[Opus.]

A couple of these have been put up here before, but:

I want this read at my funeral, and the first two lines written on my gravestone...

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 glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.


ALSO:

Rime of The Ancient Mariner - Coleridge

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot (Also, my favourite song is titled after this poem - I knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous, by Frank Turner)

Lady Lazarus - Sylivia Plath (I have a line from this tattood on my foot - I am your opus, I am your valuable)

The Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll.

And various others.. I love poetry. :)