Funeral Verses & Written Content Poems for Funerals

There's a certain type of quiet In the room wherein you rest A closure of the eyelids and a flutter of the chest …

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 …

Weeping willows formed an honour guard For the cricket ball writ with a noble name A team of ten, which had once been …

Death is too negative for me, So I'll be popping off For a long cup of tea. Do splash out On …

What delightful hosts are they - Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have …

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be …

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep …

I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. …

At that hour when all things have repose, O lonely watcher of the skies, Do you hear the night wind and the sighs …

I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead - . He is just away! With a cheery …

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. …

I'll be your candle on the water My love for you will always burn I know you're lost and drifting But the …

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put …

The sailor cast off the mortal coil As the voyage of a lifetime was hatched And the astral yacht blew off the Beaufort …

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou …

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 …

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 …

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying …

Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. …

She pass'd away like morning dew Before the sun was high; So brief her time, she scarcely knew The meaning of a …

Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with the soft rounded cheeks …

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 …

An honest man here lies at rest, The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age, and guide of youth: …

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 …

When darkness descends and the shadows fall, You're my shining beacon, illuminating the way. Love glows from your spirit even after you've gone; …

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 …

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. …

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 …

The rays of light filtered through The sentinels of trees this morning. I sat in the garden and contemplated. The serenity and …

The first candle represents our grief. The pain of losing you is intense It reminds us of the depth of our love for …

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 …

The musical notes stood in lines Discordant in their grief Before regaining their composure As black tears in embossed relief …

Go gently into the heavenly skies; Dance freely and spread your light. Warm me with the embrace of your …

God saw you getting tired, And a cure was not to be So he put His arms around you And He whispered, …

God looked around his garden- And found an empty place, He then looked down upon the earth- And saw your tired face. …

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Goodnight; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours, While sea abides, and land, And earth’s foundations stand, and heaven …

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 …

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can …

I am not gone, while you cry with me I am not gone, while you smile with me I am not gone, while …

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 …

I will arise and go now to the sea
to watch your small boat slip into the sun.
The deepening wave that reaches out to me...

Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free, I'm following the path God laid for me. I took his hand when I heard …

Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes …

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 …

If tears could build a stairway And memories were a lane I would walk right up to heaven And bring you back …

I envy not in any moods, The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the …

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 …

When I come to the end of the road And the sun has set for me I want no rites in a gloom …

Life, believe, is not a dream So dark as sages say; Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day. Sometimes there are clouds …

I want fireworks at my funeral To brighten up your eyes I want clowns at my funeral To return all your smiles …

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 …

Now I am gone, now I am lost to you Find me again just as you used to do: In the …

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory - Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. …

Don't think of me as gone away my journey's just begun, …

Synapses, lightening forks Neural nets cast aglow My being is no longer earthed As across space I flow Eternally …

I give you this one thought to keep - I am with you still, I do not sleep. I am a …

Not how did he die, but how did he live? Not what did he gain, but what did he give? These are the …

O May I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence: live …

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 …

It's my turn now to be planted Put out to seed again While the fruits of my earthly labours Flourish in the …

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor …

To the living, I am gone, To the sorrowful, I wil never return, To the angry, I was cheated, But to the …

To laugh, is to risk appearing the fool. To weep, is to risk being called sentimental. To reach out to another, is to risk involvement. …

Seabirds dance to Neptune's beat, and Like moths around a flame Welcome back the fishing fleet Back safe from the catching game …

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of …

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet …

So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon …

The snow melts on the mountain And the water runs down to the spring, And the spring in a turbulent fountain, With …

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or …

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 I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the …

I have always loved the moon but now she and I are locked in an eternal pact of hope   …

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The …

I Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great …

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 …

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 …

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 …

"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 …

On a day of rain when you sit indoors By the fire with a book, as I loved to do, And the storm …

Time is too slow for those who Wait, Too swift for those who Fear, Too long for those who Grieve, Too short for those who …

The sadness of the present days Is locked and set in time, And moving to the future Is a slow and painful climb. But …

They do not leave, they are not gone They look upon us still They walk among the valleys now They stride upon the hill. …

“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, …

O soft embalmer of the still midnight, Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, Enshaded in …

When my heart no longer beats cast me into the ocean, my love   throw my …

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 …

After this day has darkened and gone And I wake to the rest of my life I shall think of the times and …

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. …

Were the world to end tomorrow, would we plant a tree today? Would we till the soil of loving, kneel to work …

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 …

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 …

Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the …

How do I live without you? oh, my love, I do not You are with me from the moment …

You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes …

All around us your presence is palpable, Ever shining a bright ray of light. For love radiates from your …