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Memento Mori: The Art of Death and Mourning: Funeral Imagery
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Funeral Imagery
“Weal or Wo Time doth go; Time hath no returning:
Secret Fates guide our States, both in Mirth and Mourning.”
—The Worlds Vanity, 1752
“Thy heart was tender, and thy temper mild,
And ‘peace be here’ thou oft hast calmly said,
Thy easy humour, still the time beguil’d
Now peace to him that’s joined to the dead.”
—Mrs. Rachel Devereux, Poetical Pieces Written on Several Occasions, 1803
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
—Horatio, Hamlet, Act V, Scene ii
“My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep
As it is lasting, so be deep!
Soft may the worms about her creep!
Far in the forest, dim and old,
For her may some tall vault unfold”
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Sleeper”
