Little Book of Comfort: An Anthology of Poetry, Lyrics, and Prose

by Anthony Guest

Book Overview

An exquisitely designed gift book for anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one or wishes to give comfort to someone who has. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0551027835
• ISBN13: 9780551027831
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A Little Gem

This is a wonderful little book of poems even if the American title is less appealing than the British title (Only Remember Me) taken from one of the Christina Rosetti poems. It was a gift to me after my husband's death and I read a poem daily until I had gone through the entire book three times. Each time I discovered new poems I liked and marveled at the universal experience of grief. Unfortunately, this book is out of print. I buy it for others as a gift and would like to see it reissued. It is timeless and unique.

The Little Book of Comfort

I was given this book by a Friend when my husband died suddenly and unexpectantly. I gained great comfort and peace from this little book and I then sent it to a friend just recently who had also lost her husband. I highly recommend this book for the comfort it gives.

I send this book in lieu of flowers...

When my daughter was killed I was inundated with inspirational, uplifting books. I was in great pain, not ready to be uplifted. Someone who knew me well gave me this one.It is full of poetry & prose about how I was really feeling, not how I SHOULD be feeling. It made me cry a lot, which was the best thing in the world to be doing in the beginning. I was reminded over & over again by characters from the Bible, from the classics, from every walk of life, that I was not the first person to feel this way. It reassured me that I was in stellar company, King David to C.S. Lewis, & I too would recover. I carried it with me for more than a year. Better than a live-in "shrink."