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Stillborn Poems, Quotes and Funeral Readings for Infant Loss

Posted fifteen/03/16 in Bereavement Resources

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This is a selection of poems, readings and quotes to give comfort and back up to anyone who has lost a babe to stillbirth, miscarriage or whatsoever other illness. As a mother, my middle breaks when I compile this list, merely we take many clients who come to us deeply bereaved and are so grateful for the information they accept found on our blog, and I promise that this listing of poems and quotes may not only provide some small amount of comfort merely may too provide ideas for an epitaph or headstone quote. It is always worth waiting at least a twelvemonth earlier even thinking about a memorial, and frequently several years will go by earlier you are able to face up the thought of commissioning a memorial. Do not feel hurried, take your time, and be kind to yourself.

Hannah Wessel

The best and most cute things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

A butterfly lights beside us

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

Author Unknown.

Wherever they get, and whatever happens to them on the style, in that enchanted place on the height of the forest, a fiddling male child and his bear volition always be playing.

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

Those we have held in our arms for a little while, nosotros hold in our hearts forever.

from The Prophet

When y'all are sorrowful wait over again into your heart, and y'all shall see that in truth you lot are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Khalil Gibran

So go and run free

So go and run complimentary with the angels
Dance around the golden clouds
For the lord has called you to be with him
And we should experience nada only proud
Although he has taken yous from united states
And our pain a lifetime will concluding
Your memory will never escape u.s.
Only brand u.s. glad for the time we did accept
Your face will e'er be hidden
Deep inside our hearts
Each precious moment you gave us
Shall never, ever depart
Then go and run free with the angels
As they sing so tenderly
And please exist sure to tell them
To take good care of you for me

Author unknown.

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

Family unit Chain

Nosotros little knew that morning,
God was going to call your proper noun.
In life nosotros loved you lot dearly,
In death we practise the same.

It bankrupt our hearts to lose y'all,
You did not go solitary,
For role of us went with you,
the day God called y'all home.

You left usa cute memories,
Your dear is still our guide
And though we cannot run into you,
You are always past our side.

Our family concatenation is broken
And nix seems the same
Simply every bit God calls us one by i
The chain volition link again.

Ron Tranmer

Call back of Me

When you're feeling sad or a little bluish,
Await around and y'all'll come across I'yard here with you lot

I'g the bird who soars then high above
I'm the one who filled your heart with love

Author Unknown

Inside Our Dreams

Where practice people get to when they die?
Somewhere downward below or in the sky?
'I can't exist certain,' said Granddaddy, 'just it seems
They just gear up upwardly home inside our dreams.'

Jeanne Willis

Grief is non a sign of weakness, nor a lack of religion; information technology is the
price of love.

P'u - Hua Fei Hua

A flower and not a flower; of mist and however non of mist;
At midnight she was there; she went equally daylight shone.
She came and for a piddling while was like a dream of spring,
And then, as forenoon 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 at present, I won't say good day;
Look for me in rainbows, fashion upward in the sky.
In the morning time sunrise when all the globe is new,
Only wait for me and love me, as you know I loved you lot.

Time for me to exit you, I won't say goodbye;
Await for me in rainbows, high up in the sky.
In the evening dusk, when all the world is through,
Just look for me and dearest me, and I'll be close to you.

It won't be forever, the day volition come up and and then
My loving arms volition hold y'all, when nosotros meet once again.

Fourth dimension for us to part at present, we won't say farewell;
Look for me in rainbows, shining in the sky.
Every waking moment, and all your whole life through
But look for me and honey me, as you lot know I loved you.

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

Music and lyrics: Conn Bernard

Dear bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Dearest never ends.

