Robert Louis

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep   by Marin Sen?ar

Whose poems will you find in the book, exactly?

It’s an eclectic mix, put together with love, care and a great deal of attention to detail. Just some of the authors include Anne and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Buddha, Leo Buscaglia, Noel Coward, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Daphne du Maurier, Kirsti A. Dyer, Max Ehrmann, George Eliot, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Viktor Frankl, Mary Elizabeth Frye, Kahlil Gibran, Henry Scott Holland, Homer, Helen Keller, Rudyard Kipling, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, D.H. Lawrence, C.S. Lewis, Li Po, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Muir, Hugh Robert Orr, Dorothy Parker, Sogyal Rinpoche, Christina Rossetti, Carl Sandburg, Seneca, William Shakespeare, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rabindranath Tagore, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, Henry van Dyke, Edith Wharton, E.B. White, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wolfe, William Wordsworth and many, many more. It goes without saying that all copyright fees have been paid. In this ebook, you will find all the classic poems as well as plenty of lesser-known gems.

In total, the book has over 180 authors and over 250 wonderful poems, quotes and readings. Not to mention our own new version of the famous funeral poem Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep…

“A great book for the early days, but of course it’s good for afterwards too (when in some
ways things are harder as everyone goes back to their lives except you). I did have a cry
when I read some of the poems, and felt much better for it.” Andaleeb Lilley

“I loved the mix of religious and non-religious poems and the mix of old and new. It’s not every
day that poetry books move so easily from Buddha, Lucretius and Seneca to W.H. Auden,
Larkin and the Bible – it’s wonderfully eclectic. Thank you.” J.B.

A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed, first published in 1961, is a highly thoughtful and intimate collection of C.S. Lewis’ reflections on the experience of bereavement, after his wife, Joy Gresham, had died from bone cancer. He wrote it partly as a way of surviving the ‘mad midnight moment.’

Lewis was keen to avoid identification as the author, so he originally published the book under the pseudonym of N.W. Clerk, referring to his wife throughout as “H” (her first name being Helen). The book consists of the contents of four manuscript books (or notebooks) in which Lewis expounds on his grief, from the everyday difficulties of His Life without Joy to deep-set questions of faith.

The indefinite article in the title serves to make it clear that Lewis’ is not the quintessential grief experience at the loss of a loved one, but one individual perspective among countless others. It is a slim volume and a comforting, quick read; definitely a book to keep on the shelf always.

Do Not Stand At My

About the Author

Marin Sen?ar

Robert Louis Stevenson: Die Schatzinsel (Hörspiel)