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2. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

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   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 poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest. Reference to the wind and snow ...

3. For the Fallen - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. You can shed tears that she is gone - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Carson Daly shares the poem that ‘really saved’ him after his ...

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   Carson Daly remembered his late mother on the anniversary of her death with a poignant poem he said "really saved" him when he was "in the grip of crippling grief" after losing her.. Carson shared ...

6. Laurence Binyon - Wikipedia

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   Today Binyon's most famous poem, "For the Fallen", is often recited at British Remembrance Sunday services; is an integral part of Anzac Day services in Australia and New Zealand and of 11 November Remembrance Day services in Canada.

7. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Wikipedia

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   The poem is an elegy in name but not in form; it employs a style similar to that of contemporary odes, but it embodies a meditation on death, and remembrance after death. The poem argues that the remembrance can be good and bad, and the narrator finds comfort in pondering the lives of the obscure rustics buried in the churchyard.