A Selection of Poems,
(I do not own these works they have all been found in the public domain, should you wish to be accredited for any of them please do contact me)
- A Dad, a father, a grandad too.
- A Dieu and Au Revoir
- Afterglow
- A Happy Man
- Airman's Prayer
- A Letter from Heaven
- A little kindness and a little less greed
- All it takes is a passing shadow
- An honest man here lies at rest - Robert Burns
- An Individual Human Existence - Bertrand Russell
- A Mother’s Parable
- A parting guest
- A Reflection on An Autumn Day
- A rose once grew besides a garden wall
- A song of the living
- A Special Mum/Nan is hard to find
- As we look back over time
- As you love me, let there be no mourning.
- At that hour
- Away
- A Wife, a mother a grandma too
- Because I have loved life
- Biker's Prayer
- Bon Voyage
- Buddhist Quote
- Can you hear a bird sing?
- Celtic Blessing
- Clouds - Down the Blue Night
- Come not to mourn for me with solemn tread - W Holtby
- Crossing the bar- Tennyson
- Cycles of Life and Death (Buddhist)
- Butterfly - (Buddhist)
- Daffodils
- Death be not proud - John Donne
- Death for one ought not mean death for two - Nicholas Gordon
- Death is nothing at all
- Death is not the end - Peter Tatchell
- Death is the most profound - Berdyaev
- Departed Comrade - Lucretius (94-55bc)
- Desiderata
- Do not go gentle into that light
- Do not judge a biography by its length
- Do not stand at my grave and weep
- Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free
- Don’t make me a hero when I am gone
- Don’t think of him/her as gone away - Ellen Brenneman
- Each night we shed a silent tear
- Early Death - Hartley Coleridge
- Epitaph on a child - Thomas Gary (1716-1771)
- Epitaph on William Muir - Robert Burns
- Even such is time - Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
- Fair Daffodils- Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- Family of mine: I should like to send you a sunbeam -
- Farewell my friends
- Farewell to thee
- Fear no more the heat of the sun - Shakespeare
- Feel no guilt in laughter
- Footprints
- For what it is to die - Kahlil Gibran
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - John Donne
- Four Candles
- Friendship - Kahlil Gibran
- From the Antique
- Funeral Blues
- Give me my scallop-shell of quiet - Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
- God saw you were getting tired
- God's Garden
- God looked around his Garden (God's Garden)
- Good-night - A E Housman
- Go placidly amidst the noise and haste
- Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths - Yeats
- Happy the Man
- Happy the Woman
- He has achieved success
- He is made one with nature - From Adonais - Shelley
- He is not lost our dearest love
- He only takes the best
- Heritage
- High Flight
- His golden Locks - George Peele (1558-1599)
- I am not gone (reading for a parent)
- I cannot say and I will not say
- I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one.
- I fall asleep in full and certain hope
- If I had a voice
- If I should die
- If i should go before the rest of you.
- If i should go tomorrow
- If I should never see the moon again - Major Malcolm Boyd
- If only we could see the splendour of the land
- If roses grow in heaven
- If tomorrow starts without me
- I envy not in any moods - Lord Tennyson
- I felt an Angel near today
- If I should die, think only this of me - Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
- If I should ever leave you whom I love
- If you can keep your head, when all around
- I know this well worn pathway.
- I'll lend you a child - Edgar Guest (1881-1959)
- I'll be there
- I look towards the silent hills.
- I'm not normally mad about funerals
- I must go down to the seas again
- I must have a band
- In the Garden (Christian) C Austin Miles
- In Memoriam - Lord Tennyson
- I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year - Minnie Haskins (1875-1957)
- Is it true that after this life of ours, we shall one day be awakened
- Is there another world for this frail dust - John Clare
- I thank thee God that I have lived
- I think no matter where you stray
- It was beautiful as long as it lasted
- Indian Prayer
- I read of a man who stood to speak
- I thought I saw your face today.
- I've come to the end of life's busy road.
- I wandered lonely as a cloud.
- I was loved, therefore I am - Ann Draper
- Just close your eyes and you will see - (a silent tear)
- Leisure
- Let me go, we've known lots of pleasure -
- Life, believe is not a dream - Charlotte Bronte
- Life is but a stopping place - Christian
- Light
- Look for me in rainbows.
- Look for me when the tide is high
- Love bade me welcome - George Herbert
- Love Lives On -
- May the roads rise to meet you
- May the Sun rise in front of me (Bikers Prayer)
- Miss me, but let me go
- Music, when soft voice die - Shelley
- My true love hath my heart - Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- Not how did he die
- Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost
- Not in Vain - Emily Dickinson
- Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
- On Death (Bertrand Russell) Humanist
- One night a man had a dream
- One should always have one’s boots on - De Montaigne
- On Giving
- Our England is a Garden
- Our revels are now ended - Tempest
- Peace my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet
- Pilgrims Progress
- Rage against the dying of the light
- Refuge
- Regret not me
- Remember me
- Requiem
- Resurrection
- Richness
- Risk
- She is not gone
- She passed away like morning dew - H Coleridge
- Silent Tear
- Sonnet XXX - William Shakespeare
- Still There - A whisper in the Wind
- Stop all the Clocks
- Success
- Sunset and evening star
- That Man is a Success
- The Clock of life is wound but once
- The Dash
- The Death of Each of Us - Sir Hubert Read
- The Definitive Journey
- The Fallen Limb
- The family Chain
- The Gate of the Year - Minnie Louise Haskins (1875-1957)
- The Glory of the Garden
- The Lord God planted a garden
- The mother in my heart
- The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one
- The Plan of the Master Weaver
- There is an end to grief - Acceptance - Brenda Lismer
- There is a plan far greater than the plan you know -
- There is no night without a dawning.
- There is no death
- There’s a certain slant of light - Emily Dickinson
- There's a door that never closes
- There's a ship sailing on to a harbour
- There was no time to say good-bye
- The Rose beyond the Wall
- The sadness of the present days is locked and set in time. - Bruce Wilmer
- The Soldier - Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
- The Tide rises the Tide falls - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - (1807-1882)
- The Tide Recedes
- The Unknown Shore
- The world's greatest need - C Austin Miles (1868-1956)
- They are not dead, who leave us this great heritage.
- They do not leave
- They that love beyond the world - William Penn (Quaker)
- Think of me as one at rest.
- This will I cherish
- Though we need to weep your loss
- Time for me to go now
- Time is too slow for those who wait
- Time will heal the hurt
- Tis only we who grieve
- To Daffodils
- Together Again
- To laugh, is to risk appearing the fool
- To laugh often and love much - Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
- To the Living I am gone
- To those I love - Isla Paschal Richardson
- Under the wide and starry sky - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Uphill - Does the road wind up hill all the way?
- We little knew that morning
- We trust that beyond the absence
- Weep not for me when I am gone
- We’ve shared our lives
- We will always remember you
- What delightful guests are they, Life and Love!
- What is this life if, full of care
- What the Caterpillar perceives (Buddhist) -
- When at heart you should be sad
- When I am dead
- When I am dead, my dearest, Rossetti
- When I am gone, release me
- When i come to the end of the road
- When I come to the end of my journey
- When I must leave you for a while, please do not grieve
- With these hands
- Word
- You Know how little time we have to stay.
- You must feel no guilt in laughter
- You can shed tears that she is gone.
- You gave no one a last farewell
- You Left Quietly Without a Fuss
- You never said I'm Leaving.
- You want a Physicist to speak at your Funeral-Aaron Freeman