Sympathy Poems

Sympathy poems / poems for funerals, are commonly included in a loved ones funeral / memorial service. Sympathy poetry can help those grieving, to express how they feel. This collection of sympathy poems would be considered suitable to read, within your loved ones funeral program. I have compiled a beautiful, heartfelt compilation of the most popular funeral verses, to help make your task simpler, during this most difficult time. Sending You My Deepest Sympathy. No words can express the heartache you must be feeling at this sad time.

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A Thought On Death | Sympathy Funeral Poems

A Thought On Death
(Sympathy Funeral Poems)

When life as opening buds is sweet
And golden hopes the fancy greet.
And Youth prepares his joys to meet
Alas! how hard it is to die!

When just is seized some valued prize
And duties press, and tender ties.
Forbid the soul from earth to rise
How awful then it is to die!

When, one by one, those ties are torn
And friend from friend is snatched forlorn.
And man is left alone to mourn
Ah then, how easy ’tis to die!

When faith is firm, and conscience clear
And words of peace the spirit cheer.
And visioned glories half appear
‘Tis joy, ’tis triumph then to die.

When trembling limbs refuse their weight
And films, slow gathering, dim the sight.
And clouds obscure the mental light
‘Tis nature’s precious boon to die.

- W. H. Auden

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Roads Go Ever Ever On | Sympathy Funeral Poems

Roads Go Ever Ever On
(Sympathy Funeral Poems)

Roads go ever, ever on
over rock and under tree ..
By caves where never sun has shone
by streams that never find the sea.

Over snow by winter sown
and through the merry flowers of June ..
Over grass and over stone
and under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on
under clouds and under stars ..
Yet feet that wandering have gone
turn at last to home afar.

Eyes that fire and sword have seen
and horror in the halls of stone ..
Look at last on meadows green
and trees and hills they have long known.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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Though I Am Dead | Sympathy Funeral Poems

Though I Am Dead
(Sympathy Memorial Poems)

Though I am dead, grieve
not for me with tears ..
Think not of death
with sorrowing and tears.

I am so near that
every tear you shed ..
Touches and tortures me
though you think me dead.

But when you laugh and
sing in glad delight ..
My soul is lifted upward
to the light.

Laugh and be glad
for all that life is giving ..
And I, though dead, will
share your joy in living.

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Your Fathers Time Has Come To Go | Funeral Poems For Dad

Your Fathers Time Has Come To Go
(Sympathy Funeral Poems Dad)

Your father’s time
has come to go ..
Now that God has
beckoned him so.

The door of life
has opened wide ..
To let him through
and pass inside.

Who are we to say
When and where we go?

It is not for us
to choose ..
Who we love
or who we lose.

Before you shed
a painful tear ..
Whisper in
his waiting ear.

“Farewell, my
darling Dad ..
Farewell, for all
the love we’ve had.”