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The Best 10 Heaven & Angel Poems For Funerals
This assortment features Heaven & Angel Poems for Funerals, a compilation that includes angel poems for funerals, heaven poems for funerals, loved ones in heaven poems, together again in heaven quotes, and poems from heaven. These verses explore the comforting notion of a spiritual realm, offering reassurances of eternal love and the hope of reunion. Suitable for individuals chosen to read at a funeral, memorial or eulogy, the poems listed here provide a tender tribute to departed loved ones, evoking a sense of peace and eternal connection.

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1) At The Mid Hour Of Night
Author: Thomas Moore
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At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping,
I fly
To the lone vale we loved, when life shone warm in
Thine eye;
And I think oft, if spirits can steal from the regions
Of air
To revisit past scenes of delight, thou wilt come to
Me there
And tell me our love is remember'd even in the sky!
Then I sing the wild song it once was rapture to hear
When our voices, commingling, breathed like one on
The ear;
And as Echo far off through the vale my sad orison
Rolls,
I think, O my love! 'tis thy voice, from the Kingdom
Of Souls
Faintly answering still the notes that once were so dear.
The poem's mention of spirits, the sky, and the Kingdom of Souls evokes imagery related to heaven and angels, making it suitable for this category.
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2) God Saw You Getting Tired
Author: Rhonda Braswell
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God saw you getting tired
And a cure was not to be
So He put His arms around you
And whispered ‘Come with Me.’
With tearful eyes
We watched you suffer
And saw you fade away,
Although we loved you dearly
We could not make you stay.
A golden heart stopped beating,
Hard working hands at rest,
God broke our hearts to prove
He only takes the best.
It’s lonesome here without you,
We miss you more each day,
Life doesn’t seem the same
Since you’ve gone away.
When days are sad and lonely
And everything goes wrong,
We seem to hear you whisper
‘Cheer up and carry on.’
Each time we see your picture,
You seem to smile and say
‘Don’t cry, I’m in God’s keeping
We’ll meet again someday.’
You never said ‘I’m leaving’,
You never said goodbye,
You were gone before we knew it,
And only God knew why.
A million times we needed you,
A million times we cried,
If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.
In life we loved you dearly,
In death we love you still ,
In our hearts you hold a place,
That no one could ever fill.
It broke our hearts to lose you,
But you didn’t go alone,
For part of us went with you,
The day God took you home.
The poem's mention of spirits, the sky, and the Kingdom of Souls evokes imagery related to heaven and angels, making it suitable for this category.
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3) Annabel Lee
Author: Poe’s
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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
The poem refers to angels and Heaven multiple times, making it related to this category.
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4) I Never Left You Poem
Author: Melissa McKenzie
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I Never Left You
I watch you every day, I am always very near.
I know deep in your heart, you realize I am here.
I watch you while you sleep, in your bed at home.
I hear you when you speak to me, when you are on your own.
You cannot understand the reason why I’ve gone.
But I will never leave you I am there to keep you strong.
Talk to me, I hear you, though you may not see.
We share an unbroken bond that will always be.
Death will not keep us apart, for our love is forever.
Just remember me in your heart, and one day we will be together.
Live your life and live it full, don’t waste a single day.
Remember I am always with you every step of the way.
Although not explicitly mentioning heaven or angels, the poem's message that the deceased is watching over their loved ones suggests a heavenly presence.
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5) Remember Me - In Your Heart
Author: Margaret Mead
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To the living, I am gone,
To the sorrowful, I will never return,
To the angry, I was cheated,
But to the happy, I am at peace,
And to the faithful, I have never left.
I cannot speak, but I can listen.
I cannot be seen, but I can be heard.
So as you stand upon a shore gazing at a beautiful sea,
As you look upon a flower and admire its simplicity,
Remember me.
Remember me in your heart:
Your thoughts, and your memories,
Of the times we loved,
The times we cried,
The times we fought,
The times we laughed.
For if you always think of me, I will never have gone.
Although not explicitly mentioning heaven or angels, the poem conveys the idea of the deceased's ongoing presence in thoughts and memories, which aligns with the theme of heaven and angel poems.
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6) On Death
Author: Khalil Gibran
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You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Although it doesn't mention heaven or angels explicitly, this poem speaks to the spiritual journey after death, which aligns with the themes often found in this category.
