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Stillborn Poems, Quotes and Funeral Readings for Infant Loss

Posted 15/03/sixteen in Bereavement Resource

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This is a selection of poems, readings and quotes to give condolement and support to anyone who has lost a baby to stillbirth, miscarriage or whatsoever other illness. As a mother, my center breaks when I compile this list, but we accept many clients who come to united states deeply bereaved and are then grateful for the data they have plant on our web log, and I hope that this list of poems and quotes may not only provide some pocket-size amount of comfort simply may also provide ideas for an epitaph or headstone quote. It is always worth waiting at least a year before even thinking about a memorial, and often several years will go past before you are able to face the idea of commissioning a memorial. Do not feel hurried, take your time, and be kind to yourself.

Hannah Wessel

The best and nigh beautiful things in the world cannot exist seen or even touched. They must be felt with the centre.

Helen Keller

A butterfly lights abreast united states

A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam, and for a
brief moment its celebrity and beauty belong to our world:
but and so it flies again. And though we wish information technology could
take stayed, we feel so lucky to accept seen it.

Author Unknown.

Wherever they get, and whatsoever happens to them on the mode, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

A.A. Milne, endmost lines of Winnie-The-Pooh

Those nosotros take held in our arms for a picayune while, nosotros hold in our hearts forever.

from The Prophet

When you are sorrowful look once again into your heart, and y'all shall run into that in truth yous are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Khalil Gibran

Then become and run free

So become and run free with the angels
Dance around the golden clouds
For the lord has chosen you to be with him
And we should feel nil but proud
Although he has taken you from usa
And our hurting a lifetime will terminal
Your memory will never escape united states of america
Just make us glad for the fourth dimension we did accept
Your confront volition always be hidden
Deep inside our hearts
Each precious moment you gave us
Shall never, ever depart
And then go and run free with the angels
As they sing so tenderly
And please be certain to tell them
To take good intendance of yous for me

Author unknown.

A moment in our arms...a lifetime in our hearts.

Family Chain

Nosotros lilliputian knew that forenoon,
God was going to call your proper noun.
In life we loved you dearly,
In death we do the same.

It broke our hearts to lose you,
You did not go lone,
For role of usa went with y'all,
the mean solar day God chosen yous home.

You left us cute memories,
Your dear is withal our guide
And though we cannot see yous,
Y'all are ever by our side.

Our family concatenation is cleaved
And nothing seems the same
Merely every bit God calls us one by one
The concatenation will link over again.

Ron Tranmer

Think of Me

When you're feeling distressing or a little blue,
Wait effectually and you'll meet I'm hither with y'all

I'm the bird who soars so high above
I'1000 the one who filled your eye with beloved

Author Unknown

Within Our Dreams

Where practise people go to when they die?
Somewhere down beneath or in the sky?
'I can't be sure,' said Grandpa, 'only it seems
They simply prepare dwelling house inside our dreams.'

Jeanne Willis

Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of organized religion; it is the
toll of dearest.

P'u - Hua Fei Hua

A flower and not a bloom; of mist and however not of mist;
At midnight she was there; she went as daylight shone.
She came and for a piddling while was like a dream of leap,
And and then, equally morning clouds that vanish traceless,
she was gone

Po Chu - I

Each new life... No matter how fragile or brief... Forever changes the world.

Look for me in Rainbows

Time for me to go now, I won't say bye;
Wait for me in rainbows, way upward in the sky.
In the morning sunrise when all the world is new,
Just look for me and love me, as you know I loved you.

Fourth dimension for me to go out you, I won't say goodbye;
Look for me in rainbows, high upward in the sky.
In the evening sunset, when all the world is through,
Just look for me and love me, and I'll exist close to you.

It won't be forever, the day will come and then
My loving artillery volition concur you, when nosotros meet again.

Time for us to part now, nosotros won't say farewell;
Expect for me in rainbows, shining in the sky.
Every waking moment, and all your whole life through
Just look for me and love me, equally you know I loved yous.

Just wish me to be nigh you,
And I'll be there with you.

