Life and Death
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4.The fear of death and its remedies
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 383–384Prospect of annihilation of all loved things terrifies the soul; life itself is counted as nothingness.read · scan
4a.The fear as imagined, magnified by show and custom
See also: Emotion 5c
Euripides, HippolytusVol. 8
- p. 309–310Man's life is ailing and dim; we cling to earth for fear of the unknown beyond, drifting on legends.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 68–69Everything living is born of the dead; childlike fear of death as hobgoblin must be charmed away.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to DieVol. 32
- p. 26–28Death is less terrible in war or among country people than in bed; the deathbed's trappings terrify more than death itself.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education of ChildrenVol. 32
- p. 45–47Countless dead before us should encourage us not to fear death, meeting good company in the other world.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 8–9Fear of death is weak and increased by tales; the pomp of death frightens more than death; death is natural.read · scan
- p. 9–11Emperors' last words show composure; the Stoics made death more fearful by preparing for it; dying is as natural as being born.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among MankindVol. 34
- p. 177Animals do not know death; knowledge of death and its terrors is an early acquisition by man.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 261–262Fear of death worsens it; death is a remedy for evils; primitive men neither foresee nor fear it.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 867–869Rome as sepulchre and graveyard; the tomb offers shelter from the world's bitter wind; why fear to become what Adonais is.read · scan
William Cullen Bryant, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1213–1214Nature consoles the fear of death: all men return to earth and join the countless dead in one vast tomb.read · scan
George Darley, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 913–914If light deceives by hiding stars, why fear death; perhaps life deceives too.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, WorshipVol. 5
- p. 292–293Apprehension of a coming change; the race gives thanks for existence by fearing its loss.read · scan
4b.Meditation on death as a discipline of living
Herodotus, An Account of EgyptVol. 33
- p. 40At banquets a coffin figure reminds guests they will be dead, urging them to drink and be merry.read · scan
Ecclesiastes; or, The PreacherVol. 44
- p. 342–343The day of death is better than birth; the house of mourning teaches the end of all men.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old AgeVol. 9
- p. 70–71Disregarding death must be learned from youth; nature undoes her own handiwork best; no quiet mind if death is feared.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 174Keep death and exile daily in view so as never to think mean thoughts or covet beyond measure.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 264–265Fannius's death makes Pliny reflect on his own mortality and urge that death find as little as possible destroyed.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 200Live as if now dying and despise the flesh.read · scan
- p. 200–201Do every act as if it were the last.read · scan
- p. 202Depart from life without fear, regulating every act as if leaving now.read · scan
- p. 214Death hangs over thee; do not act as if you will live ten thousand years.read · scan
- p. 218–219Thou wilt soon die.read · scan
- p. 250Consider yourself dead and live the remainder according to nature.read · scan
- p. 251The art of life likened to wrestling, standing ready for sudden onsets.read · scan
- p. 252–253Live each day as though the last.read · scan
- p. 253–254A little time and I am dead; act as an intelligent social being.read · scan
- p. 272Urges praying to be free of fear rather than that feared things not happen; fear of loss is the issue, little about death itself.read · scan
- p. 272Prayer not to fear losing a son; Epicurus in sickness keeps the mind free from perturbation and his life goes on happily.read · scan
- p. 294Fear not that life must end but that one never began to live according to nature.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 126–127Two courtiers find Antony's life and begin to think of leaving secular service.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 227–228Thinking on death and hell more often would spur improvement and willing endurance of discipline.read · scan
- p. 256–257One should lead the life of a dying man; dying to self means living toward God.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to DieVol. 32
- p. 9All wisdom aims to teach us not to fear dying.read · scan
- p. 10Contempt of death gives life tranquillity; death can cut off all other troubles.read · scan
- p. 15–16Recommends constant meditation on death to remove its strangeness, as Egyptians did with a skeleton at their feasts.read · scan
- p. 16–17He constantly expects death, which is equally near in sickness or health, battle or bed; a man should be ready booted.read · scan
- p. 18–19Montaigne wants death to find him at work, unperfected garden and all, and mocks men who lament unfinished projects at death.read · scan
- p. 19Keep death constantly in mind, as churchyards and Egyptian feasts did; premeditation and nature ease dying, and death seems worse at a distance.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education of ChildrenVol. 32
- p. 47–48Education should teach how to live and how to die well.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of BookesVol. 32
- p. 87–89He studies to learn how to die well and live well.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The TempestVol. 46
- p. 461–463Prospero says that in Milan every third thought shall be his grave.read · scan
John Donne, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 306–308Since he must die at last, he uses parting as a feigned death to practice.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 350–351Near the grave, Donne calls his recovery supernatural and, sick again, 'dies daily' like Paul.read · scan
- p. 363Donne meditates nightly on approaching death, friends gone before, and dies in peace.read · scan
- p. 365–366Donne poses in his winding-sheet as a corpse for his portrait, keeping it by his bed as his hourly object until death.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George HerbertVol. 15
- p. 410–411He resolves to be always prepared for death.read · scan
- p. 413Retirement is sought as a space of quiet before dying.read · scan
- p. 414–415Herbert on his deathbed sees past pleasures pass like a dream, practises dying daily, and notes each day lessens his appointed time.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 328–329Sleep is likened to death; waking kills; true living is acting one's nature; we die daily.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 366–367Sickness as a partial death that lets him prepare for God's judgment.read · scan
- p. 387–388Keep death before the eyes so as to desire nothing to excess; loved ones' deaths are returns.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 140–141Reminders of death, sickness and coming judgment revive his guilt.read · scan
- p. 207–208Advice to live well by keeping one's last day always in mind; attachment to a troubled life.read · scan