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7) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Author: John Donne
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As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
The reference to souls and the continuity of love might be interpreted as an indirect reference to heaven or spiritual realms.
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8) Heaven's Fishing Hole
Author: Jill Eisnaugle
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For years, the riverbank was where
Your soul felt most at peace
Your heart was most content when there
With the fish and the geese.
But then, your spirit came to rest
Where angels chose to roam
And once equipped with ten-pound test
You made yourself at home.
The sky became your deep blue sea
The clouds became your shore
And there, for all eternity
You sat with friends galore.
Each angel was a fisherman
Who had traded his pole
For golden wings and a game plan
At Heaven’s Fishing Hole.
The poem describes the afterlife as a heavenly place filled with angels and a serene fishing hole.
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9) A Death-Bed
Author: James Aldrich
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Her suffering ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away,
In statue-like repose.
But when the sun in all his state
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through Glory's morning-gate,
And walked in Paradise!
The poem mentions "Glory's morning-gate" and "Paradise," which can be interpreted as references to heaven, making it related to Heaven & Angel poems for funerals.
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10) If Tomorrow Starts Without Me
Author: David Romano
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If tomorrow starts without me, and I’m not here to see,
If the sun should rise you find your eyes all filled with tears for me;
I wish so much you wouldn’t cry the way you did today,
While thinking of the many things we didn’t get to say.
I know how much you love me, as much as I love you
And each time that you think of me, I know you’ll miss me too.
But when tomorrow starts without me please try to understand,
That an angel came and called my name and took me by the hand.
He said my place was ready, in heaven far above
And that I’d have to leave behind all those I dearly love.
But as I turned and walked away a tear fell from my eye.
For all my life I’d always thought, I didn’t want to die.
I had so much to live for, so much left yet to do.
It seemed almost impossible that I was leaving you.
I thought of all the yesterdays the good ones and the bad.
I thought of all the love we shared, and all the fun we had.
If I could relive yesterday, just even for a while,
I’d say goodbye and kiss you and maybe see you smile.
But then I fully realized that this could never be,
For emptiness and memories would take the place of me.
When I thought of worldly things I might miss come tomorrow
I thought of you and when I did my heart was filled with sorrow.
When I walked through heavens gates I felt so much at home.
God looked down and smiled at me from his great golden throne
He said, “This is eternity and all I’ve promised you”
Today your life on earth has passed but here life starts anew.
I promise no tomorrow, but today will always last
And since each day is the same there’s no longing for the past.
You have been so faithful so trusting and so true.
Though there were times you did some things you knew you shouldn’t do.
You have been forgiven and now at last you’re free.
So won’t you come and take my hand and share my life with me?
So when tomorrow starts with out me don’t think we’re far apart,
For every time you think of me, I’m right here in your heart.
The poem speaks about heaven and angels, specifically an angel leading the speaker to heaven, making it fit this category.
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See 14 more Heaven & Angel Poems For Funerals
At The Mid Hour Of Night
God Saw You Getting Tired
Annabel Lee
I Never Left You Poem
Remember Me - In Your Heart
On Death
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Heaven's Fishing Hole
A Death-Bed
If Tomorrow Starts Without Me
Softly Woo Away Her Breath
All Things Will Die
Death Is Nothing At All
When Robins Are Near Poem
To Those Whom I Love & Those Who Love Me
The Lord's My Shepherd - Psalm 23
The Candle
Precious Flower
If I Should Go Tomorrow
I’M There Within Your Heart
Don't Cry For Me Today
Don't Cry For Me Poem
Come To Me When I'M Dying
An Angel Brushed My Shoulder
God Saw You Getting Tired
Annabel Lee
I Never Left You Poem
Remember Me - In Your Heart
On Death
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Heaven's Fishing Hole
A Death-Bed
If Tomorrow Starts Without Me
Softly Woo Away Her Breath
All Things Will Die
Death Is Nothing At All
When Robins Are Near Poem
To Those Whom I Love & Those Who Love Me
The Lord's My Shepherd - Psalm 23
The Candle
Precious Flower
If I Should Go Tomorrow
I’M There Within Your Heart
Don't Cry For Me Today
Don't Cry For Me Poem
Come To Me When I'M Dying
An Angel Brushed My Shoulder
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