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If you are searching for a poem to read at a memorial service or are simply looking for some words of comfort perhaps these will help you in your loss.

1. Bread and Music by Conrad Aiken

   simple things hold the memories of our loved ones

2. Prospice by Robert Browning
3. Beautiful Hands by Emma M. H. Gates
4. Open, Time by Loise Imogen Guiney
5. Calm on the Bosom of our God by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

   They that have seen thy look in death
   No more may fear to die.
   

6. A Song of Faith by Josiah Gilbert Holland
7. The Exequy by Ben King
8. Parted by Alice Meynell
9. Time Does Not Bring Relief by Edna St. Vincent Millay
10. L'Envoi by John G. Neihardt
11. A Happy Man by Edwin Arlington Robinson
12. Remember by Christina Rossetti

    Better by far you should forget and smile
    Than that you should remember and be sad
    

13. Losses by Carl Sandburg
14. Requiescant by Frederic George Scott
15. Death of an Infant by Lydia H. Sigourney
16. Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    sailing as a metaphor for life (and death)

17. Asleep by William Winter

    And he said, "My love was weary--God bless her! she's asleep."