These funeral verses and poems are suitable to read as a eulogy or include in an obituary. You can also use them as short verses on funeral cards, as condolence messages, or as sympathy or bereavement poems. Each one can provide a fitting memorial to a loved one, whether it be your
mum, dad, grandparent or someone else special to you.
Ideas for funeral poems and verses
A Death-Bed
A Song of Living
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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
Annabel Lee
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
Many of the poems listed are suitable for non-religious services.
We can supply all wording for these and more for our families to use at the service of their loved one.
