THE MOST BEAUTIFUL POEM EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 I BOUGHT THIS BEAUTIFUL KEEPSAKE BOX WITH THIS POEM ON IT A LONG TIME AGO.

I BOUGHT IT RIGHT AFTER THE SEPT. 11TH BOMBINGS, AS A BEAUTIFUL REMEMBRANCE BOX.

IT HAS NOW TAKEN ON SPECIAL POIGNANCY FOR ME WITH THE PASSING OF MY BELOVED MOM.

I TAKE TO HEART THESE BEAUTIFUL WORDS, MOM AND ALWAYS KEEP YOU IN MY HEART AND SPIRIT!

I EVEN HAD A BEAUTIFUL DREAM ABOUT YOU LAST NIGHT!

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INTERESTING!!!

It apparently became England's favorite poem!

Check out what I found out about the poem on Wikipedia:
 

Origins

Mary Frye, who was living in Baltimore at the time, wrote the poem in 1932. She had never written any poetry, but the plight of a young German Jewish woman, Margaret Schwarzkopf, who was staying with her and her husband, inspired the poem. Margaret Schwarzkopf had been concerned about her mother, who was ill in Germany, but she had been warned not to return home because of increasing anti-Semitic unrest. When her mother died, the heartbroken young woman told Frye that she never had the chance to “stand by my mother’s grave and shed a tear”. Frye found herself composing a piece of verse on a brown paper

shopping bag. Later she said that the words “just came to her” and expressed what she felt about life and death.^[1]
Mary Frye circulated the poem privately, never publishing or copyrighting it. She wrote other poems, but this, her first, endured. Her obituary in The Times made it clear that she was the author of the famous poem, which has been recited at funerals and on other appropriate occasions around the world for 60 years.^[4]
The poem was introduced to many in Britain when it was read by the father of a soldier killed by a bomb in Northern Ireland. The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The authorship of the poem was established a few years later after an investigation by journalist Abigail Van Buren.
It has become a very popular poem and a common reading for funerals.

BBC poll

To coincide with National Poetry Day 1995, the British television programme The Bookworm conducted a poll to discover the nation's favourite poems, and subsequently published the winning poems in book form.^[5] The book's preface stated that "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" was "the unexpected poetry success of the year from Bookworm's point of view"; the poem had "provoked an extraordinary response... the requests started coming in almost immediately and over the following weeks the demand rose to a total of some thirty thousand. In some respects it became the nation's favourite poem by proxy... despite it being outside the competition."^[6] This was all the more remarkable, since the name and nationality of the American poet did not become known until several years later. In 2004 The Times wrote: "The verse demonstrated a remarkable power to soothe loss. It became popular, crossing national boundaries for use on bereavement cards and at funerals regardless of race, religion or social status".^[1]