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.

Plus we have poems that are most suitable for:

Mother

Also, be sure to read some of the beautiful poems that our visitors have shared with us;

Our Visitors Poems

And we have a selection of

funeral quotations

as well, that might be suitable. Plus, if you want to enjoy some Irish literary lyrics, we have a selection of

Irish Blessings for Death

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 by Edgar A Guest

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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After looking through all our suggestions, are you still stuck for just the right poem? What about writing your own? For ideas on how to write a poem, this site is very helpful.

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