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Over 200 Funeral poems and eulogies suitable for every bereavement, funeral or remembrance situation. Whatever brought you to this funeral poems and eulogies site today, we hope you find the solace and peace you require.

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Funeral Poems

Our Funeral Poems page lists over 200 poems in alphabetical order and funeral poems categories.

On the page below we have listed the funeral poems into funeral poem categories. For example, if the funeral poem is specifically about a 'Mother' (or mentions a Mother), then we've listed it accordingly.

Poems For A Funeral

Poems For A Funeral

Almost 200 free poems for a funeral can be found on this funeral poems site, and the list is growing all the time.

Poems for a funeral need to be personal and not general. When they are read, you need to feel that the poet knew the person who has died, and wrote the poem just for them.

That's not an easy thing to do, but among the many poems for a funeral that you find on this funeral poems website, we trust you will find just the poem you need. With verses that exactly derscribe the person who has died, or which exactly how you feel at your loss.

We have tried to provide every possible style of poems for a funeral, including funeral poems for servicemen and women, babies and children, young adults, partners, middle aged and more elderly people. You will also find poems for those more difficult funerals, and have included poems for a funeral after suicide, after a still birth, after alzheimers.

We feel for your loss, and whatever your need today, our aim is to make this funeral poems website a site that contains poems for a funeral of any type, whether the death was expected or unexpected, sudden, or after a long illness.

If you are a poet, and you have written poems for funerals, please consider submitting your poem to the site so that the maximum number of bereaved persons may benefit from your work at their time of greatest need.

We hope, over time, that this site will become the worlds largest collection of free poems for a funeral.

Funeral Poems: 

Homeward Bound

HOMEWARD BOUND
by Lena Arnold

I rise
Letting my soul flow with the beauty of the sunset
Becoming one with the fullness of the sky
So you see
I didn’t really die
I comprise the rainbow
I comprise the sun
Like the unity in the Father’s kingdom
the Son and I are one

I’m rising
Joining new worlds
New Realities
Riding each cascading wave
of Heaven’s celestial seas
I’ve risen with my beliefs
Gaining comfort from my faith
for my entire Father’s house I now see

Still I rise-
yet the question remains
Will you rise with me?

I rise higher
Shaking off the burdensome dust
from which I was made
Walking on streets of gold
with silver inlaid
And I thank God joyfully
for my dues have all been paid

Still I rise
Becoming one with the beauty
reserved for the sky
So you see
I didn’t really die!

© 2009 Lena Arnold

Excerpted from: Strong Black Coffee: Poetry and Prose to Enlighten, Encourage and Entertain Americans of African Descent. (Emperor Publishing grants permission to use as a part of a funeral service. Grants printing rights to individual and churches to use in programs. Author and Copyright Date Must appear in printing. As a courtesy, also please cite the author when reading aloud.

Funeral Poems: 

Farewell To Thee

Farewell to Thee! But not farewell
To all my fondest thoughts of Thee;
Within my heart they still shall dwell
And they shall cheer and comfort me.
Life seems more sweet that Thou didst live
And men more true Thou wert one;
Nothing is lost that Thou didst give,
Nothing destroyed that Thou hast done.

Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849)

Funeral Poems: 

Family Of Mine: I should like to send you a sunbeam

Family of mine:
I should like to send you a sunbeam, or the twinkle of some bright star,
or a tiny piece of the downy fleece that clings to a cloud afar.

I should like to send you the essence of a myriad sun-kissed flowers,
or the lilting song as it floats along, of a brook through fairy bowers.

I should like to send you the dew-drops that glisten at break of day,
and then at night the eerie light that mantles the Milky Way.

I should like to send you the power that nothing can overflow,
the power to smile and laugh the while a-jouneying through life you go.

But these are mere fanciful wishes; I'll send you a Godspeed instead,
and I'll clasp your hand. Then you'll understand all the things I have left unsaid.

Funeral Poems: 

Even Such Is Time

Even such is Time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with earth and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days;
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.

Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)

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