Smith proceeded to read the poem, which closes with the poignant lines: “When the purest hearts are torn apart/Lost souls are all that’s left/Down on my knees I beg of God/To save me from this ...

When the video For Those Lost, Just Not Forgotten begins, with a juxtaposed series of hopelessly bereft faces set to a narrated poem, it may seem as though you were dropped into a Terence Malick ...

The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s. ... “Long-Lost Poem Found in Grave,” read a headline in The New York Times.