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Just Do Your Best

Just Do Your Best “Just Do Your Best” is written by Collin McCarty. It’s not always easy to know which path to follow, which decision to make, or what to do. Life is a series of new horizons, new hopes, new days, and changes that come to you. And we...

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Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep “Do not stand at my grave and weep” is the first line and popular title of a bereavement poem of disputed authorship. The poem was popularized during the late 1970s thanks to a reading by John Wayne that inspired further readings on television. During...

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Life Without Friendship

Life Without Friendship Life Without Friendship is a poem about friendship and loneliness. Life without friendship …. is like the dawn without the sun. Life without friendship …. is like the sky without the moon when the evening has begun. Life without friendship …. is like a rose without rain....

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Do Not Go Gently Into That Goodnight

Do Not Go Gently Into That Goodnight “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953); it has been described as his most famous work. Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas...

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The Comfort Of Friends

The Comfort Of Friends They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same divine principle; the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither is...

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God Saw

God Saw God Saw is a short religious funeral poem, ideal for a eulogy or memorial poem. A poem about loved ones finding peace with God in Heaven. God Saw God saw the road was getting rough, The hill was hard to climb; He gently closed those loving eyes And...

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They Are Not Dead

They Are Not Dead “They Are Not Dead” is a popular funeral reading. They are not dead, Who leave us this great heritage of remembering joy. They still live in our hearts, In the happiness we knew, in the dreams we shared. They still breathe, In the lingering fragrance, windblown,...

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I Thought

I Thought I thought I saw your face today, in the sparkle of the morning sun. And then I heard the angel say, “Their work on earth is done.” I thought I heard your voice today, then laugh your hearty laugh. And then I heard the angel say, “There’s peace...

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When I Must Leave You

When I Must Leave You The poem When I Must Leave You is written by Helen Steiner Rice. Helen Steiner Rice (May 19, 1900 – April 23, 1981) was an American writer of both inspirational and Christian poetry. “When I must leave you for a little while Please do not grieve and...

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If Tears Could Build A Stairway

If Tears Could Build A Stairway If Tears Could Build A Stairway is a eulogy poem written by Karen White. If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane. I would walk right up to Heaven and bring you back again. No farewell words were spoken, No time to say “Goodbye”....