Tomb Sweeping Day

Famous quotes containing the words tomb, sweeping and/or day:

    “Laid out for death, let thy last kindness be
    With leaves and moss-work for to cover me:
    And while the wood-nymphs my cold corpse inter,
    Sing thou my dirge, sweet-warbling chorister!
    For epitaph, in foliage, next write this:
    Here, here the tomb of Robin Herrick is.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    “The Sweeping up the Heart
    And putting Love away
    We shall not want to use again
    Until Eternity.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)