Corinthians xiii:7-8

Listen...can you hear it?
A heavenly choir sings.
Another little angel
Just got her ready of wings.
At that place's joy and there is shouting
As she steps through heaven's gate.
They all lined upward to greet her.
All the angels celebrate.
Her eyes are shining brightly
And a smile lights her face,
Equally she receives her halo
And takes her special place.
She'south the smallest little angel
With the biggest kind of honey.
She's wiser than an owl
And more than peaceful than a pigeon.
And though there'southward joy in sky,
At that place is sorrow down beneath.
cleaved hearts are crying
Since they had to permit her go.
So she watches them from heaven
Simply she knows the time will come,
They will join their precious girl
When their work on globe is washed

Author Unknown

These are my footprints

These are my footprints, so perfect and then small.
These tiny footprints, never touched the ground at all.
Not one tiny footprint, for now I have my wings.
These tiny footprints were meant for other things.
You volition hear my tiny footprints, in the patter of the rain.
Gentle drops like angels tears, of joy and not from pain.
You will run across my tiny footprints, in each butterflies' lazy dance.
I'll permit y'all know I'm with you, if you give me but a chance.
You volition run into my tiny footprints, in the rustle of the leaves.
I will whisper names into the wind, and call each one that grieves.
Well-nigh of all, these tiny footprints, are found in mummy's heart,
'cause even though I'm gone now, we'll never truly office."

Writer Unknown

The mention of my child's name may bring tears to my eyes, but it never fails to bring music to my ears. If yous are really my friend, permit me hear the cute music of his proper noun. It soothes my broken heart and sings to my soul.

from On The Beach At Night

Weep not, kid,
Weep not, my darling,
With these kisses allow me remove your tears,
The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,
They shall not long possess the heaven, they devour the stars simply in apparition,
Jupiter shall sally, be patient, watch again another nighttime, the Pleiades shall sally,
They are immortal, all those stars both silverish and aureate shall smoothen out again,
The swell stars and the little ones shall shine out once more, they suffer,
The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again smoothen.

Walt Whitman

If Tears Could Build A Stairway

If tears could build a stairway
And memories were a lane
We would walk correct up to Heaven
And bring you back again

No cheerio words were spoken
No time to say adieu
You were gone before we knew information technology
And only God knows why

Our hearts nevertheless ache in sadness
And secret tears still flow
What it meant to lose you
No i will ever know

But know we know you want us
To mourn for you lot no more
To recollect all the happy times
Life yet has much in shop

Since you'll never exist forgotten
We pledge to you lot today
A hallowed identify inside our hearts
Is where y'all'll e'er stay

Author Unknown

Fingerprints

Your fingerprints are on my heart.
Fingerprints that teach me about caring.
Fingerprints that teach me about love.
Fingerprints that teach me about backbone.
Fingerprints that teach me near hope.
Fingerprints that bring me closer to my loved ones.
Fingerprints that bring me closer to myself.
In the time I cared for yous my whole life changed --
never to be the same again
All this from tiny fingerprints that touch my center.
Y'all will live in my heart forever - never to be forgotten.
I will ever honey you.
Yous are my child.

Tom Krause

Nigh people only dream of angels, I held ane in my arms

An Affections Never Dies

Don't let them say I wasn't born,
That something stopped my middle
I felt each tender squeeze you gave,
I've loved you from the start.

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

I know the pain that drowns your soul,
What you are forced to face.
Yous take my word, I'll make full your arms,
Someday we will embrace.

Yous'll hear that information technology was "meant to be,
God doesn't make mistakes,"
But that won't soften your worst blow,
Or brand your center not ache.

I'1000 watching over all yous practise,
Another child you'll bear,
Believe me when I say to y'all,
That I am e'er there.

At that place will come up a time, I promise you,
When yous volition hold my paw,
Stroke my face up and kiss my lips,
And then you'll understand.

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

Writer Unknown

A Million Times

You never said I'm leaving
You never said expert-bye
You were gone before I knew it
And but God knew why

A 1000000 times we've needed you lot,
A million times we've cried.
If beloved alone could've 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 identify,
No ane else will e'er fill up.

It broke our hearts to lose y'all,
But yous didn't go alone.
Part of us went with yous,
The 24-hour interval God took you home

Author Unknown

One time in a while
Children come into this world
Then special that the angels
Need these precious ones
To sing in Sky
And light up the world from higher up

Author Unknown

Dear Child in Heaven

You were a approval to us all
you were a special child.
And we're so glad God sent yous
to be with u.s.a. awhile.

