Funeral Poems, Readings & Quotes - Your Life Assist
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au 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. www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 1
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au General – Poems & Readings I thought of You Today She Is Gone (He Is Gone) Author Unknown David Harkins I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new She Is Gone (He Is Gone) I thought about you yesterday and days before that too You can shed tears that she is gone I think of you in silence. I often speak your name Or you can smile because she has lived All I have are memories and your picture in a frame You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back Your memory is my keepsake with which I’ll never part Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left God has you in His keeping I have you in my heart Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her Or you can be full of the love that you shared A million times we ve wanted you You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday A million times we cried Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday If love could only have saved you You can remember her and only that she is gone you never would have died Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on It broke our hearts to lose you You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back But you didn t go alone Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, For a part of us went with you love and go on the day God called you home www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 2
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Miss Me But Let Me Go If Tomorrow Starts Without Me Author Unknown Shortened version written by David Romano When I come to the end of the road When tomorrow starts without me And the sun has set for me and I’m not here to see I want no rites in a gloom filled room If the sun should rise and find your eyes Why cry for a soul set free? filled with tears for me Miss me a little- but not too long I wish so much you wouldn’t cry And not with your head bowed low the way you did today Remember the love that we once shared While thinking of the many things Miss me-but let me go we didn’t get to say For this is a journey we all must take I know how much you love me And each must go alone as much as I love you It’s all a part of the Master’s plan And each time you think of me A step on the road to home I know you’ll miss me too When you are lonely and sick at heart When tomorrow starts without me Go to the friends we know don’t think we’re far apart And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds For every time you think of me Miss me- but let me go I’m right there in your heart www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 3
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Afterglow Her Journey’s Just Begun Helen Lowrie Marshall E Brenneman I’d like the memory of me Don’t think of her as gone away to be a happy one Her journey’s just begun I’d like to leave an afterglow Life holds so many facets of smiles when life is done This earth is only one I’d like to leave and echo whispering down the ways Just think of her as resting Of happy times and laughing From the sorrow and the tears times and bright and sunny days In a place of warmth and comfort I’d like the tears of those who Where there are no days and years grieve, to dry before the sun Of happy memories that I leave Think how she must be wishing When life is done 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. www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 4
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Inside Our Dreams The way I feel Jeanne Willis Author Unknown Where do people go to when they die? They say there is a reason, Somewhere down below or in the sky? They say that time will heal, ‘I can’t be sure,’ said Grandad, ‘but it seems But neither time nor reason, They simply set up home inside our dreams 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. www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 5
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Where do they go to? Legacy of Love KevF Author Unknown Where do they go to, the people who leave? A wife, a mother, a grandma too Are they around us, in the cool evening breeze? This is the legacy we have from you Do they still hear us, and watch us each day? You taught us love and how to fight I’d like you to think of them with us that way You gave us strength, you gave us might A stronger person would be hard to find Where do they go to, when no longer here? And in your heart, you were always kind I think that they stay with us, calming our fear You fought for us all in one way or another Loving us always, holding our hands Not just as a wife not just as a mother Walking beside us, on grass or on sand For all of us you gave your best Now the time has come for you to rest Where do they go to, well it’s my belief So go in peace, you’ve earned your sleep They watch us and help us to cope with our grief Your love in our hearts, we’ll eternally keep They comfort and stay with us, through each of our days Guiding us always through life’s mortal maze www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 6
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au So go and run free I’m Free Author Unknown Author Unknown So go and run free with the angels Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free, I’m following the Dance around the golden clouds path God laid for me For the lord has chosen you to be with him I took his hand when I heard his call, I turned my back And we should feel nothing but proud and left it all Although he has taken you from us I could not stay another day, to laugh, to love, to work, to play And our pain a lifetime will last Tasks left undone must stay that way, I’ve found that Your memory will never escape us peace at the end of the day But make us glad for the time we did have If my parting has left a void, then fill it with remembered joy Your face will always be hidden A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, ah, yes, these things Deep inside our hearts too I will miss Each precious moment you gave us Be not burdened with times of sorrow, I wish you the Shall never, ever depart sunshine of tomorrow So go and run free with the angels My Life’s been full, I savoured much, good friends, As they sing so tenderly good times, a loved one’ touch And please be sure to tell them Perhaps my time seemed all too brief, don’t lengthen To take good care of you for me it now with undue grief Lift up your heart and share with me, God wanted me now, He set me free www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 7
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep Epitaph on a Friend Mary Frye Robert Burns Where do they go to, the people who leave? An honest man here lies at rest Are they around us, in the cool evening breeze? The friend of man, the friend of truth Do they still hear us, and watch us each day? The friend of age, and guide of youth I’d like you to think of them with us that way Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d Where do they go to, awhen no longer here? Few heads with knowledge so inform’d I think that they stay with us, calming our fear If there’s another world, he lives in bliss Loving us always, holding our hands If there is none, he made the best of this 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 www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 8
