Poem for Funeral
Poems for Funeral
"Life is a journey.
Death is the continuation of the journey.
Heaven is a temporary rest.
For the commencement and fulfilment
Of a new life, a new hope
And a new promise"
These are some of the best poems suitable for funerals.
Selected Poems
- Short Poems and Readings
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Mary Fyre
- Remember Me - Christina Rossetti
- A Thing of Beauty - John Keats
- Heaven - Haven - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- No Longer Mourn for me - William Shakespeare
- If Death is Kind - Sara Teasdale
- Because I could not stop for Death - Emily Dickinson
- Footprints in the Sand - Anon
- In Memory by Joyce Kilmer
- Funeral Poems at Amazon
- Poetry at Amazon
Related Poems
Other Funeral Poems
Remember Me
To the Living, I am gone,
To the sorrowful, I will never return;
To the angry, I was cheated.
But to the happy, I am at peace.
To the faithful, I have never left.
Talk to me, and I will hear,
your prayers, they comfort me,
your laughter makes me laugh,
but don't weep for me as I have my reward,
I am with the Father and will never let me perish,
The Lord comforts me, and longs to comfort you.
So be happy my family and don't despair,
I am in good hands, waiting for the day when
the Lord calls you to come home.
- Anon
Sweet Silent Thought
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 woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
—William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30
Selected Links
(1) Is Death the End? Sri Chinmoy
- Photo by Richard Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries