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Praise for children

An early Latin inscription celebrates a freedwoman who lost six children but whose virtue was rewarded with manumission.

Posted bygsb03632February 20, 2022Posted incemeteries, Latin, photographyTags: Beneventum, CIL I2 3197, freedwoman, hexameter, Latin, Museo di Sannio, pentameter, poetry, Roman funerary practices, Roman verse inscriptionsLeave a comment on Praise for children

Death’s resistless hand

A stone one notch above vernacular slices and dices a hymn to make a quick point.

Posted bygsb03632July 24, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Anne Steele, hymn, Little Church Street Cemetery, Petersburg VA, poetryLeave a comment on Death’s resistless hand

Daffodils

One of my favorite poems, with a photo from Kensington Gardens.

Posted bygsb03632June 21, 2020June 21, 2020Posted inphotography, poetryTags: poetry, WordsworthLeave a comment on Daffodils

The ‘only a topos’ fallacy

Don’t assume conventional epitaphs were without meaning.

Posted bygsb03632June 15, 2020June 15, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Blandford Cemetery, iambs, Petersburg VA, poetry, tombstone doggerel, topos2 Comments on The ‘only a topos’ fallacy

Thou knotty wooden stump!

A masterwork of the tree-stump genre in Blandford Cemetery.

Posted bygsb03632June 8, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: harvest, hymn, log style, pathetic fallacy, poetry, realism, rustic monument, Sarah Doudney, Sleep on beloved, tree stump, wedge, wheat, woodearLeave a comment on Thou knotty wooden stump!

Weeping Willows

I guarantee you will find something to like in this gallery of olde tyme weeping willows.

Posted bygsb03632May 28, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Bible, poetry, urn, willow1 Comment on Weeping Willows

Barshaba

Another drab monument that pops with interest when we take a closer look!

Posted bygsb03632May 13, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Elizabeth City N.C., Episcopal Cemetery, iambs, poetryLeave a comment on Barshaba

Lyre, lyre, pants on fire

Some sizzlin’ iambs from 1878 on the Weide monument. And a lyre!

Posted bygsb03632May 11, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: iambs, Odd Fellows, poetry, Prospect Hill Cemetery, Washington D.C.Leave a comment on Lyre, lyre, pants on fire

Farewell Stithy!

Stithy Roach! Quel nom!

Posted bygsb03632May 9, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetry, vernacular monumentsTags: Hollywood Cemetery, poetry, Richmond VA4 Comments on Farewell Stithy!

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.

Posted bygsb03632May 2, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Brooklyn NY, brownstone, Green-Wood Cemetery, iambs, infant mortality, Oompa loompas, poetry, rose, Sarah TelfordLeave a comment on A rose by any other name

Memento Mori

A fun memento mori in Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, N.C.

Posted bygsb03632March 16, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Durham N.C., iambs, Maplewood Cemetery, memento mori, poetry, tetrametersLeave a comment on Memento Mori

Also a client . . . .

Thoughts provoked by my parents’ cemetery marker.

Posted bygsb03632January 24, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, Latin, poetryTags: CIL VIII 1027, epigram, Greenmount Cemetery, hexameter, Latin, poetry, San Diego1 Comment on Also a client . . . .

Two poems in Rock Creek Cemetery

Two interesting poems in Rock Creek: one vernacular, one a trusty bit of Tennyson.

Posted bygsb03632January 18, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetry, UncategorizedTags: Alfred Lord Tennyson, poetry, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.Leave a comment on Two poems in Rock Creek Cemetery

Gone! Gone.

An epigram on the monument of Charles Dixon Caton requires some comment.

Posted bygsb03632December 12, 2019June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: epigram, iambic pentameter, Oak Hill Cemetery, Odd Fellows, poetry, spondee, Washington D.C.Leave a comment on Gone! Gone.

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.

Posted bygsb03632December 10, 2019June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: anapests, iambs, Mt. Olivet Cemetery, poetry, Washington D.C.Leave a comment on Maurice Reidy

An Irish verse epitaph

An earnest epigram in Glandalough, Ireland.

Posted bygsb03632July 8, 2019July 30, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: cemetery, epitaph, Glendalough, Ireland, poetry, Roman verse inscriptions1 Comment on An Irish verse epitaph

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