| Description |
ix, 108 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
'Remember me when I am gone away' / Christina Rossetti -- Heaven-Haven / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Life Goes On / Joyce Grenfell -- Living Each Day / Lisa Kitson -- 'Death is nothing at all' / Henry Scott Holland -- Remember Me / Anonymous -- 'I'm here for a short visit only' / Noel Coward -- 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead' / William Shakespeare -- If Death is Kind / Sara Teasdale -- Fare Well / Walter de la Mare -- When I Died / Jo Shapcott -- 'Because I could not stop for death' / Emily Dickinson -- 'I see myself now at the end of my journey' / John Bunyan -- Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson -- 'I thought I'd write my own obituary' / Simon Armitage -- Think of Me Then / Asa James -- The New Path / Oscar Beynon -- Footprints in the Sand / Anonymous -- The Book / Paul Meadows -- The Legacy / Sarah-Jane Brooks -- 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' / John Keats |
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When I Have Fears / Noel Coward -- A Song of Living / Amelia Josephine Burr -- 'I should like to be buried in a summer forest' / Helen Dunmore -- 'I would not have a god come in' / Sara Teasdale -- I've Made Out a Will / Simon Armitage -- Coda / Dorothy Parker -- Rest / Alan Curtis -- Prayer / Thomas Merton -- 'You must not shut the night inside you' / Friedrich Ruckert -- Prayer for the Little Daughter between Death and Burial / Diana Scott -- Epitaph on a Child / Thomas Gray -- On the Death of a Child / D. J. Enright -- Four Candles / Anonymous -- Too Soon / Mary Yarnall -- Requiescat / Oscar Wilde -- 'Promise you won't forget about me, ever' / A. A. Milne -- Funeral Blues / W. H. Auden -- 'Music, when soft voices die' / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- 'As birds are fitted to the boughs' / Louis Simpson -- Farewell, Sweet Dust / Elinor Wylie |
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Echo / Christina Rossetti -- The Kaleidoscope / Douglas Dunn -- Verses Written on Her Deathbed at Bath to Her Husband in London / Mark Monk -- A Widow's Hymn / George Wither -- 'Time does not bring relief' / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Tomorrows / Simon Bridges -- 'Never more will the wind' / H. D. -- Marriage and Death / E. J. Scovall -- Inseparable / Philip Bourke Marston -- 'Dear gentle soul, who went so soon away' / Luis de Camoens -- In Memoriam E. S. / George Barker -- Highland Graveyard / Kathleen Raine -- 'Another and another and another' / James Henry -- 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' / William Shakespeare -- 'By ways remote and distant waters sped' / Catullus -- 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore' / William Shakespeare -- Elegy / David Harsent -- I Wish You Enough / Anonymous -- While I Slept / Robert Francis -- 'Do not go gentle into that good night' / Dylan Thomas |
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Vicki Feaver -- 'The rooms and days we wandered through' / Peter Porter -- The Friend / Alice Kavounas -- 'You can shed tears that she is gone' / Anonymous -- Inside Our Dreams / Jeanne Willis -- Traditional Gaelic Blessing -- 'To every thing there is a season' / Ecclesiastes -- 'Our revels now are ended' / William Shakespeare -- So Many Different Lengths of Time / Brian Patten -- 'Come, fill the Cup' / Omar Khayyam -- 'Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth' / Ecclesiastes -- 'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels' / Corinthians -- 'Death be not proud' / John Donne -- 'Home is where one starts from' / T. S. Eliot -- Dirge without Music / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- 'Don't tell me that I mourn too much' / Michael Rosen -- All Things Pass / Lao-Tzu -- Earth / Derek Walcott -- On Death / Kahlil Gibran -- Gone from My Sight / Henry Van Dyke -- The Wheel / Susan Stocker |
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Live Your Life / Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation -- Prayer / St. Francis of Assisi -- Old Irish Toast -- For My Own Tomb-stone / Matthew Prior.'Remember me when I am gone away' / Christina Rossetti -- Heaven-Haven / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Life Goes On / Joyce Grenfell -- Living Each Day / Lisa Kitson -- 'Death is nothing at all' / Henry Scott Holland -- Remember Me / Anonymous -- 'I'm here for a short visit only' / Noel Coward -- 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead' / William Shakespeare -- If Death is Kind / Sara Teasdale -- Fare Well / Walter de la Mare -- When I Died / Jo Shapcott -- 'Because I could not stop for death' / Emily Dickinson -- 'I see myself now at the end of my journey' / John Bunyan -- Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson -- 'I thought I'd write my own obituary' / Simon Armitage -- Think of Me Then / Asa James |
