Join me in a nostalgic visit to one of Washington, D.C.’s secular cathedrals.
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There are some wonderful monuments that feature a symbolic empty chair.
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!
Funerary landscaping
A photo essay on the stages of decay of funerary landscape architecture.
Two poems in Rock Creek Cemetery
Two interesting poems in Rock Creek: one vernacular, one a trusty bit of Tennyson.
The tree is known by its fruit.
Lambert Tree hoped to be known by his fruit!
Another outdoor portrait bust
The unexpected freestanding outdoor portrait bust of Eugene Liomin is a rarity worth a second look.
Gone! Gone.
An epigram on the monument of Charles Dixon Caton requires some comment.
And then suddenly, last summer
Suddenly Arthur Smith’s daughter and mother died. But how did he die?
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.
A Hollywood angel
The Rueger monument in Hollywood Cemetery is a nice example of art we sadly no longer see in American cemeteries.
The Liscum monument
An unsung monument in Arlington gets a close look.
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