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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 ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
Leaves of Grass (1882)/Memories of President Lincoln/When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd at Wikisource. " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " is a long poem written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) as an elegy to President Abraham Lincoln. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning ...
Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. – William Wordsworth (1802) " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud " (also sometimes called " Daffodils " [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk ...
Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon ". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty. When his bank sent him to the Yukon ...
Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...
[fn.:] This was the case, among others, at the death of a much-loved starling, which he had given a proper gravestone in his hired garden, and on which he had written an inscription. He was very fond of animals, and – particularly – birds. [9] Mozart's funeral poem is translated by Robert Spaethling into vernacular English as follows.
George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) [1] was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." [2] He was born in Wales into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in ...
1339262. Dewey Decimal. 821.91. LC Class. PR6001.U4. Another Time is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1940. This book contains Auden's shorter poems written between 1936 and 1939, except for those already published in Letters from Iceland and Journey to a War. These poems are among the best-known of his entire career.