Poems and readings for funerals / edited by Julia Watson.

'Remember me when I am gone away' / Christina Rossetti -- Heaven-Haven / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Life Goes On / Joyce Grenfell -- Living Each Day / Lisa Kitson -- 'Death is nothing at all' / Henry Scott Holland -- Remember Me / Anonymous -- 'I'm here for a short visit only' / Noel Coward -- 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead' / William Shakespeare -- If Death is Kind / Sara Teasdale -- Fare Well / Walter de la Mare -- When I Died / Jo Shapcott -- 'Because I could not stop for death' / Emily Dickinson -- 'I see myself now at the end of my journey' / John Bunyan -- Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson -- 'I thought I'd write my own obituary' / Simon Armitage -- Think of Me Then / Asa James -- The New Path / Oscar Beynon -- Footprints in the Sand / Anonymous -- The Book / Paul Meadows -- The Legacy / Sarah-Jane Brooks -- 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' / John Keats.

When I Have Fears / Noel Coward -- A Song of Living / Amelia Josephine Burr -- 'I should like to be buried in a summer forest' / Helen Dunmore -- 'I would not have a god come in' / Sara Teasdale -- I've Made Out a Will / Simon Armitage -- Coda / Dorothy Parker -- Rest / Alan Curtis -- Prayer / Thomas Merton -- 'You must not shut the night inside you' / Friedrich Ruckert -- Prayer for the Little Daughter between Death and Burial / Diana Scott -- Epitaph on a Child / Thomas Gray -- On the Death of a Child / D. J. Enright -- Four Candles / Anonymous -- Too Soon / Mary Yarnall -- Requiescat / Oscar Wilde -- 'Promise you won't forget about me, ever' / A. A. Milne -- Funeral Blues / W. H. Auden -- 'Music, when soft voices die' / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- 'As birds are fitted to the boughs' / Louis Simpson -- Farewell, Sweet Dust / Elinor Wylie.

Echo / Christina Rossetti -- The Kaleidoscope / Douglas Dunn -- Verses Written on Her Deathbed at Bath to Her Husband in London / Mark Monk -- A Widow's Hymn / George Wither -- 'Time does not bring relief' / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Tomorrows / Simon Bridges -- 'Never more will the wind' / H. D. -- Marriage and Death / E. J. Scovall -- Inseparable / Philip Bourke Marston -- 'Dear gentle soul, who went so soon away' / Luis de Camoens -- In Memoriam E. S. / George Barker -- Highland Graveyard / Kathleen Raine -- 'Another and another and another' / James Henry -- 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' / William Shakespeare -- 'By ways remote and distant waters sped' / Catullus -- 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore' / William Shakespeare -- Elegy / David Harsent -- I Wish You Enough / Anonymous -- While I Slept / Robert Francis -- 'Do not go gentle into that good night' / Dylan Thomas.

Vicki Feaver -- 'The rooms and days we wandered through' / Peter Porter -- The Friend / Alice Kavounas -- 'You can shed tears that she is gone' / Anonymous -- Inside Our Dreams / Jeanne Willis -- Traditional Gaelic Blessing -- 'To every thing there is a season' / Ecclesiastes -- 'Our revels now are ended' / William Shakespeare -- So Many Different Lengths of Time / Brian Patten -- 'Come, fill the Cup' / Omar Khayyam -- 'Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth' / Ecclesiastes -- 'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels' / Corinthians -- 'Death be not proud' / John Donne -- 'Home is where one starts from' / T. S. Eliot -- Dirge without Music / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- 'Don't tell me that I mourn too much' / Michael Rosen -- All Things Pass / Lao-Tzu -- Earth / Derek Walcott -- On Death / Kahlil Gibran -- Gone from My Sight / Henry Van Dyke -- The Wheel / Susan Stocker.

