To celebrate National Poetry Day we've rounded up the best poems for reading at weddings, funerals and other occasions.

You can also read poetry about loss at funerals or memorials for a shared experience among those who loved the deceased. After a death, one of the best ways you can comfort someone is to offer words ...

The poem tells of priests brewing and drinking ... This hymn is regularly used at baptisms, weddings and funerals; bringing comfort with its wonderful reminder of a God who provides for those ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Getty Images Andy first heard about the idea of attending "lonely funerals" after speaking to a writer from the Netherlands during a poetry festival in St Andrews. They described how many people ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

There were 4,400 pauper’s funerals carried out in England last year after no loved ones could be identified to pay for them or complete formalities. And that number is on the rise amid a 13 per ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints Indira Viswanathan Peterson Composed ... Chu Hsi's Family Rituals: A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, ...

Funerals were held for at least 18 people who were killed in an Israeli air attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Israel said the attack was carried out by its fighter ...