<Li> In Christian Cameron' s book The Red Knight, a queen is given the namesake Desiderata . </Li> <Li> In 2016, in celebration of 25th anniversary of the Philippine drama anthology series Maalaala Mo Kaya, a spoken - word music recording of the poem (recorded in both English and Filipino) was performed by TBUP Choir and OPM singers Lea Salonga, Martin Nievera, Gary Valenciano, Lani Misalucha, Ogie Alcasid, Zsa Zsa Padilla and Sharon Cuneta, with a spoken narration of the poem by the program's host Charo Santos - Concio, and included on the compilation album Life Songs with Charo Santos . </Li> <P> The poem's copyright A 962402 was registered by Ehrmann on January 3, 1927, as "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, etc . Card .", and was renewed by his widow, Bertha K. Ehrmann, in 1954 . </P> <P> In 1942, Max Ehrmann gave permission to Dr Charles Moore, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, to distribute copies of the poem to soldiers . Three years after Ehrmann's death, his widow included Desiderata in The Poems of Max Ehrmann, published in 1948 by the Bruce Humphries Publishing Company, of Boston . In 1967, Robert L. Bell, acquired the publishing rights from Bruce Humphries Publishing Company, where he was president, and then bought the copyright from Richard Wright, nephew and heir to the Ehrmann works . </P>

Who wrote go placidly amid the noise and haste