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.
All Is Well
A comforting and uplifting funeral poem by Oxford professor Henry Scott Holland. A poem about love living on after death.
Farewell My Friends
Beautiful funeral poem by Rabindranath Tagore, written from the perspective of someone at the end of their life.
Let Me Go
A short but uplifting funeral poem by famous Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, about saying goodbye to a loved one.
My Journey’s Just Begun
A short funeral poem by Ellen Brenneman. An uplifting funeral reading about finding peace in the afterlife and saying goodbye to loved ones.
She Is Gone (He Is Gone)
Popular funeral poem based on a short verse by David Harkins. An uplifting poem about being grateful for a loved one’s life.
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
- 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?
- 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)
- 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