He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.
With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat. , Omne capax movet urna nomen. ]
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.
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature. ' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire The streams than under ice. June could not hire Her roses to forego the strength they learn In sleeping on thy breast.
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
