![]() Of 2020, her name was Mary Kathleen.This poem has brought healing. I never knew until recently who wrote it. It's been with me ever since and I hold it dearly as it means a lot to me when she passed in 2000. Several months before my Mom's passing I found this poem in CA while on a school bus trip to a mission, It was incased into a very nice wooden frame and I bought it. Simply an incredible and uplifting poem that brings healing. It touches heart.nothing remains to be said anymore!!!!. This poem was featured in an episode of the NETFLIX series AFTER LIFE. since my husband passed, i have realized that this is so true, we never leave this earth I have been in love with this poem since my teenage years. While reading this, my mind instantly went to my grandmother. It's the finale of the excellent show and brings closure to Tony's grief over his wife's death. Such a Great Loving person!Īs CYNTSLESS points out,this is read by a main character in After Life on Netflix. Knowing that my mother is going to pass soon we will recite this when she does pass. My mother is on hospice and I was cleaning out her non useful purse and found this poem and it brought tears to my eyes. Here is the most amazing musical setting by composer Howard Goodall. Just beautiful! Peace and remembrance for the loved left behind. There is still some question about the exact original wording, though, so our research will continue! Extensive research on our part, along with corroborating evidence from several readers, has led us to conclude that the poem was indeed written by Clare Harner. It's also been alleged as a Navajo burial prayer. Wiggins, an Englishman who migrated to America and Marianne Reinhardt (no details found). This beautiful poem is probably one of the world's best known and best loved but, over the years, numerous variations of it have been attributed to Mary Elizabeth Clark Frye, a Baltimore housewife Stephen Cummins, a British soldier J.T. This poem first appeared in the December 1934 issue of The Gypsy magazine and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. During all this time, she actively wrote and published poetry. There, she worked as a social worker and secretary before moving first to Denver, then to San Francisco, where she joined the staff of Fairchild Publications. At Kansas State University, she studied industrial journalism and clothing design and briefly owned a clothing store in Aggieville, Kansas before moving to Topeka. Demonstrating a talent for piano and poetry from an early age, she was also a gifted seamstress and an excellent student. I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle, autumn rain.Ĭlare Harner (1909 - 1977) was born in Green, Kansas. Immortality (Do Not Stand By My Grave and Weep) Ask for this YDP anthology at your favorite bookstore or order it online today!
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