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au By Herself and Her Friends Poem for Nana Joyce Grenfell Sarah Vine If I should go before the rest of you To my dearest darling Nana Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Up in Heaven, high above Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice I know today you’re with us all But be the usual selves that I have known And sending all your love Weep if you must, Parting is hell But Life goes on, So sing as well Today we all remember you And bid you one last goodbye Celebrate the life you’ve had And maybe have a cry You’ll never be forgotten Nan I’ll just close my eyes and see Your smiling face and feel your love And you’ll be close to me You had such a long life So many have so less It was your time, the Angels came And placed you with the best So dear Nana, up above Although your no longer here In my heart is where I’ll keep you Forever, you’ll be near www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 9
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au General – Quotes “ “There’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your Mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.” MITCH ALBOM “ “If there is ever a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.I’ll always be with you.” A.A. MILNE “ “ “A special person, a special face A special someone we cannot replace.” “To hear your voice, to see you smile To sit and talk to you a while To be together in the same old way Would be our greatest wish today” “ “In our hearts you will always stay Loved and remembered every day” www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 10
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au “ “May the winds of love blow softly” “And whisper for you to hear That we will love and remember you And forever keep you near” “ “ “This day will be remembered and quietly kept No words are needed, we will never forget” “We didn’t see you close your eyes We didn’t say goodbye We were only told that you were gone Without a last goodbye” “ “ “ “To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die” “It’s not what we write, it’s not what we say It’s how we remember you in our own special way” “Tired and weary you made no fuss You tried so hard to stay with us Your suffered so much and told so few You never deserved what you went though” www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 11
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au “ “Though his/her smile has gone forever And his/her hands we cannot touch We shall never lose the memory Of the .we loved so much” “ “ “ “ “Weep not that he/she has gone, but smile that he/she has been” “A tender thought that brings a tear A silent wish that you were here” “To the world you were but one, to us you were our world” “With tears we saw you suffer We watched you fade away Our hearts were slowly breaking As you fought so hard to stay You did not want to leave us But you did not go alone For part of us went with you The day God called you home No words are needed, we will never forget” www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 12
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Babies & Children – Poems & Readings Little Snowdrop To A Newborn Baby Author Unknown Author Unknown The world may never notice if a snowdrop doesn’t bloom Just a bundle in a shawl Or even pause to wonder if the petals fall too soon A newborn baby pink and small But every life that ever forms, or ever comes to be You’re a little miracle – something very wonderful Touches the world in some small way for all eternity You, a weak and helpless mite Have emerged into the light The little one we longed for, was swiftly here and gone And arrived upon the earth, through the secret gates of birth But the love that was then planted, is a light that still shines on In your prescence I feel shy, and I feel I’d like to cry And though our arms are empty, our hearts know what to do You’re a mystery to me, straight from heaven you seem to be Every beating of our hearts says that we love you www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 13
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au The Miracle of Love Special Angel in Heaven Maureen Hawkins Author Unknown Before you were conceived I wanted you There’s a special Angel in Heaven Before you were born I loved you that is a part of me. Before you were here an hour It is not where I wanted her I would have died for you but where God wanted her to be. This is the miracle of love She was here but just a moment like a night time shooting star. And though she is in Heaven she isn’t very far. She touched the heart of many like only an Angel can do. I would’ve held her every minute if the end I only knew. So I send this special message to the Heaven up above. Please take care of my Angel and send her all my love. www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 14
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Fly Jean-Jacques Goldman / Phil Galdston Fly, fly little wing Fly beyond imagining Fly, fly do not fear The softest cloud, the whitest dove Upon Don’t waste a breath, don’t shed a tear the wind of heaven’s love Your heart is pure, your soul is free Be on your way, don’t wait for me Past the planets and the stars Leave this lonely world of ours Above the universe you’ll climb Escape the sorrow and the pain On beyond the hands of time And fly again The moon will rise, the sun will set But I won’t forget Fly, fly precious one Your endless journey has begun Fly, fly little wing Take your gentle happiness Fly where only angels sing Far too beautiful for this Fly away, the time is right Go now, find the light Cross over to the other shore There is peace forevermore But hold this memory bittersweet Until we meet www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 15
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Heaven’s Nursery Too Soon Author Unknown Mary Yarnall In heaven there must surely be This was a life that had hardly begun A special place – a nursery No time to find your place in the sun Where little spirits not fully grown No time to do all you could have done Go to live in their heavenly home But we loved you enough for a lifetime No time to enjoy the world and it’s wealth No time to take life down off the shelf No time to sing the songs of yourself Though you had enough love for a lifetime Those who live long endure sadness and tears But you’ll never suffer the sorrowing years No betrayal, no anger, no hatred, no fears Just love - only love - in your lifetime. www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 16
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au Babies & Children – Quotes “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby’s birth. Then whispered as she closed the book too beautiful for earth’” “Sweet little flower of heavenly birth, you were too fair to bloom on earth” “A moment in our arms, a lifetime in our hearts” “A life may last for just a moment, but memory can make that moment last forever” “Each new life, no matter how fragile or brief, forever changes the world” “A heart of gold stopped beating, two willing hands at rest. God broke our hearts to prove to us He only takes the best” “The mention of my child’s name may bring tears to my eyes, but it never fails to bring music to my ears. If you are really my friend, let me hear the beautiful music of his/her name. It soothes my broken heart and sings to my soul” “There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world” www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 17
Your Life Assist www.yourlifeassist.com.au info@yourlifeassist.com.au “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “No one can know how much I love you, because you are the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside” “We asked God for a baby, instead he gave us an Angel” “A person’s a person, no matter how small” DR SEUSS “Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones shines through to let us know they are with us” “So little, so loved” “I held you every second of your life” STEPHANIE PAIGE COLE “Some people believe in angels. I held one in my arms” “Your tiny footprints forever embedded on our hearts” www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 18
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