Comforting Poems and Quotes for Funerals, Eulogies and Memorial Services

Lucie Storrs of the Light Beyond spent hours reviewing books of poems and quotes and searching the Internet to compile this extensive collection of more than 250 bereavement poems, quotes and funeral readings.

This collection of poems, quotes and readings contains many of the classic sympathy poems with  some of the more recent, contemporary ones. The user-friendly eBook, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" is readily available for download after purchase. Within a few quick minutes, you have access to the resources you might need to write a funeral speech or eulogy.

I was very honored when Lucie Storrs, the creator of the eBook of Funeral poems approached me to use one of my poems, "In Memory of You" in this extensive compilation of traditional and contemporary funeral poems and readings.

My poem, "In Memory of You" was included as an example of a contemporary bereavement poem in the new eBook of Funeral poems, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep."

I read an old card
sent many years ago
during a time of turmoil and confusion.
The soothing words written then
still caress my spirit
and bring me peace...

I miss your being
but I feel your presence,
In whatever form you choose to take,
however you now choose to be.

Your spirit has become for me
a guardian angel on high
guiding, advising, and watching over me.

I remember you.
You are with me
and I am not afraid.  

© 1996 Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS.

A Bereavement Poems eBook Author

Image of Rose in Book by ugaldew.

This is the new version of the Do Not Stand at My Grave And Weep poem written by Mary Elizabeth Frye. The middle verse was added in 2007 by Lucie Storrs for the movie/video version.

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's rain.

Do not stand at my grave and mourn.
I am the dew-flecked grass at dawn.
Where tranquil oceans meet the land
I am the footprints in the sand
To guide you through the weary day.
I am still here;
I'll always stay.

When you wake up to morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there;
I did not die.

© 2007 Lucie Storrs www.thelightbeyond.com. Reprinted with Permission.

A Bereavement Poems eBook Author

Be sure to see the video clip of this verions of the poem put to music and to images.

Lucie Storrs created an inspirational and comforting online mini movie or video to help those grieving the loss of a loved one. She used her updated version of the sympathy poem "Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep."

Using beautiful imagery and music by Brady Barnett this video clip works to comfort mourners grieving a loss. The music is by Brady Barnett in memory of his son Jonah.

From a speech given by Regius Professor of Divinity Henry Scott Holland in 1910 following the death of King Edward VII. The speech is often used as a funeral poem.

This poem is included in the eBook download as one of the traditional funeral poems.

Death is nothing at all.

It does not count.

I have only slipped away into the next room.

Nothing has happened.

Everything remains exactly as it was.

I am I, and you are you,

and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by the old familiar name.

Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference into your tone.

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.

Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was.

There is absolute and unbroken continuity.

What is this death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.

All is well. 

Henry Scott Holland

Source: Holland, Henry Scott. 1910. The King of Terrors. Wikisource.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell   

The Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep eBook is a very useful resource to have availble. The 250 poems, quotes and readings can be used in many ways to help those coping with grief.

This eBook can be used when

• Writing a Funeral speech
• Planning a Funeral
• Writing a Eulogy 
• Planning in Memorial Services
• Sending Words of Comfort as Condolences Writing a Sympathy Letter or Note
• Easing the pain of grief
• Searching to find the right words to express grief
• Writing an Obituary or Death Announcement
• Reading Contemporary and Traditional Bereavement Poems

The Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep eBook  features a collection of classical and traditional authors over 180 authors who have contributed a total of 250 poems and quotations. Some of the many grief poets include (in alphabetical order):

Anne and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Buddha, Leo Buscaglia, Noel Coward, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Daphne du Maurier, Kirsti A. Dyer, Max Ehrmann, George Eliot, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Viktor Frankl, Mary Elizabeth Frye, Kahlil Gibran, Henry Scott Holland, Homer, Helen Keller, Rudyard Kipling, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, D.H. Lawrence, C.S. Lewis, Li Po, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Muir, Hugh Robert Orr, Dorothy Parker, Sogyal Rinpoche, Christina Rossetti, Carl Sandburg, Seneca, William Shakespeare, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rabindranath Tagore, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, Henry van Dyke, Edith Wharton, E.B. White, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wolfe and William Wordsworth.

I am greatly honored to be included as a grief poet with this notable group of authors.

To order a copy of Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep, the collection of over 250 poems, quotations and readings to comfort, by clicking on any of the live book links on this page.

The Do Not Stand Ay My Grave and Weep eBook it is available for immediate download from the Light Beyond as a PDF file after purchase.

To order a copy of Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep, the collection of over 250 poems, quotations and readings to comfort, by clicking on any of the live book links on this page.

The Do Not Stand Ay My Grave and Weep eBook it is available for immediate download from the Light Beyond as a PDF file after purchase.