Music and lyrics: Conn Bernard

Beloved bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Corinthians 13:7-8

Mind...can you lot hear it?
A heavenly choir sings.
Another little affections
Merely got her set of wings.
In that location's joy and there is shouting
As she steps through heaven'south gate.
They all lined upwards to greet her.
All the angels gloat.
Her eyes are shining brightly
And a smiling lights her face up,
As she receives her halo
And takes her special place.
She'southward the smallest little angel
With the biggest kind of love.
She'south wiser than an owl
And more than peaceful than a dove.
And though in that location's joy in heaven,
In that location is sorrow downwards below.
broken hearts are crying
Since they had to let her get.
So she watches them from sky
But she knows the time will come,
They volition join their precious daughter
When their work on earth is washed

Author Unknown

These are my footprints

These are my footprints, so perfect and so modest.
These tiny footprints, never touched the footing at all.
Non one tiny footprint, for now I take my wings.
These tiny footprints were meant for other things.
You will hear my tiny footprints, in the patter of the rain.
Gentle drops like angels tears, of joy and not from hurting.
You will see my tiny footprints, in each butterflies' lazy dance.
I'll let you know I'm with y'all, if you lot give me just a chance.
You will see my tiny footprints, in the rustle of the leaves.
I will whisper names into the wind, and call each one that grieves.
Most of all, these tiny footprints, are found in mummy's centre,
'crusade even though I'm gone at present, we'll never truly part."

Writer Unknown

The mention of my child'due south proper noun may bring tears to my optics, merely it never fails to bring music to my ears. If you are really my friend, let me hear the beautiful music of his name. It soothes my broken eye and sings to my soul.

from On The Beach At Night

Weep non, kid,
Weep not, my darling,
With these kisses let me remove your tears,
The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,
They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch once more some other night, the Pleiades shall sally,
They are immortal, all those stars both silver and golden shall shine out again,
The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
The vast immortal suns and the long-indelible pensive moons shall again shine.

Walt Whitman

If Tears Could Build A Stairway

If tears could build a stairway
And memories were a lane
Nosotros would walk right up to Heaven
And bring you dorsum over again

No farewell words were spoken
No time to say good day
You were gone before nosotros knew it
And but God knows why

Our hearts still ache in sadness
And hole-and-corner tears still period
What it meant to lose you lot
No one will ever know

Only know we know you want us
To mourn for y'all no more
To retrieve all the happy times
Life notwithstanding has much in store

Since you'll never be forgotten
We pledge to you today
A hallowed identify within our hearts
Is where you'll always stay

Author Unknown

Fingerprints

Your fingerprints are on my centre.
Fingerprints that teach me about caring.
Fingerprints that teach me about dearest.
Fingerprints that teach me nigh courage.
Fingerprints that teach me virtually hope.
Fingerprints that bring me closer to my loved ones.
Fingerprints that bring me closer to myself.
In the fourth dimension I cared for you my whole life changed --
never to exist the same over again
All this from tiny fingerprints that touch my heart.
Y'all volition live in my eye forever - never to exist forgotten.
I will always love you.
You lot are my kid.

Tom Krause

Most people only dream of angels, I held ane in my artillery

An Angel Never Dies

Don't let them say I wasn't built-in,
That something stopped my heart
I felt each tender squeeze yous gave,
I've loved you from the start.

Although my body yous can't hold,
It doesn't mean I'm gone,
This world was worthy, non of me,
God chose that I move on.

I know the pain that drowns your soul,
What y'all are forced to face up.
Yous have my word, I'll make full your arms,
Anytime we volition embrace.

You'll hear that it was "meant to exist,
God doesn't make mistakes,"
But that won't soften your worst blow,
Or make your heart not ache.

I'k watching over all you do,
Another child you'll comport,
Believe me when I say to you,
That I am always there.

There will come a fourth dimension, I hope you,
When you will hold my hand,
Stroke my face up and kiss my lips,
And then yous'll understand.

Although I've never breathed your air,
Or gazed into your eyes
That doesn't mean I never "was"
An angel never dies.

Author Unknown

A One thousand thousand Times

You never said I'grand leaving
Yous never said adept-farewell
Yous were gone earlier I knew it
And but God knew why

A million times nosotros've needed you,
A 1000000 times nosotros've cried.
If beloved lonely could've saved y'all,
You never would have died.

In life we loved y'all dearly,
In death we dear you however.
In our hearts y'all agree a place,
No i else will ever fill.

It broke our hearts to lose you lot,
But you didn't go lone.
Role of us went with you lot,
The solar day God took y'all home

Author Unknown

Once in a while
Children come into this world
So special that the angels
Need these precious ones
To sing in Heaven
And low-cal up the world from above

Author Unknown

Dear Child in Heaven

You were a blessing to us all
you were a special child.
And we're so glad God sent you
to be with united states of america awhile.

You lot filled our home with happiness
and fabricated our life consummate.
The time we had with you
was far likewise brusk, only oh so sweet.

