Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
“Now from the broken tower, what solemn bell still tolls,
Mourning what piteous death? Answer, O saddened souls!
Who mourn the death of beauty and the death of grace.”
The Age of a Dream (1890)
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XXXIV, Of Death, lines 1-2
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“Let me say
and not mourn: the world
lives in the death of speech
and sings there.”
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The Silence.
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Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) American author
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Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) American poet
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.
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
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.
Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop
Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 296