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And everything is gone, the body is gone
completely under, gone, entirely gone.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British poet. The Ship of Death (l. 75-76). . .
The Complete Poems [D. H. Lawrence]. Vivian de Sola Pinto and Warren Roberts, eds. (1993) Penguin Books.)
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He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Ophelia, in Hamlet, act 4, sc. 5, l. 29-32.
Singing in her madness, after her father's death.)
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The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
(Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Buffalo Dusk (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press.)
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Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Remember (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University É Press.)
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There's a great spirit gone!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Antony, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 2, l. 122.
Antony has just learned of the death of his wife, Fulvia.)
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gone before
To that unknown and silent shore,
(Charles Lamb (1775-1834), British poet. Hester. . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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He has gone over to the majority.
(Petronius Arbiter (d.A.D. 66), Roman satirist. Satyricon, sct. 42.)
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And he'd better gone to the gallows.
(Unknown. Jimmy's Enlisted; or, The Recruited Collier (l. 8). . .
Oxford Book of English Traditional Verse, The. Frederick Woods, ed. (1983) Oxford University Press.)
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Funerals prove that someone is really gone.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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I am gone
Away from my own bosom:
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Hyperion (l. 112-113). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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