Some things we don't find easy
to accept or sympathise.
Until we realize they're part of
our Creator's perfect program.

Now it comforts u.s. to know
you're with the angels up above.
While in our hearts we hold you close
Surrounded by our dearest.

Don't Cry for me

Don't cry for me now I have died, for I'yard still hither I'thou by your side,
My body's gone but my soul is here, delight don't shed some other tear,
I am still here I'chiliad all around, just my body lies in the ground.
I am the snowflake that kisses your olfactory organ,
I am the frost, that nips your toes.
I am the lord's day, bringing you lot light,
I am the star, shining so bright.
I am the rain, refreshing the world,
I am the laughter, I am the mirth.
I am the bird, up in the sky,
I am the deject, that's globe-trotting by.
I am the thoughts, within your head,
While I'chiliad nevertheless there, I tin't be expressionless.

Author unknown

I Did Not Die

Do not stand up at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I exercise not slumber.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's pelting,
When you awaken in the morning'due south hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Practise non stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I did non dice.

Author Unknown

I Remember You

The globe may never detect
If a rosebud doesn't flower:
Or even break to wonder if the petals fall too shortly.

But every life that ever forms,
Or e'er comes to be
Touches the World in some small manner
For all eternity.

The little ones we longed for
Were swiftly hither and gone.
Just the love that was then planted
Is a lite that nevertheless shines on.

And though our arms are empty,
Our hearts know what to do
Every beating of my centre says
"I Remember You"

Author Unknown

Don't think of him as gone away

Don't call back of him every bit gone away,
His Journeying's just begun.
Life holds and so many facets,
This earth is only one.

But think of him as resting,
From the sorrows and the tears,
In a identify of warmth and comfort
Where there are no days and years.

Thinking how he must exist wishing
That we could know today,
How zip but our sorrows
Can really pass away.

And think of him as living
In the hearts of those he touched,
For nix loved is ever lost
And he was loved then much.

Ellen Brenneman

Honey is not a thing to understand.

Love is not a thing to feel.
Dear is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to get
And eternally exist.

Sri Chinmoy

An angel in the volume of life wrote down my infant's birth, then whispered as she shut the book… "too beautiful for Earth"

Gaelic Blessing

May the road ascension up to see you.
May the current of air exist always at your dorsum.
May the sun polish warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we encounter again,
may God hold you in the palm of His mitt.

Traditional

Tiny Angel

Tiny Angel rest your wings
Sit with me for awhile.
How I long to agree your paw,
And run into your tender smile.
Tiny Angel, look at me,
I want this image clear...
That I will forget your precious face
Is my biggest fear.
Tiny Angel can you tell me,
Why yous have gone away?
Y'all weren't here for very long...
Why is it, yous couldn't stay?
Tiny Angel shook his caput,
"These things I practise not know...
But I exercise know that you dear me,
And that I love you so."

Goodnight

Goodnight my dear loved ones
It was non meant to be
I am now to alive my life
In a state y'all tin can't run across

This land is very beautiful
All sunshine and no rain
Where everybody's healthy
And no one can feel hurting

You lot see, Sky like Globe needs children
To laugh and sing and play
To be loved by all around them
Bringing joy to every twenty-four hours

So now yous know I'm happy
Growing up like you want me to
Please mention my name with a grinning
And I'll send all my love to you lot

Remember I'll always be near you lot
For your kid I'll always remain
So live your life knowing I care
And I'll exist waiting when we see again.

Author Unknown

There Is A Special Affections

There is a special Angel in Sky
that is part of me.
Information technology is not where I wanted him
but where God wanted him to be.
He was here simply only a moment
similar a night time shooting star.
And though he is in Heaven
he isn't very far.
He touched the heart of many
like simply an Angel can do.
And so I send this special message
to the Heaven up above.
Please have intendance of my Angel
and send him all my love.

Author Unknown

You Were Taken On Angel'due south Wings

You lot were taken on angel'southward wings
As yous sweetly and quietly slept
And returned to heaven before we knew
That you had fifty-fifty left

Our hearts are heavy and sorrowed
That our time with yous was so cursory
For you were our souvenir of heaven'due south light
That is now replaced with grief

Just not and then much that we won't exist grateful
For every second that you lot were hither
Y'all filled our hearts with and so much joy
Treasured memories we'll hold forever dear

And though we weren't blest to run across you grow upwardly
We were blest to encounter you smile
And to agree y'all lovingly in our artillery
For just a little while

Even though you're in Heaven now
We trust you're non too far away
To exist close to us when we long for you almost
For a office of our family you'll always stay

We'll look forrad to the day when you're with u.s. again
When the happiness that has left usa will never once again office
For when yous left on affections'due south wings
You lot took with you the deepest dearest in our hearts

Author Unknown

God Needed You More

God Needed You lot More than
I wanted y'all so bad,
God needed you more.

