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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (l. 1).
CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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When I
die
I'm sure
I will have a
Big Funeral
(Mari E. Evans (1877-1955). The Rebel (l. 1-5). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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The sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance.
(Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), U.S. social philosopher. The Culture of Cities, introduction (1938).)
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After the funeral, mule praises, brays,
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. After the Funeral (l. 1). . .
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions.)
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As grand
And griefless as a rich man's funeral.
(Sidney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874), British poet. A Musing on a Victory.)
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The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
(Simon Hoggart (b. 1946), British journalist. Observer (London, Dec. 31, 1989).)
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2, l. 180-1.
In reply to Horatio's acknowledgment that Hamlet's mother's marriage took place very soon after her first husband's death; "coldly" means when cold.)
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Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be
counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
are paid.
(Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.-A.D. 17/18), Roman poet. Metamorphoses, 3. 135-137.)
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