There are some wonderful monuments that feature a symbolic empty chair.
Tag Archives: Washington D.C.
Colbert monument
An Olde Schoole female figure illustrates 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Now I lay me down to sleep
A late Victorian marker features a generic baby in a blanket sleeper.
The Treasury of the Deckers
In which is explored a model for a very common American mausoleum design.
The decade of grief
By decade’s end, the cumulative grief killed her.
Thou knotty Celtic cross!
Knotical-Rustical-Uncical-Celtical wonder in Glenwood Cemetery, D.C.
Schäflein
A Moravian hymn graces the monument of little Luther Campbell in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Iambs flowing from the Fawcett
No Wooden poetry here but pure iambs flowing from the Fawcett: John Fawcett, that is.
Decalog
A tombstone with the full text of the Ten Commandments and maybe then some. No craziness there, nosiree!
Lyre, lyre, pants on fire
Some sizzlin’ iambs from 1878 on the Weide monument. And a lyre!
