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A profound and moving work of poetry, 'In Memoriam' delves into the depths of grief and the enduring impact of loss on the human spirit.
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“And every dew-drop paints a bow.”
“A beam in darkness: let it grow.”
“Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?”
“I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.”
“The quiet sense of something lost”
“And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?”
“For love reflects the thing beloved.”
“Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.”
“The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.”
“How fares it with the happy dead?”
“All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.”
“Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.”
“Their tenderness was hesitant and temporary, like a butterfly pausing on a child’s hand.”
“The loss of his eye had been what guaranteed his life, and so, to Gaunt, it was beautiful.”
“The land had lain for a century dead, but now it had awoken, demanding blood.”
“It was like watching the universe split in half.”
“King and country don't need you. I do.”
“Poor Elly, he thought, as he fell. It’s so much harder to be left behind.”
“He had counted on having decades in which to learn how to love her again.”
“It's difficult to disapprove of a place that gave me so much joy.”
“Let darkness keep her raven gloss: Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss”
“Ellwood held out an enthusiastic thumbs up.”
“He wanted to make him bleed, and then tend to the wounds.”
“All this has taught me the limits of my hatred.”