'What the caterpillar perceives is the end, to the butterfly is just the beginning' 
Death Quotes From Poetry
All the quotes in this collection (depending upon circumstances) are suitable to be used as part of a eulogy speech.
| So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered to the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death. W. E. Henley - Poem |
For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Poem |
Look for me when the tide is high And the gulls are wheeling overhead When the autumn wind sweeps the cloudy sky And one by one the leaves are shed Iris Hesselden - Poem |
| Don't cry for me now I'm gone For I am in the land of song There is no pain, there is no fear So dry away that silent tear Unknown - Poem |
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Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall On gentle hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Nancy Byrd Turner - Poem |
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To them, to us, to me. N. Taylor - Poem |
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| And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poem |
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead. Lucretius - Poem |
Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. William Shakespeare - Poem |
| We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae - Poem |
Though wise men at their end know dark is right. Because their words have forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Dylan Thomas - Poem |
I know that I've been blessed To have been one who's life he touched With warmth so infinite. Unknown - Poem |
| Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. Dylan Thomas - Poem He whose course is sped! He has gone home - to God, His Father Unknown - Poem |
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The life that I have Is all that I have, And the life that I have is yours. Leo Marks - Poem Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden - Poem |
| Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die. Mary Elizabeth Frye - Poem |
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; William Shakespeare - Poem |
I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul W.E. Henley - Poem |
| Just close your eyes and think of me I will not be far away. Judy Burnette - Poem |
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; John Donne - Poem |
Good-night; ensured release, imperishable peace, A.E. Houseman - Poem |
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I'd like to leave an after glow of smiles when life is done. I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. Unknown - Poem |
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| Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill. R.L. Stevenson - Poem |
So deep in love am I; And I will love thee still, my dear, Though all the seas gone dry. Robert Burns - Poem |
Sometime at eve when the water is low I shall slip my moorings and sail away Elizabeth Clark Hardy - Poem |
| Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, Robert Browning - Poem Let airplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message "He is Dead", W.H. Auden - Poem |
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Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Poem There's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. Rupert Brooke - Poem |
| Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. Amelia Josephine Barr - Poem Love of life at times requires death Nicholas Gordon - Poem |
Not how did he die, but how did he live? Not what did he gain, but what did he give? Unknown - Poem Why smile in such sadness? It's because of the memories Gloria Matthew - Poem |
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poem God has you in His keeping I have you in my heart. Unknown - Poem |
