Funeral Poems
Poems can provide words of comfort and reflection. There are many inspiring funeral poems, from the melancholic and nostalgic to the uplifting and sometimes gently humorous. Finding the right one can seem like a challenge. To help, we have curated a wide selection of bereavement poems for you to browse.
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A Certain Type of Quiet
Rosie Waspe
There's a certain type of quiet
In the room wherein you rest
A Child of Mine
Edgar Albert Guest
I will lend you, for a little time,
A child of mine, He said.
For you...
A Cricketer's Last Boundary
Michael Ashby
Weeping willows formed an honour guard
For the cricket ball writ with a noble name
A team of ten...
A Long Cup of Tea
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 sake
Keep the water hot
Please...
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A Parting Guest
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...
A Song of Living
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 sky.
I have run and...
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into...
At That Hour
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 to unclose
The...
Away
James Whitcomb Riley
I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead- . He is just away!
With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand
He has wandered into an unknown...
Because I could not stop for death
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage...
Candle on the Water
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 have...
Crossing the Bar
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 as moving seems...
b - d
Cruising the Supernova
Michael Ashby
The sailor cast off the mortal coil
As the voyage of a lifetime was...
Death be not proud
John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and...
Death is Nothing at All (all is well)
Henry Scott Holland
Death is nothing at all. It does not count.
I have only slipped away...
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds...
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave...
Early Death
Hartley Coleridge
She pass'd away like morning dew
Before the sun was high;
So brief her time, she...
Epitaph on a Friend
Robert Burns
An honest man here lies at rest,
The friend of man,
The friend of truth...
Epitaph on a child
Thomas Gray
Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
A child, the darling of his...
Even Such is Time
Sir Walter Raleigh
Even such is time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And...
e - f
Family O'Mine
Anonymous
I should like to send you a sunbeam,
or the twinkle of some bright star,
or a tiny...
Farewell My Friends
Rabindranath Tagore
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets...
Feel no guilt in laughter
Anonymous
Feel no guilt in laughter,
he’d know how much you care.
Feel no sorrow in a smile...
Finding You in Beauty
Walter Rinder
The rays of light filtered through
The sentinels of trees this morning.
I sat...
Funeral blues
W H Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from...
God Saw You Getting Tired
Frances & Kathleen Ceolho
God saw you getting tired,
And a cure was not to be
So he put His arms around you
And...
Goodnight
A E Housman
Goodnight; ensured release,
Imperishable peace,
Have these for yours,
While sea...
High Flight
John Gillespie Magee
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on...
g - i
His journey's just begun
Ellen Brenneman
Don't think of him as gone away
his journey's just begun,
life holds...
How Do I Love Thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the...
I Am Not Gone
Michael Ashby
I am not gone, while you cry with me
I am not gone, while you smile...
I carry your heart with me
E E Cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it...
If Death is Kind
Sara Teasdale
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
We will come back to earth...
If I Be the First of Us to Die
Nicholas Evans
If I be the first of us to die,
Let grief not blacken long your sky.
Be...
If tears could build a stairway
Anonymous
If tears could build a stairway
And memories were a lane
I would walk right up to...
In Memoriam A H H (Part XXVII)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I envy not in any moods,
The captive void of noble rage,
The linnet born...
Music, when soft voices die
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory -
Odours, when sweet violets...
My Light Will Shine Forever
Michael Ashby
Synapses, lightening forks
Neural nets cast aglow
My being is no longer...
Native American Poem
Anonymous
I give you this one thought to keep.
I am with you still. I do...
Not, how did he die, but how did he live?
Summer Sandercox
Not, how did he die, but how did he live?...
m - r
O May I Join the Choir Invisible
George Elliot
O May I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who...
One Last Flutter
Michael Ashby
I've always gone with the roll of the dice
But now my number's up
And since I'm...
Put Out to Seed Again
Michael Ashby
It's my turn now to be planted
Put out to seed again
While the fruits...
Salcombe's Estuary Orchestra
Michael Ashby
Seabirds dance to Neptune's beat, and
Like moths around a flame
Welcome back the...
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and...
She Walks in Beauty
Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry...
So, We'll Go No More A Roving
Lord Byron
So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still...
Song of the River
W R Hearst
The snow melts on the mountain
And the water runs down to the spring, And...
Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not...
The Gate of the Year
Minnie Louise Haskins
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give ...
The Prophet, "You would know the secret of death"
Kahlil Gibran
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find...
s - w
The Ship of Death
D H Lawrence
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey...
The Summer Day
Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who m...
They That Love Beyond the World
William Penn
"They that love beyond the world, cannot be separated.
Death...
Think of Me Then
Asa James
On a day of rain when you site indoors
By the fire with a book, as I loved...
Time Is
Henry Van Dyke
Time is too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear...
Time will ease the hurt
Bruce Wilmer
The sadness of the present days
Is locked and set in time,
And ...
Tis Only We Who Grieve
Anonymous
Tis only we who grieve
They do not leave
They are not gone
They look...
To My Dear Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet
“If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were...
Tomorrows
Simon Bridges
After this day has darkened and gone
And I wake to the rest of my life
I...
Turn again to life
Mary Lee Hall
If I should die and leave you here awhile,
be not like others, sore undone,...
Were the World to End Tomorrow (a hymn on not giving up)
Fred Kaan (1929-2009)
Were the world to end tomorrow,
would we plant a tree today?...
When I am Dead, My Dearest
Christina Rossetti
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant...
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
William Shakespeare
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when...
You can shed tears that she is gone
Anonymous
You can shed tears that she is gone
or you can smile because she has...