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... my last work is no sooner on the stands than letters come, suggesting a subject. The... More
...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to... More
A man can die but once, we owe God a death. More
A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and... More
A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers,... More
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care
To tend the homely slighted shepherd’s... More
All men think all men mortal, but themselves. More
all must die.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never... More
All your lovely words are spoken.
Once the ivory box is broken,
Beats the golden bird no... More
Already old, the question Who shall die?
Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? More
And after they have shown their pride
Like you a while, they glide
Into the grave. More
And am I born to die?
To lay this body down?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a... More
And our sov’reign sole Creator
Lives eternal in the sky,
While we mortals yield to... More
And suddenly, to be dying
Is not a little or mean or cheap thing,
Only wearying, the heat... More
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on... More
Are we no greater than the noise we make
Along one blind atomic pilgrimage
Whereon by... More
As ye of clay were cast by kind,
So shall ye waste to dust. More
At first thy little being came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you... More
At length, on Saturday, the last day of August, 1839, we two, brothers, and natives of Concord,... More
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. More
Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be. More
Balboa lies dead somewhere and Pizarro’s helmet
Is a spider’s kingdom; More
But that two-handed engine at the door
Stands ready to smite once, and smites no... More
But this invites the occult mind,
Cancels our physics with a sneer,
And spatters all we... More
Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the... More
Comme un fou se croit Dieu, nous nous croyons mortels. (As a madman believes himself to be God,... More
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall
die. More
Do not speak like a death’s-head, do not bid me remember mine end. More
Even such is man, whose borrowed light
Is straight called in, and paid to night.

The... More
Everything is being blown away;
A little horse trots with a letter in its mouth, which is... More
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To... More
Farewell deare flowers, sweetly your time ye spent,
Fit, while ye liv’d, for smell or... More
For love so hates mortality
Which is the providence of life
She will not let it blessèd... More
For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme... More
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from... More
For ‘im that doth not work must surely die;
But that’s no reason man should labour... More
Found a family, build a state,
The pledged event is still the same:
Matter in end will... More
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud—
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be... More
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may:
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that... More
Gloucester. O, let me kiss that hand!
Lear. Let me wipe it first, it smells of... More
Great men regard death as going home. More
Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for from this... More
Had I but died an hour before this chance
I had lived a blessed time; for from this... More
Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
not imagination trace the noble... More
Has there ever been a human life that did not end in death? More
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience More
Here the bones of birth have cried,
‘Though Gods they were, as men they died’. More
How much longer will I be able to inhabit the divine sepulcher
Of life, my great love? More
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in... More
how seasonably
leaf and blossom uncurl
and living things arrange their death,
while... More
How soon hath Time the subtle thief of youth,
Stol’n on his wing my three and twentieth... More
Human life is like a dream. More
Human life is like morning dew. More
I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
I am dying in my own death and... More
I can turn from that slow embrace
to worship mortal, the summoned
god who has speech, who... More
I could bear to suffer ... so many have suffered. But why must it be like this? I have not... More
I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of... More
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade, More
I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was... More
I may dye aged after the common trace.
For hym death greep’the right hard by the... More
I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I’ve done that cannot be wiped out. In... More
If the wild bowler thinks he bowls,
Or if the batsman thinks he’s bowled,
They know... More
If thou art rich, thou’rt poor,
For like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
Thou... More
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
O... More
In a room on the floor below,
Sunless, cooler—a brimming
Saucer of wax, marbly and... More
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or... More
In dis world dey’s many folks think dey’s alive as ain’t alive. Dey’s alive accordin’... More
In my beginning is my end. More
in your mind inwardly despise
The brittle world so full of doubleness,
With the vile... More
It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the... More
It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much... More
It is the blankness that follows gaiety, and Everyman must depart
Out there into stranded... More
It is the blight man was born for, More
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how
many of my old acquaintance are dead! More
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree
In the cool of the day, having fed to... More
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart
Clumps in the breast with heavy... More
Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much. More
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me.
Otherwise kill me. More
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it. More
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their... More
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace.
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth... More
Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the... More
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. More
Much poetry seems to be aware of its situation in time and of its relation to the metronome, the... More
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. They go by like skiffs of... More
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle... More
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all... More
No young man ever thinks he shall die. More
Nothing can we call our own but death,
And that small model of the barren earth
Which... More
Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint
an inch thick, to this favor... More
Now only a dent in the earth marks the site of these dwellings, with buried cellar stones, and... More
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into... More
O he was fair,
even when I flung his words in his teeth,
he said,
“I will soon be... More
O mortal folk, you may behold and see
How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight;
The end... More
O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the... More
O Queen of air and darkness,
I think ‘tis truth you say,
And I shall die... More
O time that cut’st down all!
And scarce leav’st here
Memoriall
Of any men that were. More
Of comfort no man speak.
Let’s talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs,
Make dust our... More
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying... More
On and on eternally
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But... More

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