DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!

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I MEASURE EVERY GRIEF I MEET

by Emily Dickinson.

I measure every grief I meet

With analytic eyes;

I wonder if it weighs like mine,

Or has an easier size.

I wonder if they bore it long,

Or did it just begin?

I could not tell the date of mine,

It feels so old a pain.

BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH

by: Emily Dickinson

 

Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

And Immortality.

We slowly drove—He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility—

DEFINITION

An elegy is a sad and melancholic poem, usually about the death of an individual. Grief is one of the hardest thing to tackle as a mortal. Funeral poems help in achieving release, when a near and dear loved one has passed away. Funeral poems aid in the process of bereavement and are a kind of therapy for those left behind. The articles given below throw some light on the topic of funeral poems.