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I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle, autumn rain. As you awake with morning's hush, I am the swift, up-flinging rush. Of quiet birds in circling flight. I am the day transcending night. Do not stand. By my grave, and cry-- I am not there, I did not die. This poem is in the public domain.
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".
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Do not stand at my grave and weep is the first line and popular title of this bereavement poem of disputed authorship. This extremely famous poem has been read at countless funerals and public occasions. There are in existence many slightly different versions of the poem.
T. S. Eliot, ‘ Whispers of Immortality ’. One of Eliot’s quatrain poems, this one is effectively in two halves: the first half discusses the Jacobean playwright John Webster and his contemporary, the poet John Donne, and how both understood the mortality that lies just under the living do.
These thought-provoking verses grapple with the age-old desire for eternal life or lasting legacy. Immortality poems may explore the human quest for transcendence, whether through pursuing fame, profoundly impacting others, or seeking spiritual enlightenment.
Because I could not stop for Death –. He kindly stopped for me –. The Carriage held but just Ourselves –. And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste. And I had put away. My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility –. We passed the School, where Children strove. At Recess – in the Ring –. We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –.
