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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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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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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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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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The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that he's dead.
("An Eminent Editor" Of Press Baron. Quoted in Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain Today, ch. 9 (1965).)
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The genius of Byron, which appeared at the beginning of this century, is like a funeral torch sculptured on our cradles.
(Emilio Castelar Y Ripoll (1832-1899), Spanish statesman, writer. Quoted in Doris Langley Moore, The Late Lord Byron, ch. 15 (1961, rev. 1976).
Moore commented: "The reader of our time would be more inclined to compare him to an inexhaustible Roman candle, or one of those rockets that goes on breaking out in varied coruscations and leaves in the air a luminous smoky trail, an acrid tang of gunpowder.")
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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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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
(James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), U.S. poet, editor. Address, October 6, 1884, Birmingham, England. "Democracy," Democracy and Other Addresses (1886).)
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Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble
At a funeral mass, the skunk's tail
Paraded the skunk.
(Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. The Skunk (l. 1-3). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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