On her death in 2004, The Times (English Newspaper) quoted a version of this poem in her autobiography. However the mystery of the true origins of "Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep" seems now to have been solved when the poem was categorically attributed to Mary Frye in 1998, following research by Abigail Van Buren, aka Jeanne Phillips. 'Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep' by Mary Elizabeth Frye Do not stand at my grave and weep.
Subsequent versions of the poems have appeared in so many places that it was firmly regarded as public domain, despite Mary Frye's claims. Later it was printed on postcards by the Schwarzkopf family and was circulated in that fashion before it was ever conventionally printed. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Viktor Frankl, Mary Elizabeth Frye, Kahlil Gibran, Henry Scott Holland, Homer, Helen Keller, Rudyard Kipling, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, D.H. Lucie Storrs has put together a collection that comes from the very being of the authors. Mary has said she wrote it on a brown paper bag and that the words just came to her. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep is a book of beautiful writing about grief. It is said that Mary wrote this for Margaret and that it was Mary's first real attempt at poetry.
Margaret Schwarzkopf was visiting Mary Elizabeth Frye who was living in Baltimore USA when Margaret's mother died. This is a version of a poem that, apparently was circulated as postcards printed by the Schwarzkopf family.
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