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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

Elegy Over A Tomb By Lord Herbert Of Cherbury PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
MUST I then see, alas! eternal night 
      Sitting upon those fairest eyes, 
And closing all those beams, which once did rise 
      So radiant and bright, 
That light and heat in them to us did prove         5
      Knowledge and Love? 
  
Oh, if you did delight no more to stay 
      Upon this low and earthly stage, 
But rather chose an endless heritage, 
      Tell us at least, we pray,  10
Where all the beauties that those ashes ow'd 
      Are now bestow'd? 
  
Doth the Sun now his light with yours renew? 
      Have Waves the curling of your hair? 
Did you restore unto the Sky and Air,  15
      The red, and white, and blew? 
Have you vouchsafed to flowers since your death 
      That sweetest breath? 
  
Had not Heav'ns Lights else in their houses slept, 
      Or to some private life retir'd?  20
Must not the Sky and Air have else conspir'd, 
      And in their Regions wept? 
Must not each flower else the earth could breed 
      Have been a weed? 
  
But thus enrich'd may we not yield some cause  25
      Why they themselves lament no more? 
That must have changed the course they held before, 
      And broke their proper Laws, 
Had not your beauties giv'n this second birth 
      To Heaven and Earth?  30
  
Tell us, for Oracles must still ascend, 
      For those that crave them at your tomb: 
Tell us, where are those beauties now become, 
      And what they now intend: 
Tell us, alas, that cannot tell our grief,  35
      Or hope relief. 
 
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