Mary Elizabeth Frye, florist, and wife to Claud Frye, was born on November 13, 1905 in Dayton, Ohio. She was orphaned when she was three. At the age of twelve, she moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Claud Frye owned a business and Mary sold flowers. She was known to be a passionate reader with an extraordinary memory, but wasn’t considered to have a formal education. She is most famous for her poem Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep. This is her one and only poem she had written. This infamous poem was originally devised on a brown paper bag and was written in 1932. She never published or copyrighted it. The twelve-line verse received a lot of attention when it was declared Britain’s most famous poem through a poll in 1996. There was a lot of dispute