Henry Scott-Holland

Henry Scott-Holland

About Henry Scott-Holland

Henry Scott-Holland (1847 - 1918), was a priest at St. Paul's Cathedral of London and a Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. While at St Paul's Cathedral, Holland delivered a sermon in May 1910 following the death of King Edward VII, titled Death the King of Terrors, in which he explores the natural but seemingly contradictory responses to death: the fear of the unexplained and the belief in continuity. It is from this sermon that his best-known writing in modern times, Death is nothing at all, is taken. Ironically, the intended message of the complete sermon and the message of the poem are quite different.

    Poems by Henry Scott-Holland

  • Death Is Nothing At All

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    Death is nothing at all.
    It does not count.
    I have only slipped away into the next room.
    Nothing has happened.

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