Funeral Verses Melbourne

Saying goodbye is hard, and finding the right words to do so is even harder. We hope our collection of funeral verses will help provide some inspiration and comfort for you to express yourself with. We also offer our assistance in putting together an appropriate prose for you, be it for a notice in the paper or for a speech at the service.

Mary Elizabeth Frye – DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP 

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am the thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on the snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle Autumn rain
When you awake in the morning hush
I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there; I did not die.

Helen Lowrie Marshall -AFTERGLOW

I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one
I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done
I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days,
I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that I leave when my life is done.

Henry Scott Holland – ALL IS WELL

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 you always used.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me and pray for me.
Let my name be the household world that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect,
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was;
There is absolutely unbroken continuity,
Why should I be out of your mind, because I am out of your sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near just around the corner.
All is well, Nothing is past, Nothing is lost,
One brief moment and all will be as it was before,
Only better, infinitely happier and forever we will be one together.

Oliver Wright -ONE AT REST

Think of me as one at rest for me you should not weep,
I have no pain no troubled thoughts, for I am just asleep,
The living thinking me that was, is now forever still.
And life goes on without me as time forever will.
If your heart is heavy now because I’ve gone away, dwell not long upon it friend for none of us can stay.
Those of you who like me, I sincerely thank you all,
And those of you who love me, I thank you most of all.