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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all
Since every mortal power of Coleridge
Was frozen at its marvellous source,
The rapt one, of the godlike forehead,
The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:
And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle,
Has vanished from his lonely hearth.
Was frozen at its marvellous source,
The rapt one, of the godlike forehead,
The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:
And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle,
Has vanished from his lonely hearth.
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
A thought
Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
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