Poem I Met A Man Who Wasn T There

Poem I Met A Man Who Wasn T There. Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away [2] In 1910, Mearns staged the play with the Plays and Players, an amateur theatrical group, and on March 27, 1922, the.


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/ He wasn't there again today, / I wish, I wish he'd go away Inspired by sightings of a ghost roaming the stairs of a haunted house in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, this poem was originally composed in 1899 at Harvard University as part of a play called 'The Psyco-ed,' and was later published in New York World in 1922.

/ When I came home last night at three, / The man was CommonLit is a nonprofit that has everything teachers and schools need for top-notch literacy instruction: a full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and formative data. William Hughes Mearns (1875-1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet.A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mearns was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920

. Mearns is remembered now as the author of the poem "Antigonish" (or "The Little Man Who Wasn't There"). CommonLit is a nonprofit that has everything teachers and schools need for top-notch literacy instruction: a full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and formative data.

. Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away (slam!) Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today Oh, how I wish he'd go away.