urn quotes

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

-William Cowper
  The Task, bk.4,'The Winter Evening', l.34^9.

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Lean on a garden urn Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Prufrock and Other Observations,'La Figlia Che Piange'.

Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.41^4.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Hellas', l.1096^101.

She came to the village church, And sat by a pillar alone; An angel watching an urn Wept over her, carved in stone.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.8, l.301^4.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

- Henry Vaughan
  Silex Scintillans,'The Retreat'.