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Thomas Thetcher Gravestone Thomas Thetcher (1737? – 12th May 1764), also known simply as The Hampshire Grenadier , was a grenadier in the North Regiment of the Hants Militia . He is known to the present day only through his gravestone , which stands in the graveyard of Winchester Cathedral , Hampshire , England .
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England "Do not stand by my grave and weep" is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem "Immortality", written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
The pattern for the number of stresses in this poem is 3-3-4-4-4-3. Flow-er in the cran-nied wall, I pluck you out of the cran-nies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flow-er—but if I could un-der-stand. What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. The poem also follows an ABCCAB rhyme scheme.
The famous gravestone poem at St Peter’s church, Wapley, South Gloucestershire, England. Date: Taken July 2006. Source: My own photograph, taken with a Canon S3. Author: Myself (Adrian Pingstone). Permission (Reusing this file)
At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's The Grave and Edward Young's Night-Thoughts. At its broadest, it can describe a host of poetry and prose works popular in the early and mid-eighteenth century.
Frost composed the poem at his farm in Derry, New Hampshire; his home from 1901 to 1911 "Mending Wall" is a poem by Robert Frost.It opens Robert's second collection of poetry, North of Boston, [1] published in 1914 by David Nutt, and has become "one of the most anthologized and analyzed poems in modern literature".
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In 1788, in the exterior wall of John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery building, the architect George Dance the Younger placed Thomas Banks's sculpture Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry, for which the artist was paid 500 guineas. The sculpture depicted Shakespeare, reclining against a rock, between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of ...