# Question about a poem

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-poem/372921>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 16, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-poem/372921 "2006-09-16T03:08:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-poem/372921/1 "2006-09-16T03:08:13Z")

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Any lit experts out there, because I’m definitely not.

I’m trying to remember who wrote a poem/eulogy when their young daughter died. I think it was a children’s author, and for some reason I thought it was Lewis Carrol/Dodgson but I guess not because he didn’t have any children.

It was a very beautiful, moving poem that I promised to give someone but I can’t seem to find it.

Thanks for any help and if this is in the wrong place, please move it.

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**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-poem/372921/2 "2006-09-16T03:47:03Z")

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Nevermind! I found it, it was Mark Twain.