Live Burial

Famous quotes containing the words live and/or burial:

    nat every wight he sholde go selle
    Al that he hadde and yive it to the poore,
    And in swich wise folwe him and his fore:
    He spak to hem that wolde live parfitly—
    And lordinges, by youre leve, that am nat I.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day,
    I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,
    And, turning from my nursery window, drew
    A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!
    William Cowper (1731–1800)