I tried everything
To keep you here,
God needed you more.

I cried and near died,
The day you came,
God needed YOU more than.

It breaks my heart
I tin can no longer concur yous
God needed you lot more.

We will meet once more, someday,
But correct at present, God needs you lot more.
I will continue to love you,
I will grieve your loss,
I volition always Try to remember…
God needed yous more.

Nicole Lothridge

Darling Swept Abroad

No stain was on her little heart;
Sin had not entered there;
And innocence slept sweetly on;
That pale white brow and so fair.
She was too pure for this cold World;
Likewise beautiful to stay;
And then God's holy affections bore;
Our darling ane abroad.

Author Unknown

Love in Every Tear

O precious, tiny, sweet fiddling i
You will always exist to me.
So perfect, pure, and innocent
Just as you lot were meant to be.
We dreamed of you and of your life
And all that information technology would be.
We waited and longed for you to come.
And join our family.
We never had the adventure to play,
To laugh, to stone, to wiggle.
We long to agree yous, bear upon you at present
And listen to you giggle.
I'll ever exist your female parent,
He'll always exist your dad.
You will always be our child,
The child that we had.
But at present you're gone…but yet you're here
We'll sense y'all everywhere.
Y'all are our sorrow and our joy,
At that place'south love in every tear.
Just know our love goes deep and strong
Nosotros'll forget you never
The child we had, but never had
And nonetheless will have forever!

Author Unknown

Hers was the lamb shy early spring,
the gentle bud half opening,
but now unpetalled.
The primrose smile, the fairy ring
of laughter light nigh her lips.

Hers was the youth of lilliputian things,
warm trust in all small feathered wings
simply at present unfolded.
Wide-eyed as loving hands made strings
of daisies for her soft hairs crown.

Hers was springtime magic, bringing
music with stake harebells ringing
now an elegy.
Hers the countless summer singing
ours the winter of her going.

Author Unknown

We Only Wanted You

They say memories are golden
Well peradventure that is true.
We never wanted memories,
We only wanted you.

A million times we needed you,
A million times we have cried.
If dearest alone could have saved you,
You would have never died.

In life we loved yous dearly,
In decease we love you all the same.
In our eye y'all hold a special place,
That none will ever fill.

It broke our heart to lose you,
Just y'all did not get alone.
For all our love went with you
The solar day God chosen you domicile.

Author Unknown

The Cord

We are continued, my kid and I,
by an invisible string non seen past the eye.
Information technology's non similar the cord that connects us at birth
this string can't be seen by whatsoever on earth.
This cord does it's work correct from the showtime
it binds us together fastened to my heart
I know that it's there though no one can come across
the invisible string from my child to me.
The strength of this cord it'southward hard to describe
it can't exist destroyed information technology can't be denied.
Information technology's stronger than whatsoever cord man could create
it withstands the exam, can hold any weight
And though you are gone, though you lot're not here with me
the cord is nevertheless there merely no one can see
It pulls at my heart, I am bruised...I am sore
but this string is my lifeline as never earlier.
I'm thankful that my heart connects us this way
a mother and child, death can't take it abroad!!

from Martial Cadenza

Just this night I saw once more depression in the sky
The evening star, at the commencement of winter, the star
That in spring will crown every western horizon,
Again . . . as if it came back, as if life came back,
Not in a afterward son, a different daughter, another place,
But every bit if evening found u.s. young, yet immature,
Still walking in a present of our own.

Wallace Stevens

The child was a souvenir. The grief does not smother the gratitude. And death..is not the end. Nosotros grieve, only non as those who accept no promise. Yet none says that since decease is non the end, we should not grieve. Though grief does non smother promise, neither does hope smother grief.

Nicholas Wolterstorff, from This Incomplete One

On Angel'south Wings

On Angel's Wings you were taken away,
But in my center you will always stay.
I volition hear your whisper in the tallest trees,
Experience your love in the gentle cakewalk.
And when I observe I miss yous the most,
Within our beautiful memories
I will hold you close.
You are an angel watching over me
with the comfort and blessings you lot bring,
Yous embrace my heart and agree it close,
Forever on Angel's Wings

Crailin Hardy

from For the Fallen

They shall grow non old, as nosotros that are left abound old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
Nosotros will call up them.

