Funeral Poems & Readings

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

A funeral poem for comfort during unsettling times

Print

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
‘Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.Dull sublunary lovers’ love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th’ other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
WhatsApp
Email
Print

Funeral Shop

Keeping the memory alive. See our high-quality range of funeral products and jewellery including urns, ash pendants, keepsakes, candle holders, bracelets, rings and more.

More Funeral Poems

Coronach

He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The fount reappearing ...
Read Full Poem →

The Death Bed

We watch’d her breathing thro’ the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. ...
Read Full Poem →

All Is Well

Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped into the next room I am I and you are you Whatever we were to each ...
Read Full Poem →

Of Joy and Sorrow

Then a woman said, ―Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.‖ And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from ...
Read Full Poem →

My Lost Love

I have only just lost you; the pain is hard to bear. Do I have to go through life knowing you’re not there? Please, someone ...
Read Full Poem →

Remember Me

To the living, I am gone, To the sorrowful, I will never return, To the angry, I was cheated, But to the happy, I am ...
Read Full Poem →

I Am Standing Upon The Seashore

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. ...
Read Full Poem →

Big Brother Gone

Day by day, I think of you. How can all of this be true? I can’t believe you’re really gone; I still can’t accept it, ...
Read Full Poem →

Time Is Meant To Heal

Although unheard, I thank you For always being there. Even when you were bedridden, You always seemed to care. You meant so much to all ...
Read Full Poem →

Time Does Not Bring Relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping ...
Read Full Poem →

Troubled Heart

The moment you took your life, I felt mine ended too. If I could only turn back time, there’s so much I would undo. I ...
Read Full Poem →

Memories

I feel a warmth around me, like your presence is so near. And I close my eyes to visualize your face when you were here. ...
Read Full Poem →

Untitled Poem To A Lost Love

At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly To the lone vale we loved, when life shone warm in Thine eye; ...
Read Full Poem →

Untitled

If I should never see the moon again Rising red gold across the harvest field, Or feel the stinging of soft April rain As the ...
Read Full Poem →

Grandpa, I Miss You

I know it hurt you; It hurt me too, But now that you’re gone All I know is I miss you. You were there for ...
Read Full Poem →