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Quotes About Elegy

And the beauty of Susanna Jones in red Burns in my heart a love-fire sharp like pain. Sweet silver trumpets, Jesus! LANGSTON HUGHES Elegie
~ Unknown
I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone - A Reverie of Bone
~ Mervyn Peake
A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.
~ Nuala O'Faolain
Beni ölünce onun yanaklar?ndaki gamzelere gömsünler. ?? ??? ??? ??? ?? ??? ???????? ?? ??? ???? .
~ Unknown
How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy.
~ Pam Houston
Your daddy doesn't know his assonance from his elegy! And he calls himself a poet.
~ Paul Beatty
You Were My Death You were my death: you I could hold when all fell away from me.
~ Paul Celan
he calls out play death more sweetly Death is a master from Deutschland he calls scrape those fiddles more darkly then as smoke you'll rise in the air then you'll have a grave in the clouds there you'll lie at ease
~ Paul Celan
I weep for Adonais [John Keats]—he is dead!Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tearsThaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last! ? Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats," Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc . (1821)
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley