In Memoriam — Image, Symbol, and Motif: Death, Dead

Jon Lanestedt, University of Oslo, and George P. Landow, Brown University

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• Prologue: “Thou madest death”
• Prologue: “[man] thinks he was not made to die”
• Section 1: “men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves”
• Section 1: “To dance with death, to beat the ground”
• Section 2: “the ... dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head”
• Section 3: “O Priestess in the vaults of Death”
• Section 8: “dying, there at least may die”
• Section 11: “Calm on the seas, and silver sleep”
• Section 11: “dead calm in that noble breast”
• Section 14: “No hint of death in all his frame”
• Section 16: “some dead lake That holds the shadow of a lark”
• Section 18: “the ritual of the dead”
• Section 18: “life that almost dies in me; ... but endures with pain”
• Section 20: “Where lies the master newly dead”
• Section 20: “Cold in that atmosphere of Death”
• Section 29: “Before their time? They too will die”
• Section 30: “we sang: “They do not die Nor lose their ... ”
• Section 31: “When Lazarus left his charnel-cave”
• Section 31: “no record of reply, Which telling what it is to die”
• Section 32: “he was dead, and there he sits”
• Section 34: “A little patience ere I die”
• Section 35: “Man dies, nor is there hope in dust”
• Section 35: “Half-dead to know that I shall die”
• Section 35: “If Death were seen At first as Death”
• Section 37: “brooding on the dear one dead”
• Section 39: “[Dark yew, that ... ] brooding on the dear one dead”
• Section 39: “Sorrow — fixt upon the dead”
• Section 41: “that vague fear implied in death”
• Section 43: “If Sleep and Death be truly one”
• Section 44: “How fares it with the happy dead?”
• Section 44: “If Death so taste Lethean springs”
• Section 45: “the second birth of Death”
• Section 50: “weave their petty cells and die”
• Section 51: “Do we indeed desire the dead”
• Section 51: “There must be wisdom with great Death ... ”
• Section 56: “I bring to life, I bring to death”
• Section 57: “Eternal greetings to the dead”
• Section 62: “His other passion whoily dies”
• Section 66: “His inner day can never die”
• Section 67: “From off my bed the moonlight dies”
• Section 68: “Sleep, Death's twin-brother ... ”
• Section 71: “Sleep, kinsman thou to death and trance ... ”
• Section 73: “I curse not nature, no, nor death”
• Section 74: “As sometimes in a dead man's face”
• Section 74: “Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee”
• Section 78: “O last regret, regret can die!”
• Section 80: “That holy Death ere Arthur died”
• Section 80: “from the grave Reach out dead to comfort me”
• Section 81: “But Death returns an answer sweet”
• Section 82: “I wage not any feud with Death”
• Section 82: “Nor blame I Death, because ... ”
• Section 82: “For this alone on Death I wreak”
• Section 84: “He that died in Holy Land”
• Section 85: “So hold I commerce with the dead ... ”
• Section 86: “Throughout my frame, till Doubt and Death”
• Section 90: “That could the dead, whose dying eyes”
• Section 94: “An hour's communion with the dead”
• Section 95: “The blows of Death”
• Section 95: “The noble letters of the dead”
• Section 95: “The dead man touched me from the past”
• Section 95: “Mixed their dim lights, like life and death”
• Section 97: “Their every parting was to die”
• Section 98: “On Lethe in the eyes of Death”
• Section 99: “woodlands holy to the dead”
• Section 99: “Memories of bridal, or of birth, And ... of death”
• Section 103: “I dreamed a vision of the dead”
• Section 103: “one would sing the death of war”
• Section 108: “dive below the wells of Death”
• Section 100: “I think once more he seems to die”
• Section 106: “Ring out, wild bells, and let him die”
• Section 114: “She cannot fight the fear of death”
• Section 116: “days of happy commune dead”
• Section 118: “those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day”
• Section 118: “let the ape and tiger die”
• Section 120: “Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death”
• Section 121: “And ready, thou, to die with him”
• Section 122: “I slip the thoughts of life and death”
• Section 127: “pile her barricades with dead”
• Section 128: “Unpalsied when he met with Death”
• Section 129: “Dear heavenly friend that canst not die”
• Section 130: “I shall not lose thee though I die”
• Epilogue: “embalm In dying is a dead regret”
• Epilogue: “Regret is dead, but love is more”
• Epilogue: “Her feet, my darling, on the dead”
• Epilogue: “The dead leaf trembles to the bells"

Last modified 20 February 2010