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Popular funeral poems
The popularity of the poetry in this collection of popular funeral poems is based on our own experiences and also includes data from various different sources that we have gathered over the years.
Popular Funeral Poems - Audio/Video
As you browse the poetry in popular funeral poems, you will find that several of the poems have either audio or audio/video of the poem attached to them, we hope this will help you to understand and appreciate that particular poem more, (sorry if that sounds patronising, it's not meant to be, we really want to help you and would like you to get the best experience you can from the popular funeral poems featured here).
Here are the direct access links to all the popular funeral poems that have audio/video attached:
- Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden
- Song - Christina Rossetti
- Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Mary Elizabeth Frye
- The Parting Glass - Irish Traditional
- Crossing The Bar - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- From Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
- Invictus - Unconquered - W.E. Henley
- The Psalm Of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Up-Hill - Christina Rossetti
- Remember - Christina Rossetti
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