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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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Facts about Clare Harner Lyon

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This post gives documented facts about the author of "Immortality" aka Do not stand at my grave and weep . All items below have ve...

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Friday, January 29, 2021

Clare Harner in Quest of the Pink Parasol

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In April 1922 Clare Harner, age 12, appeared in her grade-school musical, an "operetta" for children titled The Quest of the Pink ...

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...

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