An early Latin inscription celebrates a freedwoman who lost six children but whose virtue was rewarded with manumission.
Tag Archives: poetry
Death’s resistless hand
A stone one notch above vernacular slices and dices a hymn to make a quick point.
Daffodils
One of my favorite poems, with a photo from Kensington Gardens.
The ‘only a topos’ fallacy
Don’t assume conventional epitaphs were without meaning.
Thou knotty wooden stump!
A masterwork of the tree-stump genre in Blandford Cemetery.
Weeping Willows
I guarantee you will find something to like in this gallery of olde tyme weeping willows.
Barshaba
Another drab monument that pops with interest when we take a closer look!
Lyre, lyre, pants on fire
Some sizzlin’ iambs from 1878 on the Weide monument. And a lyre!
Farewell Stithy!
Stithy Roach! Quel nom!
A rose by any other name
Come for the charming floral symbolism, stay for a child’s creepy poetic hallucination about the afterlife! It’s like the Oompa loompas make an appearance.
Memento Mori
A fun memento mori in Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, N.C.
Also a client . . . .
Thoughts provoked by my parents’ cemetery marker.
Two poems in Rock Creek Cemetery
Two interesting poems in Rock Creek: one vernacular, one a trusty bit of Tennyson.
Gone! Gone.
An epigram on the monument of Charles Dixon Caton requires some comment.
Maurice Reidy
Catharine Reidy wrote some interesting iambs in the voice to her dead husband Maurice who nonetheless speaks not of the pompatus of love.
An Irish verse epitaph
An earnest epigram in Glandalough, Ireland.
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