Y'all filled our home with happiness
and made our life complete.
The time we had with yous
was far besides short, merely oh and so sweetness.

Some things we don't find easy
to have or understand.
Until we realize they're part of
our Creator's perfect plan.

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

Don't Cry for me

Don't cry for me now I have died, for I'm all the same hither I'g by your side,
My body's gone but my soul is here, please don't shed another tear,
I am still here I'yard all around, only my torso lies in the ground.
I am the snowflake that kisses your olfactory organ,
I am the frost, that nips your toes.
I am the dominicus, bringing you light,
I am the star, shining so brilliant.
I am the pelting, refreshing the earth,
I am the laughter, I am the mirth.
I am the bird, up in the sky,
I am the cloud, that's globe-trotting by.
I am the thoughts, inside your head,
While I'm withal in that location, I can't exist expressionless.

Author unknown

I Did Not Die

Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not at that place. I practise not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that accident.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain,
When you awaken in the morning'south hush,
I am the swift uplifting blitz
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that smooth at dark.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not dice.

Author Unknown

I Remember Y'all

The world may never notice
If a rosebud doesn't bloom:
Or fifty-fifty pause to wonder if the petals fall as well soon.

But every life that ever forms,
Or always comes to be
Touches the World in some small mode
For all eternity.

The trivial ones we longed for
Were swiftly here and gone.
But the love that was and then planted
Is a low-cal that all the same shines on.

And though our arms are empty,
Our hearts know what to do
Every beating of my heart says
"I Remember Y'all"

Author Unknown

Don't think of him every bit gone away

Don't think of him every bit gone abroad,
His Journey's just begun.
Life holds so many facets,
This earth is only ane.

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

Thinking how he must exist wishing
That we could know today,
How nothing but our sorrows
Tin can actually pass away.

And think of him as living
In the hearts of those he touched,
For nothing loved is e'er lost
And he was loved then much.

Ellen Brenneman

Love is not a matter to sympathise.

Honey is not a matter to feel.
Love is not a thing to requite and receive.
Love is a affair only to become
And eternally be.

Sri Chinmoy

An angel in the book of life wrote downward my baby'southward birth, then whispered as she shut the book… "too beautiful for Earth"

Gaelic Approval

May the route rise up to meet you.
May the wind exist ever at your back.
May the lord's day shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we come across again,
may God agree you in the palm of His hand.

Traditional

Tiny Angel

Tiny Angel residuum your wings
Sit with me for awhile.
How I long to hold your manus,
And run across your tender grinning.
Tiny Angel, look at me,
I want this image clear...
That I volition forget your precious confront
Is my biggest fear.
Tiny Affections can you tell me,
Why you have gone away?
You weren't hither for very long...
Why is information technology, y'all couldn't stay?
Tiny Angel shook his head,
"These things I do not know...
But I exercise know that you love me,
And that I beloved you and so."

Goodnight

Goodnight my dear loved ones
Information technology was not meant to be
I am now to live my life
In a land you can't run across

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

You come across, Heaven like World needs children
To express mirth and sing and play
To exist loved past all around them
Bringing joy to every twenty-four hour period

So now y'all know I'm happy
Growing up like y'all want me to
Delight mention my proper noun with a grin
And I'll send all my love to you lot

Recall I'll always be nigh y'all
For your child I'll always remain
And so live your life knowing I intendance
And I'll be waiting when we run into once more.

Author Unknown

There Is A Special Affections

In that location is a special Affections in Sky
that is part of me.
It is not where I wanted him
just where God wanted him to be.
He was here but merely a moment
like a dark time meteor.
And though he is in Heaven
he isn't very far.
He touched the heart of many
similar simply an Angel can do.
So I ship this special message
to the Heaven upwardly higher up.
Please take care of my Angel
and send him all my love.