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The New Path / Oscar Beynon -- Footprints in the Sand / Anonymous -- The Book / Paul Meadows -- The Legacy / Sarah-Jane Brooks -- 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' / John Keats -- When I Have Fears / Noel Coward -- A Song of Living / Amelia Josephine Burr -- 'I should like to be buried in a summer forest' / Helen Dunmore -- 'I would not have a god come in' / Sara Teasdale -- I've Made Out a Will / Simon Armitage -- Coda / Dorothy Parker -- Rest / Alan Curtis -- Prayer / Thomas Merton -- 'You must not shut the night inside you' / Friedrich Ruckert -- Prayer for the Little Daughter between Death and Burial / Diana Scott -- Epitaph on a Child / Thomas Gray -- On the Death of a Child / D. J. Enright -- Four Candles / Anonymous -- Too Soon / Mary Yarnall -- Requiescat / Oscar Wilde -- 'Promise you won't forget about me, ever' / A. A. Milne -- Funeral Blues / W. H. Auden -- 'Music, when soft voices die' / Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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'As birds are fitted to the boughs' / Louis Simpson -- Farewell, Sweet Dust / Elinor Wylie -- Echo / Christina Rossetti -- The Kaleidoscope / Douglas Dunn -- Verses Written on Her Deathbed at Bath to Her Husband in London / Mark Monk -- A Widow's Hymn / George Wither -- 'Time does not bring relief' / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Tomorrows / Simon Bridges -- 'Never more will the wind' / H. D. -- Marriage and Death / E. J. Scovall -- Inseparable / Philip Bourke Marston -- 'Dear gentle soul, who went so soon away' / Luis de Camoens -- In Memoriam E. S. / George Barker -- Highland Graveyard / Kathleen Raine -- 'Another and another and another' / James Henry -- 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' / William Shakespeare -- 'By ways remote and distant waters sped' / Catullus -- 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore' / William Shakespeare -- Elegy / David Harsent |
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I Wish You Enough / Anonymous -- While I Slept / Robert Francis -- 'Do not go gentle into that good night' / Dylan Thomas -- Coat / Vicki Feaver -- 'The rooms and days we wandered through' / Peter Porter -- The Friend / Alice Kavounas -- 'You can shed tears that she is gone' / Anonymous -- Inside Our Dreams / Jeanne Willis -- Traditional Gaelic Blessing -- 'To every thing there is a season' / Ecclesiastes -- 'Our revels now are ended' / William Shakespeare -- So Many Different Lengths of Time / Brian Patten -- 'Come, fill the Cup' / Omar Khayyam -- 'Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth' / Ecclesiastes -- 'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels' / Corinthians -- 'Death be not proud' / John Donne -- 'Home is where one starts from' / T. S. Eliot -- Dirge without Music / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- 'Don't tell me that I mourn too much' / Michael Rosen -- All Things Pass / Lao-Tzu -- Earth / Derek Walcott |
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On Death / Kahlil Gibran -- Gone from My Sight / Henry Van Dyke -- The Wheel / Susan Stocker -- Live Your Life / Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation -- Prayer / St. Francis of Assisi -- Old Irish Toast -- For My Own Tomb-stone / Matthew Prior |
| Summary |
This title is a source book for those looking for readings at funerals and celebrations of life. The 70 poems and prose extracts range from Shakespeare to Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Bereavement -- Poetry.
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Death -- Poetry.
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Death -- Literary collections.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Memorial service -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Funeral service -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Bereavement -- Literary collections.
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Grief -- Literary collections.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Literary collections.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Literature.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Watson, Julia.
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| ISBN |
0141014962 paperback |
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