What is a good poem for a funeral?? Funeral Poems for your Loved One provide you with the chance to express your loss. Memorials can be planned with readings from favorite poets and writers, with favorite music, with personal anecdotes told by friends and families, with family photos and other personal touches. Anything is “ok” when you are commemorating a life well-lived. Finding the perfect funeral poem can be challenging. You wish to speak from your heart and express your love and hopefulness at the same time.
Inspiring funeral poems describe how lucky we feel to have had our lived one in our lives, even if it was only for a little while. Likewise, the beautiful memories we hold on to far outweigh the pain of his or her passing. We’ve collected a number of Poems for Funerals and Memorial Services which are Heartfelt and Loving for use on your celebration of life cards. Likewise, feel free to visit our collection of funeral tribute cards to see how the poems can be used. We also offer Funeral Mass Cards with poetry options as well- with beautiful funeral poems. And our Pinterest Boards have many ideas for using creative poems to celebrate your loved one.
What is a good poem for a funeral?
Collected Poems for a Memorial Service, Mass Cards or Guest books which are beautiful sentiments
Idyll
By Siegfried Sassoon
In the grey summer garden I shall find you
With day-break and the morning hills behind you.
There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings;
And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings.
Not from the past you’ll come, but from that deep
Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep:
And I shall know the sense of life re-born
From dreams into the mystery of morn
Where gloom and brightness meet. And standing there
Till that calm song is done, at last we’ll share
The league-spread, quiring symphonies that are
Joy in the world, and peace, and dawn’s one star.
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The Journey of My Life
By 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 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 every turning of my life I came across good friends,
friends who stood by me
even when time raced by me.
Farewell, farewell my friend.
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.
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Peace, My Heart
By Rabindranath Tagore
Peace, my heart, let the time for
the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain
into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end
in the folding of the wings over the
nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be
gentle like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a
moment, and say your last words in
silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp
to light you on your way.
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What is a good poem for a funeral?
More beautiful sentiments….
There Is No Night
By Helen Steiner Rice
There is no night without a dawning
No winter without a spring
And beyond the dark horizon
Our hearts will once more sing ….
For those who leave us for a while
Have only gone away
Out of a restless, care worn world
Into a brighter day
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You’ve Just Walked on Ahead of Me
By Joyce Grenfell
And I’ve got to understand
You must release the ones you love
And let go of their hand.
I try and cope the best I can
But I’m missing you so much
If I could only see you
And once more feel your touch.
Yes, you’ve just walked on ahead of me
Don’t worry I’ll be fine
But now and then I swear I feel
Your hand slip into mine.
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How Did They Live?
By 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 worth
Of a man as a man, regardless of birth.
Not, what was his church, nor what was his creed?
But had he befriended those really in need?
Was he ever ready, with word of good cheer,
To bring back a smile, to banish a tear?
Not what did the sketch in the newspaper say,
But how many were sorry when he passed away.
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What is a good poem for a funeral?
Celebrate your loved one with more beautiful poems….
If I Should Go Tomorrow
By Anonymous
If I should go tomorrow
It would never be goodbye,
For I have left my heart with you,
So don’t you ever cry.
The love that’s deep within me,
Shall reach you from the stars,
You’ll feel it from the heavens,
And it will heal the scars.
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Because I Loved You So
By Anonymous
Time will not dim the face I love,
The voice I heard each day,
The many things you did for me,
In your own special way.
All my life I’ll miss you,
As the years come and go,
But in my heart I’ll keep you,
Because I love you so.
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I’m There Inside Your Heart
By Unknown
And though we seem far apart
I’m closer than I ever was…
I’m there inside your heartI’m with you when you grieve each day
And when the sun shines bright
I’m there to share the sunsets, too…
I’m with you every nightI’m with you when the times are good,
To share a laugh or two,
And if a tear should start to fall…
I’ll still be there for you.And when the day arrives
That we no longer are apart
I’ll smile and hold you close to me…
Forever in my heart.
We hope you have enjoyed this collection of Poems for Funerals and Memorial Services gathered to assist you. They also work well on tribute cards and guest books.
