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Pliny hath an odd and remarkable Passage concerning the Death of Men and Animals upon the Recess or Ebb of the Sea. - Sir Thomas Browne, Letter to a Friend (sec. 7) The thousand doors that lead to death. - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (pt. I, sec XLIV) A little before you made a leap in the dark. - Sir Thomas Browne, Works (II, 236) Death upon his face Is rather shine than shade, A tender shine by looks beloved made. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. - Robert Browning, A Death in the Desert The grand perhaps. - Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram's Apology Approach thy grave like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. - William Cullen Bryant Death should come Gently to one of gentle mould, like thee, As light winds, wandering through groves of bloom, Detach the delicate blossoms from the tree, Close thy sweet eyes calmly, and without pain, And we will trust in God to see thee yet again. - William Cullen Bryant So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but sustain'd and sooth'd By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one that draws the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. - William Cullen Bryant All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom. - William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. - William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton There is no finite life except unto death; no death except unto higher life. - Baron Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace; out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest; out of a crowd if enemies to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends; out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory. - John Bunyan So he passed over and all the trumpets sounded For him on the other side. - John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (close of pt. II), Death of Valiant for Truth The dead ride swiftly. [Ger., Die Todtem reiten schnell.] - Gottfried Augustus Burger, Leonore O death! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! Welcome the hour, my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest! - Robert Burns But, oh! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early. - Robert Burns, Highland Mary Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world? - Enoch Fitch Burr There is only rest and peace In the city of Surcease From the failings and the wailings 'neath the sun, And the wings of the swift years Beat but gently o'er the biers Making music to the sleepers every one. - Richard Eugene Burton, City of the Dead Displaying page 5 of 36 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
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