I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on th...e brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Few, few shall part, where many meet! The snow shall be their winding sheet,... And every turf, beneath their feet, Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me,... Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride... In her sepulchre there by the sea-- In her tomb by the side of the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But first Elpenor came, our friend Elpenor, Unburied, cast on the wide earth,... Limbs that we left in the house of Circe, Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Their name liveth for ever," the Gateway claims. Was ever an immolation so belied... As these intolerably nameless names? Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With plough and spade, and hoe and loom, Trace your grave, and build your tomb,... And weave your winding-sheet, till fair England be your sepulchre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it is not a tragical life we live, then I know not what to call it. Such a story as that of Jesus Christ,--the history of Jerus...alem, say, being a part of the Universal History. The naked, the embalmed, unburied death of Jerusalem amid its desolate hills,--think of it. In Tasso's poem I trust some things are sweetly buried. Consider the snappish tenacity with which they preach Christianity still. What are time and space to Christianity, eighteen hundred years, and a new world?--that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Forty-four lamps, the gift of kings, now burning in a place called the Holy Sepulchre; a church-bell ringing; some unaffected tears shed by a pilgrim on Mount Calvary within the week.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not too ...sacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but profane green fields and dusty roads, and opportunity to live as holy a life as you can, where the sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lovers of horses and of women, shall From marble of a broken sepulchre... Or dark betwixt the polecat and the owl, Or any rich, dark nothing disinter The workman, noble and saint, and all things run On that fashionable gyre again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »