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Express Your Feelings With The Best Funeral Poems

This is a selection of some of the best funeral poems that are suitable for reading at funerals and memorial services.


Grief in any circumstance can be difficult to articulate. Through poetry you are able to express some of what you are feeling.

You will find poems that are most suitable for:

  • Mother
  • Father
  • Husband
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Grandmother
  • Lost Loved Ones
  • Spouse
  • Military

  • Also, be sure to read some of the beautiful poems that our visitors have shared with us; And we have a selection of as well, that might be suitable. Plus, if you want to enjoy some Irish literary lyrics, we have a selection of

    The Most Popular Funeral Poems

    Goodbye My Friend

    I Did Not Die

    What a ride! or What should one's life be?

    High Flight - the poem read at Christa McAuliffe's funeral

    Miss Me But Let Me Go

    All Is Well

    Poems Read At Princess Diana's funeral

    Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep

    A Selection of Poems and Musings by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Death Be Not Proud

    God Saw You Getting Tired

    If Tomorrow Starts Without Me

    There Is No Death

    Additional poems by Edgar A Guest

    To An Athlete Dying Young,
    the poem read by Meryl Streep in the movie, Out Of Africa


    When I Am Gone

    Footprints in the Sand

    Remember Me

    Life Is But A Stopping Place

    A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    The Poem From Four Weddings and a Funeral

    Beyond the Sunset (Should You Go First)

    Poems for Mothers

    Poems for Fathers

    Poems for a Child's Death

    Poem for Grandmother

    Poems for Husbands

    Poems for Wife

    Military

    Poems for Lost Loved Ones


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