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Date Posted: July 25, 03:04:pm GMT-5
Author: Xanthe
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Cold Comfort

Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness--for then
The spirits of the dead, who stood
In life before thee, are again,
In death around thee, and their will
Shall overshadow thee; be still

From "Spirits of the Dead"
By Edgar Allan Poe

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Out, out brief candle !
Life's but a walking shadow,
a poor player
That struts and frets
his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.

~~William Shakespeare

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Grief for thy dead in silence like to death,
most like a monumental statue
set in everlasting watch and moveless woe.
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it it; the marble eyelids are not wet;
If it could weep, it could arise and go.

~~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Sure there's a lethargy in mighty woe;
Tears stand congealed and cannot flow,
And the sad soul retires into her inmost room.
Tears for a stroke foreseen afford relief.
But unprovided for a sudden blow,
Like Niobe we marble grow
And petrify with grief

From "Threnodia Augustalis"
John Dryden

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Rough wind,that moanest loud;
Grief too sad for song.
Wild wind when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long.
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main,
Wail, for the world's wrong!!!"

~~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Ahh the cold marble angel,
silent stands to watch and reign,
over the dust and dreams
that no mortal can ever have again

Unknown

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O that 'twere possible after long grief and pain,
To find the arms of my true love Round me once again!...
A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee;
Ah Christ,
that it were possible For one short hour
to see The souls we loved,
that they might tell us
What and where they be.

~~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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When he shall die,
Take him and cut him in little stars
And he will make the face of heaven so fine,
That all the world will be in love with night
and pay no worship to the garish sun

~~William Shakespeare

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My grief no mortals know, Except the yearning.
Alone, a prey to woe, All pleasures spurning,
Up towards the sky I throw A gaze discerning.
He who my love can know Seems ne'er returning.
With strange and fiery glow My heart is burning.
My grief no mortals know, Except the yearning

~~Goethe

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In grief too deep for tears to do their share,
My prayers of gratitude are hourly spoken,
Because He saved you from the cross I bear.
Such grievous pain,such unrelenting woe
You never could have borne it, dear, I know.

~~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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