
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
The Age of a Dream (1890)
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
“A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”
No. 40. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
“He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just,
Shows of the resurrection little trust.”
XXXIV, Of Death, lines 1-2
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
“Let me say
and not mourn: the world
lives in the death of speech
and sings there.”
The Silence.
Poems
“Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death.”
"Life is Better than Death", in Idiots First (1963), p. 85
The Pardon
Context: I started in to cry and call his name,
Asking forgiveness of his tongueless head.
... I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:
But whether this was false or honest dreaming
I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.
Modern version: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Meditation 17. This was the source for the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Source: Meditation XVII - Meditation 17
Context: No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 296