Sympathy Card Verses

Use these sympathy card verses as wording for your sympathy cards.

During this difficult time, it's hard to know what to say. Perhaps some of the world's greatest writers have already written the words to express what is in your heart.

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Also this best poems for funerals page may also help you find what you need.


He kept at true good humour's mark
The social flow of pleasure's tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
~Thomas Love Peacock


There's no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
There's such a thing as keeping
A remembrance in one's heart...
~from Parting by Charlotte Bronte


Look for the rainbow
that gracious thing,
made up of tears and light.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


This world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible, as music,
But positive, as sound.
~ Emily Dickinson


Every blade in the field —
every leaf in the forest —
lays down its life in its season
as beautifully as it was taken up.
~Henry David Thoreau


Though nothing can bring back the hour
of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
—William Wordsworth


Like a bird
Singing in the rain,
Let grateful memories
Survive in time of sorrow.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

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