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(1) Know the pinetrees. Know the orange dryness of sickness and death in needle and cone. Know... More
(and down went
my Uncle
Sol

and started a worm farm) More
(What is a dead girl but a shadowy ghost
Or a dead man’s voice but a distant and vain... More
. . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown!
These bones, how they grind in... More
... burned to tireless death
A child of a few hours
With its kneading mouth
Charred... More
... into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from... More
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is... More
... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service... More
... the girls who came at dawn
To pay a visit to the young child, and how, when he grew up to... More
... transform
into our flesh our
deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince,
living in... More
...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours... More
...let the dead bury their own dead. More
...then he slept with his ancestors... More
...there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots... More
1st Guard. Is this well done?
Charmian. It is well done, and fitting for a... More
A bad end, a sad end, was the last end of Mieze. And why, why, why? What crime had she committed?... More
A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.—requiescat in pace—you know.... More
A bracelet of bright hair about the bone,
Will he not let us alone,
And think that there... More
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk. More
A cry of bitter dead men who will never
Attend a gentle maker of musical joy. More
A decent chap, a real good sort,
Straight as a die, one of the best,
A brick, a trump, a... More
A diff’rent cause, says Parson Sly,
The same effect may give:
Poor Lubin fears, that he... More
A drunkard is a dead man
And all dead men are drunk. More
A dryness is upon the house
My father loved and tended. More
A fig for
The seal of fire,
Death hairy-heeled, and the tapped ghost in wood,
We make... More
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies. More
A great world leader is gone. Liberty loving people around the globe are sad tonight. We are... More
A love that dies has never lived. More
A man can die but once, we owe God a death. More
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. More
A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and... More
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own. More
A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and... More
A poor life is better than a good death. More
A process in the weather of the world
Turns ghost to ghost; each mothered child
Sits in... More
A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I... More
A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What... More
Abba, dark death is the breaking of a glass.
The dazzled flakes and splinters... More
Accept these costly wreaths for my own sake
(Death asks no entrance fee to let you... More
According to legend, Dr. Sappington purchased his coffin several years before his death and kept... More
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. More
Adrift dissolving, bound for death;
Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one—
A lumbering... More
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a... More
After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead. More
Ah God! that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they... More
Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou
Wert Living the same Poet which thou’rt... More
Ah! I have penetrated to those meadows on the morning of many a first spring day, jumping from... More
Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken,
Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent
Out... More
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul... More
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought... More
Ah, why should all mankind
For one man’s fault thus guiltless be condemned,
If... More
Ai! ai! we do worse! We are in a fix! And you’re out, Death let
you out, Death had the... More
Alas, day, you brought light,
You trailed splendour
You showed us god:
I salute you,... More
Alas,

For the tireless heart within the little
Lady with rod that made them... More
All considerations
for these human remains!
They must have an escort!
They are... More
All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death. More
All earth was but one thought—and that was death,
Immediate and inglorious; and the... More
All else is gone; from those great eyes
The soul has fled:
When faith is lost, when honor... More
All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. More
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be... More
All I want is the moon, Helicon. I know in advance what will kill me. I have not yet exhausted... More
All know that all the dead in the world about that place are stuck
And that should mother... More
All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the... More
All men think all men mortal, but themselves. More
All that people have they will give to save their lives. More
All that’s left to happen
Is some deaths (my own included).
Their order, and their... More
All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy,... More
All the heavy days are over;
Leave the body’s coloured pride
Underneath the grass and... More
All the hills and vales along
Earth is bursting into song,
And the singers are the... More
All this slowness, all this hardness,
The nearness that is waiting in my bed,
The gradual... More
All true enough: and true as well that she
Was beautiful, and danced, and is now dead. More
All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind
With whistler’s cough contages, time on... More
all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. More
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many... More
Also, I am tired of all the dead.
They refuse to listen,
so leave them alone.
Take... More
Ambassador Puser the ambassador
Reminds himself in French, felicitous tongue,
What these... More
Ambition’s debt is paid. More
An important Jew who died in exile. More
And all sad scenes and thoughts and feelings vanish
In that sweet sleep no power can ever... More
And all your deeds and words,
Each truth, each lie,
Die in unjudging love. More
And anyone is free to condemn me to death
If he leaves it to nature to carry out the... More
And as she died so must we die ourselves,
And thence ye may perceive the world’s a... More
And crossed the dark defile at last, and found
At Roncevaux upon the darkening plain
The... More
And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.
And He, picking a manner of worm, which half... More
And death i think is no parenthesis More
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the... More
And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. More
And die of nothing but a rage to live. More
And even you will come to this foul shame,
This ultimate infection,
Star of my eyes, my... More
And he thought to himself...., ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat,... More
And here the precious dust is layd;
Whose purely temper’d Clay was made
So fine, that... More
And I could see that child’s one eye
Which seemed to laugh, and say with glee:
‘What... More
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. More
And I may return
If dissatisfied
With what I learn
From having died. More
And I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the... More
And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still... More
And mighty poets in their misery dead. More
And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have... More
And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise... More
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament,... More

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