Live Your Life / Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation -- Prayer / St. Francis of Assisi -- Old Irish Toast -- For My Own Tomb-stone / Matthew Prior.'Remember me when I am gone away' / Christina Rossetti -- Heaven-Haven / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Life Goes On / Joyce Grenfell -- Living Each Day / Lisa Kitson -- 'Death is nothing at all' / Henry Scott Holland -- Remember Me / Anonymous -- 'I'm here for a short visit only' / Noel Coward -- 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead' / William Shakespeare -- If Death is Kind / Sara Teasdale -- Fare Well / Walter de la Mare -- When I Died / Jo Shapcott -- 'Because I could not stop for death' / Emily Dickinson -- 'I see myself now at the end of my journey' / John Bunyan -- Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson -- 'I thought I'd write my own obituary' / Simon Armitage -- Think of Me Then / Asa James.

The New Path / Oscar Beynon -- Footprints in the Sand / Anonymous -- The Book / Paul Meadows -- The Legacy / Sarah-Jane Brooks -- 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' / John Keats -- When I Have Fears / Noel Coward -- A Song of Living / Amelia Josephine Burr -- 'I should like to be buried in a summer forest' / Helen Dunmore -- 'I would not have a god come in' / Sara Teasdale -- I've Made Out a Will / Simon Armitage -- Coda / Dorothy Parker -- Rest / Alan Curtis -- Prayer / Thomas Merton -- 'You must not shut the night inside you' / Friedrich Ruckert -- Prayer for the Little Daughter between Death and Burial / Diana Scott -- Epitaph on a Child / Thomas Gray -- On the Death of a Child / D. J. Enright -- Four Candles / Anonymous -- Too Soon / Mary Yarnall -- Requiescat / Oscar Wilde -- 'Promise you won't forget about me, ever' / A. A. Milne -- Funeral Blues / W. H. Auden -- 'Music, when soft voices die' / Percy Bysshe Shelley.

'As birds are fitted to the boughs' / Louis Simpson -- Farewell, Sweet Dust / Elinor Wylie -- Echo / Christina Rossetti -- The Kaleidoscope / Douglas Dunn -- Verses Written on Her Deathbed at Bath to Her Husband in London / Mark Monk -- A Widow's Hymn / George Wither -- 'Time does not bring relief' / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Tomorrows / Simon Bridges -- 'Never more will the wind' / H. D. -- Marriage and Death / E. J. Scovall -- Inseparable / Philip Bourke Marston -- 'Dear gentle soul, who went so soon away' / Luis de Camoens -- In Memoriam E. S. / George Barker -- Highland Graveyard / Kathleen Raine -- 'Another and another and another' / James Henry -- 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' / William Shakespeare -- 'By ways remote and distant waters sped' / Catullus -- 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore' / William Shakespeare -- Elegy / David Harsent.

I Wish You Enough / Anonymous -- While I Slept / Robert Francis -- 'Do not go gentle into that good night' / Dylan Thomas -- Coat / Vicki Feaver -- 'The rooms and days we wandered through' / Peter Porter -- The Friend / Alice Kavounas -- 'You can shed tears that she is gone' / Anonymous -- Inside Our Dreams / Jeanne Willis -- Traditional Gaelic Blessing -- 'To every thing there is a season' / Ecclesiastes -- 'Our revels now are ended' / William Shakespeare -- So Many Different Lengths of Time / Brian Patten -- 'Come, fill the Cup' / Omar Khayyam -- 'Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth' / Ecclesiastes -- 'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels' / Corinthians -- 'Death be not proud' / John Donne -- 'Home is where one starts from' / T. S. Eliot -- Dirge without Music / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- 'Don't tell me that I mourn too much' / Michael Rosen -- All Things Pass / Lao-Tzu -- Earth / Derek Walcott.

On Death / Kahlil Gibran -- Gone from My Sight / Henry Van Dyke -- The Wheel / Susan Stocker -- Live Your Life / Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation -- Prayer / St. Francis of Assisi -- Old Irish Toast -- For My Own Tomb-stone / Matthew Prior.

"When a loved one is being mourned, we often turn to poetry in order to express our deepest thoughts and feelings. The right poem, whether ancient or modern, will help us celebrate a life that has ended and, perhaps, allow us to find some comfort." "Yet it's not always easy to find the poem that's right for the occasion, especially at such a time of sorrow. As an actress, Julia Watson has sometimes been asked by friends for suggestions, and in this collection she offers over ninety poems and other short readings which could be read at a funeral or memorial service."--BOOK JACKET.