were a lane
I would walk right up to heaven
And bring you back again
No farewell words were spoken
No time … Read More
- E E Cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my … Read More
- Sir Walter Raleigh
Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with earth and dust;
Who in the dark … Read More
- Henry van Dyke
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails
to the morning breeze and
starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object … Read More
- Isla Paschal Richardson
If I should ever leave you whom I love
To go along the Silent Way,
Grieve not,
Nor speak of me with tears,
But laugh and talk of me … Read More
- George Elliot
O May I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence: live
In pulses stirr’d to generosity,
In deeds … Read More
- Rabindranath Tagore
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
Save the pain I’ll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love … Read More
- Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the … Read More
- John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor … Read More
- Christina Rossetti
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With … Read More
- Anne Bradstreet
“If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, … Read More
- W H Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, … Read More
- John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and … Read More
- Michael Ashby
Weeping willows formed an honour guard
For the cricket ball writ with a noble name
A team of ten, which had once been eleven
Would never be the … Read More
- Anonymous
They do not leave, they are not gone
They look upon us still
They walk among the valleys now
They stride upon the hill.
Their smile is in the … Read More
- Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise … Read More
- Henry Scott Holland
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, … Read More
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out … Read More
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory – Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are … Read More
- Anonymous
Feel no guilt in laughter,
He’d know how much you care.
Feel no sorrow in a smile
That he’s not here to share.
You cannot grieve forever;
He would not … Read More
- Clive Saffron
All around us your presence is palpable,
Ever shining a bright ray of light.
For love radiates from your soul endlessly;
In its warmth I bask by day … Read More