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Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...
War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
Priscilla Presley John Amis/AP/Shutterstock Forever in their hearts. During Lisa Marie Presley’s Sunday, January 22, memorial service, mother Priscilla Presley remembered her legacy with a sweet ...
He showed great respect to other Korean independence activists, writing poems of mourning for activists who committed suicide after the signing of the Eulsa Treaty of 1905. However, in 1910, he himself would commit suicide after the annexation of Korea. He left four death poems, with this poem, the third one being the most well-known nowadays.
Gone From My Sight", also known as the "Parable of Immortality" and "What Is Dying" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. [1]
The poem was one of three read at Larkin's memorial service in Westminster Abbey in February 1986. [27] Its two final lines ("Our almost-instinct almost true: / What will survive of us is love.") are also inscribed on the memorial stone to Larkin unveiled in December 2016 in Poets' Corner in the Abbey. [28]
The poem is often read as a memorial. An article in The New Yorker describes the poem as serving as the "elegy of the AIDS era " in the 1980s. [ 18 ] It is the English contribution to the statue commemorating the Heysel Stadium disaster , where a retaining wall collapsed, resulting in 39 deaths on 29 May 1985, when Liverpool F.C. played ...