Funerals can truly be augmented by a poem that is apt and fitting for the person you have just lost. The following list of funeral poems about stamps are perfect for those who had a passion for stamp-collecting, and everything that came with it.
Any Stamp
by J. W. Robson
It’s just a small piece of paper,
Clean, worn, crumpled or stained,
But the joy that the sight of it gives me
Has never, no never, been named.
As I look at it, I wonder
Of the strange sights which it has seen.
And I cannot help but want to know
On whose letter it has been.
Perhaps it’s helped join two lovers,
But of that who could be sure?
It is not just as likely
That it was written from boor to boor?
Is it a man or a lady that put it
With hands either firm or fine
On this old well-kept envelope
The colour of Burgundy wine?
I can never know, but what difference
The stamp is, of course, the main thing,
It’s just a small piece of paper
But joy upon joy it does bring.
Stamp Collector
an excerpt, by Robert William Service
My worldly wealth I hoard in albums three,
My life collection of rare postage stamps;
My room is cold and bare as you can see,
My coat is old and shabby as a tramp’s;
Yet more to me than balances in banks,
My albums three are worth a million francs.
I keep them in that box beside my bed,
For who would dream such treasures it could hold;
But every day I take them out and spread
Each page, to gloat like miser o’er his gold:
Dearer to me than could be child or wife,
I would defend them with my very life.
They are my very life, for every night
over my catalogues I pore and pore;
I recognize rare items with delight,
Nothing I read but philatelic lore;
And when some specimen of choice I buy,
In all the world there’s none more glad than I.
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