William Shakespeare on Grave (burial)
← Back to William Shakespeare Profile
“Taking the measure of an unmade grave.”
-100px.jpg)
“Lay her i' the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!”
“They bore him barefac'd on the bier; * * * * * And in his grave rain'd many a tear.”
“The sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws.”
“Let's choose executors and talk of wills: And yet not so, for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground?”
“Has this fellow no feeling of his business that he sings at grave-making? Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.”
“Bear from hence his body: And mourn you for him: let him be regarded As the most noble corse that ever herald Did follow to his urn.”