Help Choosing the Wording
for Your Memorial Card
Choosing or agreeing on the wording for your Memorial Card can be cumbersome. Which words best depict your loved one?
Feel free to use one or an extract of one of these poems below or indeed a prayer or blessing of your choice.
A limited amount of text is best [approx 700 characters] for Remember Me Cards.
Poems & Verses for Memorial Cards
There is no night without a dawning
No winter without a spring
And beyond the dark horizon
Our hearts will once more sing ….
For those who leave us for a while
Have only gone away
Out of a restless, care worn world
Into a brighter day
- Helen Steiner Rice
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory -
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap’d for the beloved’s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Miss me but let me go
When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room
Why cry for a soul set free?
Miss me a little-but not too long
And not with your head bowed low
Remember the love that we once shared
Miss me-but let me go
For this is a journey that we all must take
And each must go alone.
It’s all part of the Master’s plan
A step on the road to home
When you are lonely and sick of heart
Go to the friends we know
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds
Miss me but let me go.
- Anonymous
Afterglow
I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an afterglow 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.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun;
Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.
- Anonymous
no goodbyes
There are no goodbyes for us.
Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Pueblo Blessing
Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe even if it is a tree which
stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do even if it is a long way from here.
Hold on to life even when it is easier letting go.
Hold on to my hand even when I have gone away from you.
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Information on Memorial Cards
Short Poems / Blessings for Memorial Cards
Think Deeply
Speak Gently
Love Much
Laugh Often
Work Hard
Give Freely
And be Kind.
Sadly Missed, Remembered with Love
- Love Never Ends -
Always Missed, Always Remembered, Always Loved
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
— Mitch Albom
No one is more cherished in this world
than someone who lightens
the burdens of another.
How to use Irish / Gaielge
on a Memorial Card / Irish Phrases for Memorial Cards
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
May he rest in peace
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam
May she rest in peace
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha
May they rest in peace
The words uasal (noble) or dílis (faithful) can be used to add emphasis:
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal / dílis
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam uasal / dílis
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha uaisle / dílse
Suaimhneas Síoraí Air
Eternal Rest be Upon Him
Suaimhneas Síoraí Uirthi
Eternal Rest be Upon Her
Suaimhneas Síoraí Orthu
Eternal Rest be Upon Them
Go Raibh Suaimhneas Síoraí Air
Eternal Rest be Upon Him
Intimations of immortality
“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind.”
- William Wordsworth
The Window
Your body is away from me
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
From this window, like the moon
I keep sending news secretly.
by Rumi
Remember Me
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rosetti
When you part
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Our Memories
Our Memories Build A Special Bridge
When Loved Ones Have To Part
To Help Us Feel Were With Them Still
And Soothe A Grieving Heart
They Span The Years And Warm Our Lives
Preserving Ties That Bind
Our Memories Build A Special Bridge
And Bring Us Peace Of Mind
- Emily Mathews
If I Should Go Tomorrow
If I should go tomorrow
It would never be goodbye,
For I have left my heart with you,
So don’t you ever cry.
The love that’s deep within me,
Shall reach you from the stars,
You’ll feel it from the heavens,
And it will heal the scars.
- Author Unknown
A Song of Living
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the
blue of the sky.
I have run and leaped with the rain,
I have taken the wind to my breast.
My cheek like a drowsy child
to the face of the earth I have pressed.
Because I have loved life,
I shall have no sorrow to die.
- Amelia Josephine Barr
I Carry Your Heart With Me
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
BY E.E Cummings
Thank you for the days
Luke Kelly
Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I'm thinking of the days
I won't forget a single day, believe me
I bless the light
I bless the light that lights on you, believe me
Now you're gone
You're with me every single day, believe me
