Songs of the Death of Children (Kindertotenlieder)

If time exists in heaven, Do you still rise with the sun? Do you and Mom share breakfast Before your day has begun? Can the ...

Farewell My Friends It was beautiful As long as it lasted The journey of my life. I have no regrets Whatsoever said The pain I’ll ...

And when the stream that overflows has passed,A consciousness remains upon the silent shore of memory;Images and precious thoughts that shall not beAnd cannot be ...

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor ...

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where this is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, ...

Are there rocking chairs in Heaven where little babies go? Do the angels hold you closely and rock you to and fro? Do they talk ...

My body’s cold, lips are blue. Why did I do this because of you? I feel the earth below me like a pillow under my ...

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 ...

I know this man Who is dear to my heart. Suddenly one day It was torn all apart. This man taught me everything That I ...

My dear sweet heavenly father, I come to you today with faith and hope; I ask, send an angel Mama’s way. I know her time ...

As long as hearts remember As long as hearts still care We do not part with those we love They’re with us everywhere.

We miss your face; you were taken too soon. Your beaming smile that lit up the room, Them cheeky dimples and twinkle in your eye. ...

May the blessed sunlight shine on you Like a great peat fire, So that strangers and friends may come And warm themselves at it. And may ...

My mother seems so far away from me On that beautiful white shore across the sea. Yet I remember love’s soft glow upon her face ...

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before, ...