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Funeral Poems, Readings & Quotes

Funeral readings help to express the feelings we are facing and are unable to put into words, and can be used to celebrate your loved one's life or provide comfort to grieving family and friends.

We have listed a number of traditional and contemporary poems, readings and quotes, and we hope that they provide you with some inspiration and solace.

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General ? Poems & Readings

I thought of You Today

Author Unknown

I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new I thought about you yesterday and days before that too I think of you in silence. I often speak your name All I have are memories and your picture in a frame Your memory is my keepsake with which I'll never part God has you in His keeping I have you in my heart

A million times we`ve wanted you A million times we cried If love could only have saved you you never would have died It broke our hearts to lose you But you didn`t go alone For a part of us went with you the day God called you home

She Is Gone (He Is Gone)

David Harkins

She Is Gone (He Is Gone) You can shed tears that she is gone Or you can smile because she has lived You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left Your heart can be empty because you can't see her Or you can be full of the love that you shared You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday You can remember her and only that she is gone Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on

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Miss Me But Let Me Go

Author Unknown

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 too long And not with your head bowed low Remember the love that we once shared Miss me-but let me go

For this is a journey we all must take And each must go alone It's all a part of the Master's plan A step on the road to home

When you are lonely and sick at heart Go to the friends we know And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds Miss me- but let me go

If Tomorrow Starts Without Me

Shortened version written by David Romano

When tomorrow starts without me and I'm not here to see If the sun should rise and find your eyes filled with tears for me

I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today While thinking of the many things we didn't get to say

I know how much you love me as much as I love you And each time you think of me I know you'll miss me too

When tomorrow starts without me don't think we're far apart For every time you think of me I'm right there in your heart

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Afterglow

Helen Lowrie Marshall

I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done I'd like to leave and echo whispering down the ways Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun Of happy memories that I leave When life is done

Her Journey's Just Begun

E Brenneman

Don't think of her as gone away Her journey's just begun Life holds so many facets This earth is only one

Just think of her as resting From the sorrow and the tears In a place of warmth and comfort Where there are no days and years

Think how she must be wishing That we could know today How nothing but our sadness can really pass away

And think of her as living In the hearts of those she touched For nothing loved is every lost And she was loved so much.

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Inside Our Dreams

Jeanne Willis

Where do people go to when they die? Somewhere down below or in the sky? `I can't be sure,' said Grandad, `but it seems They simply set up home inside our dreams

The way I feel

Author Unknown

They say there is a reason, They say that time will heal, But neither time nor reason, Will change the way I feel,

No-one knows the heartache, That lies behind my smile, No-one knows how many times, I have broken down and cried,

I want to tell you something, So there won't be any doubt, You're so wonderful to think of, But so hard to be without.

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Where do they go to?

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Legacy of Love

Author Unknown

Where do they go to, the people who leave? Are they around us, in the cool evening breeze? Do they still hear us, and watch us each day? I'd like you to think of them with us that way

Where do they go to, when no longer here? I think that they stay with us, calming our fear Loving us always, holding our hands Walking beside us, on grass or on sand

Where do they go to, well it's my belief They watch us and help us to cope with our grief They comfort and stay with us, through each of our days Guiding us always through life's mortal maze

A wife, a mother, a grandma too This is the legacy we have from you You taught us love and how to fight You gave us strength, you gave us might A stronger person would be hard to find And in your heart, you were always kind You fought for us all in one way or another Not just as a wife not just as a mother For all of us you gave your best Now the time has come for you to rest So go in peace, you've earned your sleep Your love in our hearts, we'll eternally keep

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So go and run free

Author Unknown

So go and run free with the angels Dance around the golden clouds For the lord has chosen you to be with him And we should feel nothing but proud Although he has taken you from us And our pain a lifetime will last Your memory will never escape us But make us glad for the time we did have Your face will always be hidden Deep inside our hearts Each precious moment you gave us Shall never, ever depart So go and run free with the angels As they sing so tenderly And please be sure to tell them To take good care of you for me

I'm Free

Author Unknown

Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free, I'm following the path God laid for me I took his hand when I heard his call, I turned my back and left it all I could not stay another day, to laugh, to love, to work, to play Tasks left undone must stay that way, I've found that peace at the end of the day If my parting has left a void, then fill it with remembered joy A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, ah, yes, these things too I will miss Be not burdened with times of sorrow, I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow My Life's been full, I savoured much, good friends, good times, a loved one' touch Perhaps my time seemed all too brief, don't lengthen it now with undue grief Lift up your heart and share with me, God wanted me now, He set me free

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Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

Mary Frye

Epitaph on a Friend

Robert Burns

Where do they go to, the people who leave? Are they around us, in the cool evening breeze? Do they still hear us, and watch us each day? I'd like you to think of them with us that way Where do they go to, awhen no longer here? I think that they stay with us, calming our fear Loving us always, holding our hands Walking beside us, on grass or on sand Where do they go to, well it's my belief They watch us and help us to cope with our grief They comfort and stay with us, through each of our days Guiding us always through life's mortal maze

An honest man here lies at rest The friend of man, the friend of truth The friend of age, and guide of youth Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd Few heads with knowledge so inform'd If there's another world, he lives in bliss If there is none, he made the best of this

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