Funeral Poems
A collection of funeral poems & short funeral verses
Featured funeral poems
Afterglow
A short funeral poem by Helen Lowrie Marshall about happy memories living on after a loved one has gone.
Beyond the Empty Chair
A short funeral or remembrance poem about finding comfort in happy memories in times of grief and sadness.
I Carry Your Heart
A touching poem for a funeral by American poet E.E. Cummings, about keeping your loved one in your heart after they are gone.
Indian Prayer
A traditional Indian prayer ideal for a funeral service of any religion or no religion. A short funeral poem about grief and loss.
Irish Blessing
A traditional Irish blessing, popular as a poem to read at a funeral, suitable for a religious funeral service for a loved one.
Remember
A funeral poem by famous Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, about remembering a loved one after they are gone.
To Those Whom I Love & Those Who Love Me
Beautiful remembrance poem, ideal for a funeral reading or eulogy. Written from the point of view of the person being laid to rest.
When I’m Gone
A beautiful remembrance poem, ideal for a funeral reading, about treasuring happy memories after a loved one is gone.
All funeral poems
- A Death-Bed
- A Song of Living
- After Their Death
- Afterglow
- Afternoon in February
- All is Well
- All Nature Has a Feeling
- All That Was Her
- All Things Will Die
- An Angel Brushed My Shoulder
- As Long as Hearts Remember
- Beyond the Empty Chair
- But Not Forgotten
- Celebrate
- Child of Mine
- Come to Me When I'm Dying
- Coronach
- Crossing the Bar
- Darest Thou Now O Soul
- Death the Leveller
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
- Do Not Weep For Me
- Elegy
- Elegy on Thyrza
- Fare Thee Well
- Farewell
- Farewell My Friends
- Farewell, Sweet Dust
- Fidele
- Finis
- Footprints on The Sands Of Time
- From ‘The Excursion’
- Funeral Blues
- God Saw You Getting Tired
- Good-bye, My Fancy!
- Goodbye
- Greenwood Cemetery
- Hester
- I Am Standing Upon the Seashore
- I Carry Your Heart
- If I Could
- If I Should Go
- If I Should Go Tomorrow
- In Hearts
- In Memory
- Indian Prayer
- Intimations of Immortality
- Irish Blessing
- It's Strange
- Let Me Go
- Life
- Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore
- Little Gidding (from Four Quartets)
- Love
- Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
- Love Shines Through
- May the Blessing of Light be on You
- Memories
- Memories
- Mother's Love
- My Journey’s Just Begun
- My Mother’s Sleep is Deep
- Near Shady Wall a Rose Once Grew
- No Coward Soul is Mine
- Not, How Did He Die, but How Did He Live?
- O Captain! My Captain!
- Of Joy and Sorrow
- On Death
- On His Own Death
- On Pain
- Our Memories Build a Special Bridge
- Poem of Life
- Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
- Precious Flower
- Precious Memory
- Remember
- Remember Me
- Remember Me
- Remember Me - I Will Live Forever
- Remembrance
- Requiem
- She is Gone (He is Gone)
- Smile because He Lived
- Softly Woo Away Her Breath
- Songs of the Death of Children (Kindertotenlieder)
- The Best and Most Beautiful Things in the World
- The Bluebird
- The Candle
- The Death Bed
- The Last Invocation
- The Lord's my Shepherd - Psalm 23
- The Prophet
- The Sea Spirit
- The Song Of The Soul
- The Star
- The Tombs in Westminster Abbey
- The Triumph of Death
- Then Joy Stepped In
- There Is No Night Without A Dawning
- Time Does Not Bring Relief
- Tis Only We Who Grieve
- To Sleep
- To Those I Love
- To Those Whom I Love & Those Who Love Me
- Turn Again To Life
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Untitled poem on dying
- Untitled Poem To A Lost Love
- Veritas Vincit
- Virtue Immortal
- When I Am Dead, My Dearest
- When I’m Gone
- When We Lose a Loved One
- When We Remember
- You’ve Just Walked on Ahead of Me
- Your Grief For What You've Lost Holds a Mirror