buried quotes

Upon my buried body lay Lightly gentle earth

- Francis and Fletcher,John Beaumont
^11 The Maid's Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

Thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis15:15.

I had a tremendous world in my head and more than three-quarters of it will be buried with me.

- Dorothy Coade later Davies and Lilley Hewett
Sally Banner. The Chapel Perilous, act 2.

   The fine pleasure is not to do a thing but to feel that you could† If I could but get on, if I could but produce a work I should not mind its being buried, silenced, and going no further; but it kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Letter to Robert Bridges,1 Sep. Collected in C C  Abbott (ed)  The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges (1935).

I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.

- Dudley Randall
  Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais, preface.

O me, why have they not buried me deep enough? Is it kind to have made me a grave so rough, Me, that was never a quiet sleeper?

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.2, sect. 5, stanza11, l.334^6.

And when they buried him the little port Had seldom seen a costlier funeral.

-Tennyson
  'Enoch Arden', closing words.