Writer Unknown

You lot Were Taken On Angel'south Wings

Y'all were taken on angel'due south wings
Every bit you sweetly and quietly slept
And returned to sky before nosotros knew
That you had even left

Our hearts are heavy and sorrowed
That our time with y'all was then brief
For you were our gift of heaven's light
That is now replaced with grief

Merely non so much that we won't be grateful
For every second that you lot were here
You filled our hearts with so much joy
Treasured memories we'll hold forever dear

And though nosotros weren't blest to see you grow up
We were blessed to see you smile
And to concur y'all lovingly in our arms
For just a little while

Even though you're in Heaven now
We trust yous're not also far away
To be close to u.s. when we long for yous near
For a role of our family you'll always stay

Nosotros'll wait forward to the day when you're with us over again
When the happiness that has left us volition never again part
For when you left on angel'southward wings
You took with you the deepest dearest in our hearts

Author Unknown

God Needed You More

God Needed You More than
I wanted yous so bad,
God needed you more than.

I tried everything
To go on you here,
God needed y'all more.

I cried and almost died,
The 24-hour interval you came,
God needed YOU more.

It breaks my middle
I can no longer concord you
God needed you more.

We will come across again, someday,
But correct now, God needs you more than.
I will go along to love you,
I volition grieve your loss,
I will ever TRY to remember…
God needed y'all more than.

Nicole Lothridge

Darling Swept Away

No stain was on her footling heart;
Sin had not entered in that location;
And innocence slept sweetly on;
That pale white brow so off-white.
She was as well pure for this cold World;
As well beautiful to stay;
And so God'southward holy angel diameter;
Our darling one away.

Author Unknown

Honey in Every Tear

O precious, tiny, sweet little i
Yous will always be to me.
So perfect, pure, and innocent
Just every bit you were meant to exist.
We dreamed of you lot and of your life
And all that information technology would exist.
Nosotros waited and longed for you to come.
And join our family unit.
We never had the chance to play,
To laugh, to stone, to wiggle.
We long to hold you, touch you at present
And listen to you giggle.
I'll always be your mother,
He'll always be your dad.
Yous volition e'er be our child,
The kid that we had.
But now yous're gone…just yet yous're here
Nosotros'll sense yous everywhere.
You lot are our sorrow and our joy,
There's love in every tear.
Just know our love goes deep and strong
Nosotros'll forget you lot never
The kid we had, but never had
And all the same will take forever!

Writer Unknown

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

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

Hers was springtime magic, bringing
music with pale harebells ringing
now an elegy.
Hers the endless summer singing
ours the wintertime of her going.

Author Unknown

We Just Wanted You lot

They say memories are gold
Well maybe that is true.
We never wanted memories,
Nosotros only wanted yous.

A million times nosotros needed yous,
A million times we have cried.
If dear alone could take saved you,
You lot would have never died.

In life nosotros loved you dearly,
In death we love y'all still.
In our heart you hold a special place,
That none will ever fill.

It broke our eye to lose y'all,
Merely you did non go alone.
For all our beloved went with you lot
The twenty-four hour period God called you abode.

Author Unknown

The Cord

We are continued, my kid and I,
past an invisible cord not seen by the eye.
It's not like the string that connects us at nascence
this cord can't be seen by any on earth.
This string does it's work correct from the start
it binds us together attached to my heart
I know that it's at that place though no one can see
the invisible cord from my child to me.
The strength of this string information technology's hard to draw
it tin't be destroyed information technology can't be denied.
It's stronger than any cord man could create
it withstands the test, tin can concord any weight
And though you are gone, though you're not here with me
the cord is withal there but no ane can encounter
It pulls at my centre, I am bruised...I am sore
but this cord is my lifeline as never before.
I'thou thankful that my heart connects united states this fashion
a mother and child, death can't take it away!!

from Martial Cadenza

Merely this evening I saw again low in the sky
The evening star, at the beginning of winter, the star
That in spring will crown every western horizon,
Once more . . . as if it came back, equally if life came back,
Non in a later son, a different daughter, some other place,
But every bit if evening found us young, still young,
Nonetheless walking in a present of our own.

