If you need some inspiration for readings or poems to read at the funeral service you’re planning, I am always happy to help. For starters, here are some funeral readings that may inspire you.
Most of these can easily be found online, but if you wish me to I can share them with you. There are many more besides.
Popular funeral poems
and readings
- At Rest (Anon)
- Feel No Guilt In Laughter (Anon)
- (S)he Is Gone by David Harkins
- God’s Garden (Anon)
- Miss Me, But Let Me Go by Glyn Shipton
- Psalm 23
- When I Am Gone by Lyman Hancock
- His/Her Journey’s Just Begun by Ellen Brenneman
- Afterglow (Anon)
- Do Not Stand by Mary Elizabeth Frye
- The Fallen Limb (Anon)
- John 14
- The Dogs Must Have Their Walks by Al Sation
- Come To Me
- When Tomorrow Starts Without Me by Frances M Coelho
Popular funeral poems for parents
- My Mother/Father Kept A Garden (Anon)
- Our Mum/Dad (Anon)
- Mother’s Hands by Marian Jones
- If Flowers Grow In Heaven by Dolores M Garcia
- Reunited by Leisa Jayne Young
- Reunited by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Together Again (Anon)
Popular funeral poems for children and young people
- Too Soon by Mary Yarnall
- His/Her Role Down Here Is Done (Anon)
- The Dream of The Cabbage Caterpillars
- These Are My Footprints by Tamara Barker
- The Unfinished (Anon)
- Angel by F. Kondis
- Epitaph Of A Child by Thomas Gray
- Fairy Castle (Anon)
- If Tears Could Build A Stairway (Anon)
- The Little Snowdrop (Anon)
- An Angel Wrote In The Book Of Life (Anon)
- Final Passage of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- An Angel Never Dies by Toni Kane
Popular funeral poems by famous writers
- Crossing The Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- If by Rudyard Kipling
- On A Friend by Robert Burns
- Summum Bonum by Robert Browning
- Our revels, now are ended (from The Tempest) by William Shakespeare
- Regret Not Me by Thomas Hardy
- For Whom The Bell Tolls by John Donne
- Farewell To Thee by Anne Bronte
- Requiem by Louis Stevenson
- The True Joy Of Life by George Bernard Shaw
- Do Not Go Gently Into That Night by Dylan Thomas
- Daffodils by William Wordsworth
- Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- If I Should Go by Joyce Grenfell
- Remember by Christina Rossetti
Popular military funeral poems
- 4th Stanza from The Fallen by Laurence Binyon
Popular funeral poems for a candle lighting ceremony
- Four Candles (Anon)
Popular poems for a woodland burial
- Woodland Burial by Pam Ayres
- For Those Laid To Rest Here by Fran Hall
- Don’t Leave A Wooden Cross by Roger Gale
Popular poems for a burial at sea
- Sea Fever by John Masefield
- The Full Sea by William Ernest Henley
- Alone, I Will Not Be by Capt. Chas Theesfeld
Popular poems for a scattering of ashes
- Scatter My Ashes To The Wind (Anon)
- Part of Time (Anon)
- Farewell by Stevie Smith
- Farewell, Sweet Dust by Elinor Wyle
- Part Of Time (Anon)
I hope these have helped to provide a little inspiration. I also have many readings on various subjects, hobbies, etc.
Feel free to get in touch with me if you’d like to find out more about planning and personalising a funeral or celebration of life service.
