Funeral Poems to Say Goodbye to a Loved One. Here is a list of beautiful and comforting poems and verses for funerals and memorial services. We have included poems which are uplifting and non religious in this post. Perhaps you are struggling to find the right words for a memorial reading or a condolence card. We hope you will find the perfect funeral poem here. You can add the Funeral Poems to Say Goodbye to a Loved One to mass cards, funeral guest books, celebration of life memorial programs as well as so many other places.
Funeral Poems to Say Goodbye to a Loved One
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When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes
When I die I want your hands on my eyes:
I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands
to pass their freshness over me one more time
to feel the smoothness that changed my destiny.
I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep,
I also want for your ears to go on hearing the wind,
for you to smell the sea that we loved together
and for you to go on walking the sand where we walked.
As well, I want for what I love to go on living
and as for you I loved you and sang you above everything,
for that, go on flowering, flowery one,
So that you reach all that my love orders for you,
That my shadow passes through your hair,
And that they know by this the reason for my song.
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Remember
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 I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann’d:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
By Christina Rossetti
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Farewell My Friends
It was beautiful As long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets Whatsoever said
The pain I’ll leave behind.
Those dear hearts Who love and care…
And the strings pulling At the heart and soul…
The strong arms That held me up
When my own strength Let me down.
At the turning of my life I came across
Good friends, Friends who stood by me
Even when time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell My friends
I smile and Bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears For I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad Do think of me
For that’s what I’ll like When you live in the hearts
Of those you love Remember then
You never die.
by Rabindranath Tagore
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
By Robert Frost
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Funeral Poems to Say Goodbye to a Loved One
Here are some more Funeral Poems to Say Goodbye to a loved one which also can be used for a goodbye at a funeral, celebration of life or memorial service.
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Let Me Go
When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me I want no rites in a gloom filled room
Why cry for a soul set free?
Miss me a little, but not for long
And not with your head bowed low
Remember the love that once we shared
Miss me, but let me go.
For this is a journey we all must take And each must go alone.
It’s all part of the master plan
A step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick at heart Go to the friends we know.
Laugh at all the things we used to do
Miss me, but let me go
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Look for me in Rainbows
Time for me to go now, I won’t say goodbye;
Look for me in rainbows, way up in the sky.
In the morning sunrise when all the world is new,
Just look for me and love me, as you know I loved you.
Time for me to leave you, I won’t say goodbye;
Look for me in rainbows, high up in the sky.
In the evening sunset, when all the world is through,
Just look for me and love me, and I’ll be close to you.
It won’t be forever, the day will come and then
My loving arms will hold you, when we meet again.
Time for us to part now, we also won’t say goodbye;
Look for me in rainbows, shining in the sky.
Every waking moment, and all your whole life through
Just look for me and love me, as you know I loved you.
Just wish me to be near you, And therefore, I’ll be there with you.
Vicki Brown
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