Funeral poemsWalter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

British · 1775 – 1864

Photograph by William Fisher. Public domain.

What Serany thinks about Walter Savage Landor

Who they are

Landor lived to eighty-nine and had a famous temper, which cost him friendships and ended in a libel case that drove him out of England. The four lines everybody knows were written near the end of all that.

Why we'd read them at a funeral

He is the shortest way to say that a long life was enough. Four lines, no God and no complaint, and a man warming his hands at a fire that is going out.

Our favourite of theirs

I strove with none

Poems by Walter Savage Landor

2 in all

Death stands above me

This poem is for a family who do not believe in anything particular and would rather not pretend they do. Right for someone who was not afraid at the end.

ComfortingGentle

1853

15 sec

I strove with none

This poem is for someone who reached a good age and stayed out of other people's arguments. Right for a person who loved being outdoors or worked with their hands, and was content by the end.

A long lifeNon-religious

1849

15 sec

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