Do not stand at my grave and weep
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Apparently in interviews since writing the poem she said that the ‘words just came to her’, and it also seems clear that she wrote her poetry to bring comfort and pleasure to others, rather than to profit from its publication. Mary Frye, it is said, wrote the poem on a brown paper shopping bag. This was the inspirational prompt for Mary Frye to write the verse, which has for decades now touched and comforted many thousands of people, especially at times of loss and bereavement. She commented to Mary Frye that she had been denied the chance to ‘stand by her mother’s grave and shed a tear’. The friend was a young German Jewish girl called Margaret Schwarzkopf, who felt unable to visit her dying mother in Germany due to the anti-Semitic feeling at home. Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) was a housewife from Baltimore USA, when a visiting friend’s mother died, and this prompted Mary Frye to compose the verse, which she said was her first real attempt to write poetry. Originally the verse had no title, so the poem’s first line, ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’ naturally became the title by which the poem came to be known. Almost certainly Mary Frye wrote the famous poem ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’ in 1932.
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