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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. More
And in Clonmacnois they laid the men of Teffia, More
And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my... More
And they wrapped him up in an old cow’s hide,
And they sunk him in the Lowland sea,
And... More
And we passed to the end of a vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb—
By the... More
Back from that great-grandfather I have come
to puzzle a bending gravestone for his... More
Bring me an axe and spade,
Bring me a winding-sheet;
When I my grave have made
Let... More
But he whose name is graved in the white stone
Shall last and shine when all of these are gone. More
Crazy idea. Me laying flowers on the grave of him, after ten years of rememberin’ to forget. More
Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and... More
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender,... More
Earth has waited for them,
All the time of their growth
Fretting for their decay:
Now... More
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under... More
Few, few shall part, where many meet!
The snow shall be their winding sheet,
And every... More
For I thought of her grave below the hill,
Which the sentinel cypress tree stands... More
For the most part, the best man’s spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave. More
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O’er English dust. A broken heart lies here. More
Friends and contemporaries should supply only the name and date, and leave it to posterity to... More
He with cowslips pale,
Primrose, and purple lychnis, decked the green
Before my... More
Here a pretty Baby lies
Sung asleep with Lullabies:
Pray be silent, and not... More
Here lies John Knott:
His father was Knott before him,
He lived Knott, died Knott, More
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,
Fair... More
Here’s a wing [laughs]. What do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry, or do you still go for... More
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed... More
I am sorry, but I quite forgot
It was your resting-place.” More
I never lost as much but twice,
And that was in the sod. More
I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept... More
I wanted the gold, and I sought it;
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave,
Was it famine or... More
If he go on too far to find a grave,
Mostly alone he goes. More
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign... More
Interred beneath this marble stone
Lie Saunt’ring Jack and Idle Joan. More
It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much... More
I’ll dance above your green, green grave
Where you do lie beneath.” More
I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
...
And... More
Jack Cade, John Brown, Jesse James,
There too I could sit down and stop for a while.
I... More
Laid out for death, let thy last kindness be
With leaves and moss-work for to cover... More
Lastly, his tomb
Shall list and founder in the troughs of grass
And none shall speak his... More
Lie dry, rest robbed, my beast.
You have kicked from a dark den, leaped up the whinnying... More
Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like
Its skeleton shadow on the broad-backed... More
Morning smack of the spade that wakes up sleep,
Shakes a desolate boy who slits his... More
Mortality, behold, and fear,
What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal... More
My dog lay dead five days without a grave More
My friend’s cold made-up face, granite among its flowers,
Her undressed, operated-on,... More
My love lies in the gates of foam,
The last dear wreck of shore;
The naked sea-marsh... More
Nor good, nor bad, nor fools, nor wise,
They would not learn, nor could advise:
Without... More
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there. More
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? More
Oh! snatch’d away in beauty’s bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on... More
On her headstone you’ll find this refrain:
‘She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine.’ More
Our graves that hide us from the searching sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is... More
Out of a grave I come to tell you this,
Out of a grave I come to quench the kiss
That... More
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more... More
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I... More
Posterity will ne’er survey
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of... More
Repose you here in rest,
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.
Here lurks no treason,... More
She hears, upon that water without sound,
A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine
Is... More
She saw the couches of the dead, and where the fibrous root
Of every heart on earth infixes... More
Since the last one in a graveyard is believed to be the next one fated to die, funerals often end... More
Some sepulcher, remote, alone,
Against whose portal she hath thrown,
In childhood, many... More
Somewhere must be the grave of the young boy
Who married her for playmate more than... More
Sudden and swift and light as that
The ties gave,
And he learned of finalities
... More
the grave,
so humble, so willing to be beat upon
with its awful lettering and
the... More
The Knight’s bones are dust,
And his good sword rust:—
His soul is with the saints, I... More
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. More
The tombstone told when she died.
Her two surnames stopped me still.
A virgin married at... More
The villagers are untying their disguises, they are shaking hands.
Whose is that long white... More
There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only... More
There’s many a white hand holds an urn
With lovers’ hearts to dust consumed. More
They they laid to rest the seven Kings of Tara, More
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined—just as found:
His landmark is a... More
This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies,
And Lads and Girls; More
Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
Upon the beached verge of the salt flood,
Who... More
To these, whom Death again did wed,
This grave’s the second Marriage-bed. More
To Time it never seems that he is brave
To set himself against the peaks of snow
To lay... More
Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow. More
Two graves must hide thine and my corse;
If one might, death were no divorce. More
Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was... More
Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at... More
We beg one hour of death, that neither she
With widow’s tears may live to bury me,
Nor... More
Well, Mary, only six more days to go and your old Nathan will be out of the army. Haven’t... More
What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God? More
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down,
Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of... More
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the... More
Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds:
And strangers, fond as they, their furrows... More
Wind goes from farm to farm in wave on wave,
But carries no cry of what is hoped to... More
Yet ‘tain’t being dead—it’s my awful dread of the icy grave that pains;
So I want you... More
‘Lay me a green sod under my head,
And another at my feet;
And lay my bent bow at my... More
“... You could sit there with the stains on your shoes
Of the fresh earth from your own... More
“Ah, are you digging on my grave
My beloved one?—planting rue?” More
“Having reached the term of his natural life”; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached... More
“Oh tell her I lie in Kirk-land fair,
And home shall never come.” More

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