Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer
De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)
“Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.”
"At a Funeral", No. II.
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Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) British author and journalist
"A Quarrel with some Old Acquaintances".
Sketches from Life (1846)
“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,”
John Donne book Holy Sonnets
No. 10, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
Context: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
George Linley (1798–1865) British writer
Thou art gone, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816) Russian poet
Poemː God
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) English poet
The Dark Angel (1895)
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!”
Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 37
