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Epitaph Christopher Azakor Nwakwesi	Read with a gentle breast, These murmurs of earth and sky Then truly have you seen, Beneth this sod a woman lie With anguish moist and fever dew Who...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Epitaph Arthur Henry Adams	The Earth Speaks: HUSH! he drowses, drowses deep, While my quiet arms I keep Close about him in his sleep. Once he glanced at me aghast, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Barbara Cadogan	If I should die without goodbye, This, I would like the world to know, That all my hopes, and all my dreams Were all accomplished. Do not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph George Gordon Lord Byron	Posterity will ne'er survey A nobler grave than this: Here lie the bones of Castlereagh: Stop,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Alan L Strang	Our loved ones lay them down to sleep And leave us here to grieve and mourn, While we, our silent watches keep, O'er their low graves whence they are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Sara Teasdale	Serene descent, as a red leaf's descending When there is neither wind nor noise of rain, But only autum air and the unending Drawing of all things to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Robert William Service	No matter how he toil and strive The fate of every man alive With luck will be to lie alone, His empty name cut in a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Ezra Pound	Leucis, who intended a Grand Passion, Ends with a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Edna St. Vincent Millay	Heap not on this mound Roses that she loved so well: Why bewilder her with roses, That she cannot see or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Richard Groff	If you want an epitaph, Then just write on the stone: That...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Dorothy Parker	The first time I died, I walked my ways; I followed the file of limping...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Thomas Oldham	Mortal! whoe'er thou art, that passest by, Stop, and behold this stone with heedful eye! Here lies a Youth, whom Death's resistless power, In...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Arthur Weil	From perfect parody of A virtuous past A lying, lousy bitch Transforms at last What was a statuesque Beauty before Now dying, shriveled Lives...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	As a boy, reserved and naughty; As a youth, a coxcomb and haughty; As a man, for action inclined; As a greybeard, fickle in mind.-- Upon thy grave...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Sir Walter Raleigh	Even such is time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Desiree Brooks	He lived on lies As he lived He died He gained the world To lose his life Before his time Through hate and strife Who will hail his epitaph For what...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph William Carlos Williams	An old willow with hollow branches slowly swayed his few high gright tendrils and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Edward Young	On Lord Aubrey Beauclerk(45), in Westminster Abbey, 1740. Whilst Britain boasts her empire o'er the deep, This marble shall compel the brave...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Percy Bysshe Shelley	These are two friends whose lives were undivided; So let their memory be, now they have glided Under the grave; let not their bones be parted, For...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God, And read, with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he-- O, lift...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph L. Larry Amadore	He never played by published rules -- he lived his life as he saw fit; instead, he left to other fools their rash pursuits, the glory bit. He studied...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Victor Marie Hugo	He lived, he played, a little laughing sprite: Why, Nature, didst thou snatch him from the light? Hast thou not myriad birds within thy bowers?...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Wallace Dean LaBenne	What will be the chronicle noted of your course? What tracks will epitomize the life that you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph Lascelles Abercrombie	ir, you shall notice me: I am the Man; I am Good Fortune: I am satisfied. All I desired, more than I could desire, I have: everything has gone right...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Bard's Epitaph Robert Burns	Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near; And owre...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)