E9: Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Mary Frye/Clare Harner/Unknown Author

Mary Frye / Clare Harner / Unknown Author - Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

 

Possibly written in: ca. 1932/1934 (Mary Frye / Clare Harner) 

Note: The author of the poem has not been determined. Therefore, the poem may well belong to Mary Frye, Clare Harner, or other unknown author. The two possible authors are the only ones who claimed the poem to be written by them.   

 

Poem:

Do not stand


By my grave, and weep.


I am not there,


I do not sleep—
I am the thousand winds that blow


I am the diamond glints in snow


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.  

 

Credits: Unknown / Mary Frye (1932 ??) / Clare Harner (1934 ??)