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"I wish I had been given When We Remember when my mother died. What a difference it would have made to her funeral, and probably to the years of grief afterwards." Michelle Hobson, Canada
Sometimes it is much easier and more comforting to take shelter in the great wordsmiths and traditions that have travelled this road before.
Perhaps you are looking for a reading to focus on the person that has died, or perhaps you prefer to find a reading that expresses your grief that they have gone.
More than 70 of the best poetry and excerpts , together with sacred readings from religious texts, have been carefully selected for When We Remember.
We have observed world copyright permissions, to faithfully reproduce the originals for everyone to share in one easy resource.
The delightful graphic design and stunning photography, throughout the book, ensures that Chapter 9 “The Written Word” will be a beautiful and inspiring collection both now and in the time ahead.
We have NOT selected the amateur, very personal reflections that fill so many "free" websites. Instead, we have accurately and beautifully presented the very best, most popular poems worldwide and gathered them into this one, easy to choose from, resource.
Below are just some of the examples –
“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. . .”
from Funeral Blues (W.H.Auden 1907-1973)
“You can shed tears because she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. . .”
from When We Remember (Unknown)
“I am standing upon that foreshore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails in the morning breeze, and starts for the blue ocean. . .”
from Toilers of the Sea (Victor Hugo 1862-1926)
“Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep. . .”
from Do Not Stand at My Grave (Mary Frye 1905-2004)
“If ever two were one then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. . .”
from To My Dear and Loving Husband (Anne Bradstreet 1612-1672)
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . .”
from Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night (Dylan Thomas 1914-1953)
“. . .and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.”
Traditional Gaelic Blessing
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book. . .”
from When You Are Old (W B Yeats 1865-1969)
“I’ll lend you a little child of mine,” He said. . .”
from To All Parents (Edgar Guest 1881-1959)
“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.
Will the day’s journey take the whole day long? From morn to night, my friend. . .”
from Up-Hill (Christina Rossetti 1830-1894)
“Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped into the next room. . .”
from All Is Well (Henry Scott Holland 1847-1918)
“. . .’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
from ’Tis Better to Have Loved (Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892)
“. . .If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.”
from Epitaph on William Muir (Robert Burns 1759-1796)
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