Laurence Binyon

Always

Nosotros think about you lot always,
we talk about you still,
yous have never been forgotten,
and you never volition.
We concord y'all close within our hearts,
and there y'all will remain,
to walk with us throughout our lives
until nosotros come across over again.

Author Unknown

Never

I'll never get to see your precious face;
or whisper words to make you feel safe
I'll never go to agree you lot tight
when you tin't sleep at night
I'll never become to sing to you a sweet lullaby,
to calm you lot down when you cry
I'll never go to fall asleep with you in my artillery,
all bundled in a blanket to keep yous warm
I'll never get to hear you express mirth and giggle
or come across you little toes wiggle
There are many things I will never get to do,
but the hardest is non being with you.

K. Fugleberg

Early Decease

She passed away like morning dew
Earlier the sun was high;
And then brief her time, she scarcely knew
The meaning of a sigh.

Equally round the rose its soft perfume,
Sweet love around her floated;
Admired she grew - while mortal doom
Crept on, un-feared, united nations-noted.

Love was her guardian angel here,
But love to death resigned her;
Though love was kind, why should we fearfulness
Simply holy decease is kinder?

Hartley Coleridge

Don't Think of Them every bit Gone Away

Don't recall of them equally gone abroad,
Their journey has just begun.
Life holds so many facets,
This globe is only ane.

Only remember of them as resting,
From the sorrows and the tears.
In a place of warmth and comfort,
Where there are no days or years.

Call back of how they must be wishing,
That nosotros could know today,
How cipher but our sadness
Can really pass away.

And remember of them as living,
In the hearts of those they touched.
For zero loved is ever lost,
And they were loved then much!

Author Unknown

Children Who Dice Are Non Really Gone

Children who dice are not actually gone,
But go to a place that is something like home,
Where they sleep the deep sleep, as repose as stone,
Until nosotros tin join them when our lives are done.

Children who dice are not really dead,
But merely similar good children tucked into bed,
Wait the long await while we get ahead
Till our tales are all told and our tears are all shed.

Children who die feel no pleasure or pain
In the identify where they await till they see usa over again,
And all of usa dance in a earth washed with rain
Where the sun shines and so brightly no sorrows remain.

Nicholas Gordon

Too Before long

This was a life that had inappreciably begun
No time to notice your place in the Sunday
No fourth dimension to do all you could have done
But we loved you enough for a lifetime

No time to savour the earth and its wealth
No fourth dimension to take life downwards off the shelf
No time to sing the songs of yourself
Though you had enough honey for a lifetime

Those who alive long endure sadness and tears
Only you'll never suffer the sorrowing years
No expose, no anger, no hatred, no fears
Just honey - Just love - In your lifetime.

Mary Yarnall

How long with the hurting last?

How long volition the pain final? " a anxious mourner
asked me. 'All the rest of your Life.'
I accept to answer truthfully.

We never quite forget. No matter how many
years pass, nosotros remember.

The loss of a loved 1 is like a major operation.
Function of united states is removed, and we take a scar
for the rest of our lives.
As years go by, we manage.

There are things to do, people to care for, tasks that
phone call for full attention.
But the pain is withal there, not far below the surface.

We see a face that looks familiar,
hear a voice that echoes, encounter a photograph in someone'south
album, see a landscape that once we saw together, and it
seems every bit though a knife were in the wound again.

But not so painfully
And mixed with joy likewise
Because remembering a happy time is not all sorrow
information technology brings happiness with it

How long will the hurting final?
All the residual of your life
Simply the things to recall is that
not only the hurting will terminal only,
the blest memories besides

Tears are proof of life
the more love, the more than tears
If this be truthful, and so how could nosotros ever ask
That pain cease all together
For then the memory of beloved would become with it
the pain of grief is the cost we pay for dear!

Megan Dugan

A Child of Mine

I'll lend you lot for a little while
A child of mine God said
For you to love while he lives
And mourn for when he's dead

It may be 6 or seven years
Or twenty 2 or three
But will you 'til I call him dorsum
Take care of him for Me

He'll bring his charms to gladden you
And should his stay be brief
You'll e'er have his memories
As a solace for your grief

I cannot promise he will stay
Every bit all from globe return
Merely there are lessons taught downward in that location
That I want this kid to learn

I've looked this whole world over
In my search for teachers true
And from the throngs that crowd life's lane
I have chosen you lot

At present will y'all give him all your dearest
Nor recall labour vain
Nor detest Me when I come up to take
This lent child dorsum again?