Wallace Stevens

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

Nicholas Wolterstorff, from This Incomplete One

On Angel's Wings

On Angel'southward Wings you were taken away,
Just in my centre y'all will always stay.
I will hear your whisper in the tallest trees,
Feel your love in the gentle breeze.
And when I find I miss you the most,
Inside our beautiful memories
I will hold you shut.
You are an affections watching over me
with the comfort and blessings you bring,
You embrace my heart and concur it shut,
Forever on Angel's Wings

Crailin Hardy

from For the Fallen

They shall grow non former, every bit nosotros that are left abound sometime:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going downward of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon

E'er

Nosotros recollect about you ever,
we talk most y'all still,
you have never been forgotten,
and y'all never will.
We hold yous close inside our hearts,
and there you will remain,
to walk with usa throughout our lives
until nosotros meet once more.

Author Unknown

Never

I'll never get to see your precious face;
or whisper words to make you feel safe
I'll never get to agree y'all tight
when you can't slumber at night
I'll never go to sing to you a sweet lullaby,
to calm you down when y'all cry
I'll never become to fall asleep with you in my artillery,
all bundled in a blanket to keep yous warm
I'll never become to hear you lot laugh and giggle
or see you lot lilliputian toes jerk
There are many things I will never get to do,
but the hardest is not beingness with you.

K. Fugleberg

Early on Decease

She passed away similar morning dew
Earlier the sunday was high;
Then brief her fourth dimension, she scarcely knew
The meaning of a sigh.

Every bit round the rose its soft perfume,
Sweet dearest around her floated;
Admired she grew - while mortal doom
Crept on, un-feared, un-noted.

Dear was her guardian angel hither,
Simply love to death resigned her;
Though love was kind, why should we fear
But holy death is kinder?

Hartley Coleridge

Don't Think of Them as Gone Abroad

Don't call back of them equally gone away,
Their journeying has simply begun.
Life holds so many facets,
This earth is merely one.

Only think of them equally 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 nothing but our sadness
Can actually laissez passer abroad.

And retrieve of them as living,
In the hearts of those they touched.
For nix loved is ever lost,
And they were loved so much!

Author Unknown

Children Who Dice Are Non Really Gone

Children who die are not actually gone,
But become to a identify that is something like dwelling house,
Where they sleep the deep sleep, as serenity as stone,
Until we can join them when our lives are washed.

Children who die are not actually dead,
Simply just like good children tucked into bed,
Wait the long wait while we go ahead
Till our tales are all told and our tears are all shed.

Children who die feel no pleasure or hurting
In the place where they expect till they come across u.s. again,
And all of u.s. dance in a world done with pelting
Where the dominicus shines so brightly no sorrows remain.

Nicholas Gordon

Too Soon

This was a life that had inappreciably begun
No time to find your identify in the Sun
No fourth dimension to do all y'all could take done
But we loved yous enough for a lifetime

No fourth dimension to bask the earth and its wealth
No fourth dimension to have life downwardly off the shelf
No time to sing the songs of yourself
Though you had plenty love for a lifetime

Those who live long endure sadness and tears
But you'll never suffer the sorrowing years
No betrayal, no anger, no hatred, no fears
Just dearest - Simply love - In your lifetime.

Mary Yarnall

How long with the pain last?

How long will the pain last? " a broken-hearted mourner
asked me. 'All the balance of your Life.'
I have to answer truthfully.

We never quite forget. No matter how many
years pass, we call up.

The loss of a loved one is like a major operation.
Part of us is removed, and we have a scar
for the rest of our lives.
Every bit years go past, we manage.

There are things to practice, people to care for, tasks that
phone call for full attention.
Only the pain is notwithstanding there, not far beneath the surface.

We meet a face that looks familiar,
hear a voice that echoes, run into a photo in someone'due south
album, come across a mural that once we saw together, and it
seems as though a knife were in the wound again.

Simply non so painfully
And mixed with joy too
Because remembering a happy time is non all sorrow
it brings happiness with it

How long will the hurting last?
All the residuum of your life
But the things to remember is that
non only the pain will concluding just,
the blest memories as well

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

Megan Dugan

A Child of Mine

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

It may exist half-dozen or 7 years
Or 20 2 or three
Just will you lot 'til I call him back
Take intendance of him for Me

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

I cannot promise he will stay
As all from earth return
But there are lessons taught downwards in that location
That I want this kid to learn

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

At present volition you give him all your love
Nor think labour vain
Nor hate Me when I come to accept
This lent child back again?

