[Help] Please help me choose a poem

Sorry to hear that. 71 is no age these days. Whatever you choose I’m sure it will be lovely.

Lines (1837) by English writer Emily Bronte is below:

I die, but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee, When earthly cares no more distress And earthly joys are nought to me,

Weep not, but think that I have passed Before thee o'er a sea of gloom, Have anchored safe, and rest at last Where tears and mourning cannot come.

'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On the dark ocean sailing drear, With storms around and fears before, And no kind light to point the shore.

But long or short though life may be, 'Tis nothing to eternity: We part below to meet on high, Where blissful ages never die

/r/Poetry Thread