I find it comforting that the first poem a woman ever wrote would become words so many would find empathy in during times of loss.įascinatingly enough, on the popular American television show, Desperate Housewives, a paraphrased version of this poem was read to remember the character Ida, (played by Pat Crawford Brown,) who died when a tornado hit Wistera Lane. The poem gained notoriety over the years and has been read at funerals around the world. I slutningen af 1990erne påstod Mary Elizabeth Frye. Digtet blev populært i slutningen af 1970erne takket være en oplæsning af John Wayne, der inspirerede til yderligere læsninger på tv. She was inspired to write by a young German-Jewish woman’s tale of being unable to say goodbye in person to her dying mother out of fear of anti-Semitic unrest. ' Stå ikke ved min grav og græde ' er første linje og populær titel på et dødsdød om omtvistet forfatterskab. Mary Elizabeth Frye never wrote poetry before scribbling these words about life and death on a brown paper bag one day. Do not stand at my grave bereft I am not there. Toothless had passed away on the last day of fall the season when the leaves the healthy. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room.
I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the starshine of the night. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep.