Memorial Verses
Longer poems and readings for a full inside page, an acknowledgement card or a memoriam notice.
When I come to the end of the road,And the sun has set for me,I want no rites in a gloom filled room,Why cry for a soul set free.Miss me a little, but not too long,And not with your head bowed low.Remember the love that we once shared,Miss me but let me go.· · ·
Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there. I do not sleep,I am a thousand winds that blow,I am the diamond glints on snow,I am the sunlight on ripened grain,I am the gentle autumn rain,When you awaken in the morning’s hush,I am the swift uplifting rush,· · ·
I am standing on the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her white sailsto the morning breeze and starts out for the blue ocean.She is an object of beauty and I stand and watch heruntil at length she fades on the far horizon.Then someone at my side says, “There, she has gone.”Gone where? Gone from my sight — that is all.She is just as large in mast, hull and spar· · ·
When I must leave you for a little while,Please do not grieve and shed wild tearsAnd hug your sorrow to you through the years,But start out bravely with a gallant smile,And for my sake and in my name,Live on and do all things the same.Feed not your loneliness on empty days,But fill each waking hour in useful ways,· · ·
Don’t think of him as gone away,His journey’s just begun,Life holds so many facets,This earth is only one.Just think of him as restingFrom the sorrows and the tears,In a place of warmth and comfortWhere there are no days and years.· · ·
They say there is a reason,They say that time will heal,But neither time nor reason,Will change the way we feel,For no one knows the heartacheThat lies beyond our smiles,No one knows how many timesWe have broken down and cried,· · ·
I’d like the memory of meto be a happy one.I’d like to leave an afterglowof smiles when life is done.I’d like to leave an echowhispering softly down the ways,Of happy times and laughing timesand bright and sunny days.· · ·
Death is nothing at all —I have only slipped away into the next room.Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.Call me by my old familiar name,speak to me in the easy way which you always used.Life means all that it ever meant.All is well.
When tomorrow starts without me,And I’m not there to see;If the sun should rise and find your eyes,All filled with tears for me;I wish so much you wouldn’t cry,The way you did today,While thinking of the many thingsWe didn’t get to say.· · ·
Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free,I’m following the path God laid for me,I took His hand when I heard Him call,I turned my back and left it all.If my parting has left a void,Then fill it with remembered joy,A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,Ah yes, these I too will miss.· · ·
The Lord is my shepherd, I’ll not want,He makes me down to lie,In pastures green he leadeth me,The quiet waters by.My soul he doth restore again,And me to walk doth make,Within the paths of righteousness,E’en for his own name’s sake.· · ·
We give our loved ones back to God,And just as He first gave them to usand did not lose them in the giving,so we have not lost them in returning them to Him,For life is eternal, love is immortal,death is only a horizon,and a horizon is nothingbut the limit of our earthly sight.
There comes a time for all of usWhen we must say good-bye,But faith and hope and love and trustCan never, never die.Although the curtain falls at last,Is that a cause to grieve?The future’s fairer than the pastIf only we believe.· · ·
I am at home in Heaven, dear ones,Oh, so happy and so bright,There is perfect joy and beautyIn this everlasting light.All the pain and grief is over,Every restless yearning passed,I am now at peace forever,Safely home in Heaven at last.· · ·
You can only have one mother,Patient, kind and true;No other friend in all the worldWill be the same to you.When other friends forsake you,To mother you will return,For all her loving kindness,She asks nothing in return.· · ·
Gone from our home that smiling face,The happy cheerful ways,The heart that won so many friendsIn bygone happy days.In dreams we see her smiling face,And kiss her tender brow,But in our aching hearts we know,We have no mother now.· · ·
We sat beside your bedside,Our hearts were crushed and sore;We did our duty to the end,’Til we could do no more.In tears we watched you sinking,We watched you fade away;And though our hearts were breaking,We knew you could not stay.· · ·
We lost a father with a heart of gold,How much we miss him can never be told.He shared our troubles and helped us along,If we follow his footsteps we will never go wrong.We miss you from your fireside chair,Your loving smile and gentle air,Your vacant place no one can fill,We miss you, father, and always will.
I’ll lend you for a little while a child of mine, God said,For you to love the while he lives, and mourn for when he’s dead.It may be six or seven years, or forty-two or three.But will you, till I call him back, take care of him for me.He’ll bring his charms to gladden you, and should his stay be brief,You’ll always have his memories as a solace for your grief.I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return,But there are lessons taught below I want this child to learn.· · ·
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