Epitaphs for Children

Epitaphs and Words of Comfort For a Child

Listed below are example epitaphs.  For help with writing an epitaph or to talk with us about ordering a monument, headstone, flat marker or memorial plaque for a child, call 608-637-7726.

Example Epitpahs
 

• Budded on earth to bloom in Heaven. (anonymous)
• Children bring their own love with them when they come. (Jean Ingelow)
• What would the world be to us if the children were no more? (Longfellow)
• Oh, for boyhood's time of June, crowding years into one brief moon. (Whittier)
• Sleep undisturbed within the peaceful shrine till angels wake thee with a note like thine. (Samuel Johnson)
• No jewel is as perfect as the innocence of childhood. (anonymous)
• Sleep, my little one, sleep. (Harrington)
• Children are an heritage of the Lord. (Psalms 127: 3)
• The child is the father of the man. (Wordsworth)
• Little Boy Blue has gone away. (Field)
• God's garden has need of little flowers. (anonymous)
• Remembering a tiny angel. (anonymous)
• Hush, my dear, be still and slumber; Jolly angels guard your bed. (Watts)
• Lord, we give you our littlest angel. (anonymous)
• Those that God loves do not live long
• For such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• His was a man's courage.
• Our littlest angel who went back to Heaven.
• Called by one who loves him dearly.
• Let thy child rest in hope and rise in glory.
• Awaiting the touch of a little hand, and the smile of a little face. (E. Field)
• Children are the keys of paradise. (R.H. Stoddard)
• An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away. (Longfellow)
• Even the tiniest child leaves behind love that lasts forever.
• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever (Tennyson)
• Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber. Holy Angels guard thy bed. Heavenly blessings without number gently falling on thy head.
• So small, so sweet, so soon. (anonymous)