I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and onely declare me to be dead, but win me, a...nd overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But superstition, like belief, must die, And what remains when disbelief has gone?... Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root;... Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »