Clare Harner, poet of immortality

Honoring the life and poetry of Clare Harner Lyon (1909-1977): Kansas poet and California transplant, author of the cherished bereavement poem "Immortality" aka "Do not stand by my grave and weep."

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Friday, December 25, 2020

Challenger

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  Challenger Where does he go,        The daring one? He follows the road        That leads to the sun.  Is the going rough        The highw...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

With No Ring

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  With No Ring People pass with averted eyes-- For I'm the sort their creeds despise. No one believes I'd send you away. Everyone th...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

George Elliston, editor of The Gypsy poetry magazine

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"... a reporter who was tough as nails and could spit the same." -- George Elliston as described by Kevin Grace in Cincinnati'...

Clare Harner’s ‘Immortality’ (1934)

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Clare Harner’s ‘Immortality’ (1934) : SINCE its rediscovery by John Wayne in 1977,1 the bereavement poem that begins ‘Do not stand at [by] m...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Well known poem by Clare Harner Lyon

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In this 1988 letter to the editor of the Escondido CA Times-Advocate , Margaret Ireland correctly identified Clare Harner Lyon as the author...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Paul Henniger rightly credits Clare Harner Lyon

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In June 1982 syndicated columnist Paul Henniger correctly identified Clare Harner Lyon as the author of popular eulogy "Do not stand a...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Melvilliana: Not Mary Elizabeth Frye

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Melvilliana: Not Mary Elizabeth Frye
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