I fancied that I heard them say
Dearest Lord Thy Will be done
For all the joys Thy child will bring
The run a risk of grief we'll run

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

Merely should the angels come for him
Much sooner than we planned
We'll brave the biting grief that comes
And endeavour, to understand

Edgar Guest

Fluff Up The Clouds

Call heaven there'south an Affections
That'southward coming home today.
Our hearts are deplorable and broken
Considering he couldn't stay.

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

Our artillery volition never concord him once again
Our lips will never kiss
The velvet of his cheeks again
Nosotros were non prepared for this.

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

Author Unknown

I Do Not Think My Song Will Cease

I do not think my song will cease
While flowers, grass and trees
Grow with birds and collywobbles
For I am one with these.

And I believe my voice will audio
Upon the whispering wind
So long as even one remains
Among those I phone 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 dear those, likewise.

And so long equally dearest and hope and dreams
Abide in world and sky,
Weep not for me, though I be gone.
I shall not really die.

Johnny Hathcock

Petty Footprints

How very softly you tiptoed into my world.
Most silently yous stayed,
but what an imprint your footsteps
have left upon my center
A middle of golden stopped beating
My babe girl's eyes at rest
God broke our hearts to prove,
He only takes the all-time.
God knew she had to go out us,
just she did not go alone.
For part of us went with her,
the day He took her habitation.
To some she is forgotten,
to others…just the past,
simply to us who loved and lost her
memories will ever concluding.

Dorothy Ferguson

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

How do I beloved thee? Allow me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and summit
My soul tin attain, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every mean solar day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-low-cal.
I love thee freely, every bit men strive for correct.
I beloved thee purely, every bit they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to utilise
In my sometime griefs, and with my childhood'southward organized religion.
I dearest thee with a dear I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God cull,
I shall but dearest thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861

Little Angels

When God calls little children to dwell with Him to a higher place,
We mortals sometimes question the wisdom of His beloved.
For no heartache compares with the death of one small child
Who does so much to make our world, seem wonderful and mild
Mayhap God tires of calling the anile to his fold,
Then He picks a rosebud before information technology tin can grow former.

God knows how much we need them, and so He takes but few
To make the land of Heaven more than cute to view.
Assertive this is hard still somehow we must attempt,
The saddest word mankind knows will always be "Bye."
So when a footling kid departs, nosotros who are left behind
Must realize God loves children, Angels are difficult to discover.

Author Unknown

from The Prelude

..whether nosotros be young or onetime,
Our destiny, our being's eye and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With promise it is, hope that can never die,
Attempt, and expectation, and want,
And something evermore near to be.

William Wordsworth

Everything Passes And Vanishes

Everything passes and vanishes;
Everything leaves its trace;
And oft you meet in a pace
What yous could not encounter in a face.

William Allingham

One Person

Sometimes when 1 person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

from Dombey and Son

And can information technology be that in a earth and then full and decorated, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so wide and deep that nothing merely the width and depth of vast eternity can fill it up!

Charles Dickens

from Romeo and Juliet

When he shall dice,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven and then fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

William Shakespeare

Two Headed male child

Two headed boy
At that place is no reason to grieve
The globe that you need is wrapped in golden silvery sleeves
Left beneath Christmas trees in the snow
And I volition take you and leave you alone
Watching spirals of white softly flow
Over your eyelids and all you did
Will wait until the point when you allow go

Lyrics by Neutral Milk Hotel

Holy Innocents

Sleep, little baby, sleep;
The holy Angels honey thee,
And baby-sit thy bed, and keep
A blest sentry above thee.
No spirit can come up near
Nor evil creature to impairment thee:
Sleep, sweet, devoid of fearfulness
Where nothing demand alarm thee.

The honey which doth not sleep,
The eternal Arms effectually thee:
The shepherd of the sheep
In perfect dearest hath establish thee.
Sleep through the holy night,
Christ-kept from snare and sorrow,
Until thou wake to light
And dear and warmth to-morrow.

Christina Rossetti

But a petty while

We were together
Just a little while,
And we believed our honey
Would last a thousand years.

Yakamochi

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