Memorial Verses
Gentle, secular verses about memory, love and letting go — with no religious wording.
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.· · ·
Distance takes us far apart,And darkens my today.I have to keep remembering —You’re just a thought away.And though you’re not beside me,I can tap into my heart,And draw upon the warmth and loveThat lives when we’re apart.
A light from our household has gone,A voice we loved is stilled,A place is vacant in our home,That never can be filled.
No matter how life changes,No matter what we do,A special place within our heartsIs always kept for you.
Loved with a love beyond all telling,Missed with a grief beyond all tears.
Each time we look at your picture,You seem to smile and say,Don’t be sad but courage take,And love each other for my sake.
They shall grow not old,As we that are left grow old,Age shall not weary them,Nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sunAnd in the morning,We will remember them.
Lonely is the home without you,Life to us is not the same;All the world would be like Heaven,If we could have you back again.
It was a sudden parting,Too bitter to forget,Only those who loved youAre the ones who will never forget.
Your life was one of kindly deeds,A helping hand for other’s needs,Sincere and true in heart and mind,Beautiful memories left behind.
A silent grief that’s in our hearts,No human eye can trace,For many a broken heart is hidBeneath a smiling face.
The happy hours we once enjoyed,How sweet their memory still,But death has left a vacant placeThis world can never fill.
Perhaps you sent a lovely card,Or sat quietly in a chair.Perhaps you sent a funeral spray,If so we saw it there.Perhaps you spoke the kindest words,As any friend could say.Perhaps you were not there at all,Just thought of us that day.· · ·
We hold you close within our hearts,And there you shall remain,To walk with us throughout our livesUntil we meet again.
We miss your smile, your joking ways,We miss the things you used to say,And when the old times we do recall,It’s then we miss you most of all.
Found the words you want? Simply quote the verse number (for example “Verse SV3”) in the notes when you place your order, or mention it on the phone, and our designers will set it on your card for you.
Our design team will guide you through photographs, wording and layout. Call us or send an email and we will look after the rest — anywhere in Ireland.
Unit 9, Gorey Business Park, Ramstown, Gorey, Co. Wexford, Y25 V123
Mon–Fri 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM · Sat–Sun Closed
