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“Grass grows at last above all graves.”

Lasts Hope Grows Grief Graves Grass

Book:Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems

Source: Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems

“The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves?”

Heart Grief Wave Blow Graves Grass Waking

Book:Rivers to the Sea

Source: Rivers to the Sea

“Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.”

Should Grief Graves Countenance My Smile Submerged

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Heart Dark Poor Grief Flower Sorrow Spring Graves Graveyard

Book:Infelicia [poems].

Source: Infelicia [poems].

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.”

Grief And Love Graves Apparel

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness”

Knows Character Light Grief Sun Our Lives Perfection Guilt Individuality Corruption Accidents Graves Dirty Identical Bruises Sameness Lapses

Book:A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years

Source: A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years

“I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.”

Ifs Long Moments Body Found Grief Sadness Heavy Graves Grieving Pulling Memories Of A Geisha Heavy Things

Author:Arthur Golden

“He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.”

Looks Stars Grief Graves Look Up

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.”

Has Beens Grief Company Tears Strange Praise Blind Burden Graves Remembered Grieving Mourning Cried Good Day Lament

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.”

Thinking Body Mother Wish Grief Flower Fairs Ugly Your Body Graves Familiar My Future Wrong Things Cemetery Not Fair

Author:Karen Russell

“His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.”

Life Should Years Children Ends Light Father Numbers Grief Half Boys Four Son Late Graves Granted Miserable Four Years Cheeks Alas Chill Fifth Beard Tombs Epitaph Consoling

Author:Diophantus