title=#redirect [[Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep |]]▼{{Infobox person
| name = Mary Elizabeth Frye
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| birth_name = Mary Elizabeth Clark
| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|11|13}}
| birth_place = [[Dayton, Ohio]], [[United States]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|09|15|1905|11|13}}
| death_place = [[Baltimore, Maryland]], United States
| death_cause =
| resting_place = Baltimore, Maryland
| spouse = Claud Frye <br>(m. 1927–1964)<ref name=findagrave>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=FR&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=22&GScntry=4&GSsr=8881&GRid=40647533& Mary Elizabeth Clark Frye at FindaGrave.com]. Retrieved 15 May 2014</ref>
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'''Mary Elizabeth Frye''' (November 13, 1905 – September 15, 2004) was an American poet and florist, best known as the author of the poem ''[[Do not stand at my grave and weep]]'', written in 1932.<ref name="Times Online obituary">[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1076614.ece Times Online obituary] {{registration}}</ref>
She was born in [[Dayton, Ohio]] and was orphaned at three. She moved to [[Baltimore, Maryland]] when she was twelve. She was an avid reader with a remarkable memory. She married Claud Frye, who ran a clothing business, while she grew and sold flowers. The poem for which she became famous was initially composed on a brown paper shopping bag and was reportedly inspired by the story of a young Jewish girl, Margaret Schwarzkopf, who had been staying with the Frye household and had been unable to visit her dying mother in Germany because of anti-Semitic unrest.<ref name=findagrave/> Because people liked her twelve-line, untitled verse, Frye made many copies and circulated them privately. She never published or copyrighted the poem.<ref name="Times Online obituary"/>
The author's identity of the poem was discovered in the late 1990s when Frye revealed that she had written it. Her claim was confirmed in 1998 after research by [[Abigail Van Buren]].<ref name="Times Online obituary"/>
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url=http://www.thehypertexts.com/Mary%20Elizabeth%20Frye%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio.htm
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