Poetry often focuses on our mortality so it is not surprising so many poems cover themes that focus our minds on the death of loved ones. Not all poems work at funerals, but here are some that can bring people together in memory of the loss of someone they loved.
- Anon - Little Snowdrop
- WH Auden - Funeral Blues
- Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband
- Rupert Brooke - The Soldier
- GK Chesterton - The Rolling English Road
- William Henry Davies - Leisure
- Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for death
- Elaine Feinstein - Rosemary in Provence
- Edward Fitzgerald - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza 51
- Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
- Mary Elizabeth Frye - Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
- Thomas Hardy - Afterwards
- AE Housman - Into My Heart an Air that Kills
- Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb
- Louis MacNiece - The Sunlight on the Garden
- John Gillespie Magee - High Flight
- John Masefield - Sea-Fever
- Dachine Rainer - A Note EJB 1968-1973
- Christina Rossetti - Remember
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
- James Shirley - Death the Leveller
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Requiem
- Dylan Thomas - from 'Under Milk Wood'
- WB Yeats - An Irish Airman forsees his Death