I fancied that I heard them say
Dear Lord Thy Will exist done
For all the joys Thy child will bring
The gamble of grief we'll run

Nosotros'll shelter him with ternderness
We'll love him while we may
And just for having loved him
Forever grateful stay

But should the angels come for him
Much sooner than nosotros planned
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes
And endeavor, to understand

Edgar Guest

Fluff Up The Clouds

Phone call heaven at that place's an Angel
That's coming dwelling house today.
Our hearts are pitiful and broken
Because he couldn't stay.

Fluff upwards the clouds and lay him
Gently in your care.
Place the tiny halo
Softly in his hair.

Our artillery volition never hold him once again
Our lips will never osculation
The velvet of his cheeks over again
We were non prepared for this.

In our hearts volition exist a tiny hole
Where always y'all volition exist.
Because we loved you so much
Our hearts volition ever grieve.

Author Unknown

I Exercise Not Think My Song Will End

I do non think my song will end
While flowers, grass and trees
Abound with birds and collywobbles
For I am one with these.

And I believe my voice will audio
Upon the whispering wind
And so long as even i remains
Amid those I telephone call "friend."

I shall remain in hearts and minds
Of loved ones that I knew,
And in the rocks and hills and streams
Because I love those, as well.

So long every bit love and hope and dreams
Abide in earth and sky,
Cry not for me, though I be gone.
I shall non really dice.

Johnny Hathcock

Little Footprints

How very softly y'all tiptoed into my world.
Nearly silently you stayed,
but what an imprint your footsteps
have left upon my heart
A heart of gold stopped beating
My baby girl's eyes at rest
God bankrupt our hearts to show,
He only takes the all-time.
God knew she had to leave us,
merely she did non go lonely.
For part of u.s.a. went with her,
the twenty-four hour period He took her home.
To some she is forgotten,
to others…just the past,
just to us who loved and lost her
memories will always final.

Dorothy Ferguson

How Practice I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

How practice I dear thee? Let me count the ways.
I dear thee to the depth and latitude and height
My soul tin reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I dear thee to the level of every twenty-four hour period's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, equally men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood'due south faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall merely love thee better later on decease.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861

Little Angels

When God calls little children to dwell with Him above,
We mortals sometimes question the wisdom of His honey.
For no heartache compares with the death of i small child
Who does so much to make our earth, seem wonderful and mild
Perhaps God tires of calling the aged to his fold,
So He picks a rosebud before information technology can grow old.

God knows how much we demand them, and and then He takes but few
To make the land of Heaven more cute to view.
Assertive this is difficult still somehow we must attempt,
The saddest give-and-take mankind knows will always exist "Good day."
So when a little kid departs, we who are left behind
Must realize God loves children, Angels are hard to find.

Author Unknown

from The Prelude

..whether we be young or sometime,
Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only at that place;
With promise it is, hope that can never dice,
Effort, and expectation, and desire,
And something evermore about to be.

William Wordsworth

Everything Passes And Vanishes

Everything passes and vanishes;
Everything leaves its trace;
And often you see in a pace
What you could not see in a face.

William Allingham

Ane Person

Sometimes when i person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

from Dombey and Son

And can it exist that in a world and so full and busy, the loss of one weak brute makes a void in any heart, then wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of vast eternity tin can fill information technology up!

Charles Dickens

from Romeo and Juliet

When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world volition be in beloved with dark
And pay no worship to the garish dominicus.

William Shakespeare

2 Headed boy

Ii headed boy
There is no reason to grieve
The world that you need is wrapped in aureate silver sleeves
Left beneath Christmas trees in the snow
And I will have yous and get out you lot alone
Watching spirals of white softly menstruation
Over your eyelids and all yous did
Will await until the point when you let go

Lyrics past Neutral Milk Hotel

Holy Innocents

Sleep, little baby, sleep;
The holy Angels love thee,
And guard thy bed, and proceed
A blessed picket above thee.
No spirit tin can come near
Nor evil fauna to harm thee:
Slumber, sweet, devoid of fearfulness
Where nothing need alarm thee.

The love which doth not sleep,
The eternal Arms around thee:
The shepherd of the sheep
In perfect love hath found thee.
Sleep through the holy nighttime,
Christ-kept from snare and sorrow,
Until m wake to calorie-free
And love and warmth to-morrow.

Christina Rossetti

But a picayune while

We were together
Just a niggling while,
And we believed our dearest
Would concluding a thousand years.

Yakamochi

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