Poems and Readings for a Funeral

Welcome to our page of Poems and Readings for a Funeral that will capture the emotions of the bereaved and how even in sorrow that we can celebrate the lives of those we have lost. This collection of moving pieces are for you to use FREE for non commercial purpose.May they be of help for quiet moments of reflection and for public readings.

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These are our Poems and Readings for a Funeral

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One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nauticaa-blessing it rather than in love with it
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature-
but a thinking reed. It does not take the universe is enough to kill him. But though the universe could because he knows that he is dying, that the universe has an
advantage of him; the universe knows nothing of this.
Blaise Pascal

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Thanks to the human heart by which we live
Thanks to the tenderness, it's joys and fears.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie to deep for tears.
William Wordsworth

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Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
Hafiz

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They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate;
I think they have no portion in us after
we pass the gate.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses;Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
Ernest Dowson

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God be in my head
and in my understanding,
God be in my eyes
and in my looking,
God be in my mouth
and in my speaking,
God be in my heart
and in my thinking,
God be at mine end
and at my departing.

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Strew on her roses,roses,
and never a spray of yew.
In quiet she reposes;
Ah! would that I did too.

Her mirth the world required;
She bathed it in smiles of glee.
but her heart was tired, tired,
and now they let her be.

Her life was turning, turning,But for peace her soul was yearning,

Her cabined, ample spirit,
it fluttered and failed for breath.
Tonight it doth inherit
The vasty Hall of Death.
Matthew Arnold.

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They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more;shall feed them,and shall lead them unto livingRevelation; 7:16-17

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Stillborn Baby Poem

We held you in our arms
For a short time that is true;
You won our hearts and our love
We will always remember you.

The angels are with you
By your side they will always be;
Your soul flies on and stays with them
And you will always be free.

There are some things you just treasure
A new baby in the fold;
You stayed asleep though here on earth
We're glad we had a hold.
Maggie-May

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