Best Poems For Funerals
When someone asks me, "What are the Best Poems For Funerals?" it is often hard to say. For some funerals are times of sadness, mourning and grief. For others a time to remember good times and bad. For still others, a time of joy, smiles and laughter. Our Family Poems for funerals bring us great comfort and have become old friends that stand by our side as we mourn.-Grandma Mary
Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant
Oh, deem not they are blest alone
Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep;
The Power who pities man, has shown
A blessing for the eyes that weep.
Come To Me When I'm Dying by Afton Effie
Come to me when I'm dying;
Gaze on my wasted form,
Tired with so long defying
Life's ever-rushing storm.
For The Consecration Of A Cemetary, by Horatio Alger
This verdant field that smiles to Heaven
In Nature's bright array,
From common uses set apart,
We consecrate to-day.
Little Charlie, by Horatio Alger
A VIOLET grew by the river-side,
And gladdened all hearts with its bloom;
While over the fields, on the scented air,
It breathed a rich perfume.
But the clouds grew dark in the angry sky,
And its portals were opened wide;
And the heavy rain beat down the flower
That grew by the river-side.
Mrs. Browning's Grave At Florence, by Horatio Alger
FLORENCE wears an added grace,
All her earlier honors crowning;
Dante's birthplace, Art's fair home,
Holds the dust of Barrett Browning.
Restland by George Doneghy
Within thy hallowed precincts on this sweet autumnal day,
We're wandering 'neath the cedar and the pine,
Where rests the sacred dust of loved ones passed away,
And bleeding hearts a melancholy pleasure find.
The Old Man's Funeral by William Cullen Bryant.
I saw an aged man upon his bier,
His hair was thin and white, and on his brow
A record of the cares of many a year;--
Cares that were ended and forgotten now.
And there was sadness round, and faces bowed,
And woman's tears fell fast, and children wailed aloud.
The Soldier's Grave by Fannie Sherrick
Above his head the cypress waves
Its dark green drooping leaves;
The sunlight through its branches wide
Where bright birds linger side by side
A golden net-work weaves.
To The Memory Of My Dear Brother by John Carr
Though no funeral grandeur swell my song,
Nor genius, eagle-plumed, the strain prolong,--
Though Grief and Nature here alone combine
To weep, my William! over a fate like thine,--
Yet thy fond prayer, still lingering on my ear,
Shall force its way through many a gushing tear:
The Muse, that saw thy opening beauties spread,
That loved thee living, shall lament thee dead!
Return from Best Poems For Funerals to Grandma's Family Poems
Do you know of a funeral story where poems were used to bring care and comfort?
Do you have a comforting funeral story or memory where poems were used? Please bless others with it by sharing it.
|