- p. 269–270'Who live abroad would, first must die at home': the self must die to itself.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 366Those who live nearest to how they would die live best.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 401–402The pastor says death, rightly pictured, spurs the wise to use life and strengthens the pious in hope; father erred in frightening the boy with it.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 270–271The footnote describes friars who carry a death's head to recall their last end and bury the abandoned dead.read · scan
George Long, The Philosophy of AntoninusVol. 2
- p. 342Life is a voyage and warfare; one should not fear death but never beginning to live according to nature.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1264–1267Life is real and earnest, the grave not its goal; hearts beat funeral marchesread · scan
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of GrassVol. 39
- p. 404–406The wise neither hurry nor avoid death.read · scan
Walt Whitman, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1416–1417Amid the busy scenery of life the poet comes to know death and its sacred knowledge, walking with its thought.read · scan
4c.Diversion and forgetfulness as flight from the thought of death
See also: Happiness 7a
Aeschylus, Prometheus BoundVol. 8
- p. 171–175He made men cease to contemplate death by giving blind hopes.read · scan
Plutarch, CiceroVol. 12
- p. 235Cicero announces executions with 'They did live,' the Roman euphemism for the dead, avoiding ill-omened words about death.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to DieVol. 32
- p. 12People shun even the word death; yet all depart alike, and many die young, so none can count on long life.read · scan
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusVol. 19
- p. 242–243Wagner observes that Faustus, though near death, banquets and carouses, having given away his goods.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 261Satan denies the threat of death, pointing to himself as having eaten and lived.read · scan
- p. 281He reasons that the serpent lives after tasting, so they may not die.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 53A king left to reflect falls into forebodings of danger, revolution, disease and death.read · scan
- p. 53–54The chase screens us from sight of death and calamities.read · scan
- p. 63–64Unable to fight death, men avoid thinking of it; death is easier to bear unthought of.read · scan
- p. 64Diversion leads us unconsciously to death.read · scan
- p. 66–67We run carelessly to the precipice, having hidden it from view.read · scan
- p. 233Ignorance of what will become of him at death.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 395Montaigne shuns pain and death from instinct without judging them real evils, following natural impulse amid uncertainty.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 361–362Man will not think of his last change, death.read · scan
Alexander Pope, Solitude; On a Certain Lady at Court; Essay on ManVol. 40
- p. 407Heaven hides fate so creatures live content; the lamb goes to slaughter unaware; hero and sparrow perish alike; death as great teacher; hope of life to come.read · scan
Thomas Gray, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 445–447None resign this pleasing anxious being without a longing look back; nature's fires live even in ashes.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, CharacteristicsVol. 25
- p. 320Life is means not end; man near inevitable death forgets he is born to die, and lives lightly.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, BeautyVol. 5
- p. 298Indian prince fable: seven days awaiting death cost him his appetite for recreation, so priests meditating on death cannot be healthy.read · scan
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, What Is a Classic?Vol. 32
- p. 132–133Voltaire's lines urge despising death by enjoying life on the brink of the tomb.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 263–264One maiden wants Norway because she fears death; another is busy preparing her shroud.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 332A sailor knows his life hangs by a thread and treats escapes as jokes rather than dwell on mortality.read · scan
4d.Faith and a clear conscience as conquerors of the fear
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 160Cords of death and Sheol encompass the psalmist before rescue.read · scan
- p. 166–169Fearless walking through the valley of the shadow of death.read · scan
- p. 224To the Lord belongs escape from death.read · scan
- p. 291–292Delivered from the cords of death and Sheol; death of saints is precious to Jehovah.read · scan
- p. 293'I shall not die, but live'; chastened but not given over to death.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 67–68Fear that at death the soul may be dispersed and destroyed.read · scan
- p. 79–80The dying man has reason to fear that the soul is destroyed when the body is disunited.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 386Killing the body is not the ultimate power.read · scan
- p. 399Whoever seeks to gain his life loses it; whoever loses it preserves it.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 962–963God gives life and death; dying in His way brings forgiveness and mercy better than earthly gain.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 240Being perfectly dead to oneself and separated from earthly things is the condition of inward peace; a spiritual sense of dying to self.read · scan
- p. 278–279Without sin, the speaker will not fear death nor hell.read · scan
- p. 282–283Contrasts those given to the world with those who despise it to live unto God; no real treatment of mortality.read · scan
- p. 322Great confidence for the dying man unattached to anything in the world.read · scan
Martin Luther, Concerning Christian LibertyVol. 36
- p. 353The believer becomes fearless of death through Christ's life, stronger than all death.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 230He faces execution and asks to be taken into God's kingdom.read · scan
- p. 245–247He accepts death calmly, blessing the world and his years, thinking of a better kingdom.read · scan
John Calvin, Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian ReligionVol. 39
- p. 32–33The faithful's confidence dreads neither the terrors of death nor God's tribunal.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 96Death holds all our past; the well-lived life lets a few behold death without dread and embrace it as a guide to glory.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 349Donne faces the threat of death without dread, his mind kept clear.read · scan
- p. 364Donne does not fear death, the King of Terrors, but longs for the day of dissolution and refuses more life.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George HerbertVol. 15
- p. 388–389He fears sickness more than death, as it hinders his duties; the thread of life is full of snarls.read · scan
- p. 413–414He awaits his appointed change with hope and patience amid bodily decay.read · scan
Hymns of the Christian Church: Hymns Based on PsalmsVol. 45
- p. 535–537The believer fears no ill in death's dark vale with the Lord beside him.read · scan
Pierre Corneille, PolyeucteVol. 26
- p. 99–102Felix believes death's terror quenches ardour; Pauline says Christians cannot yield but can die.read · scan
- p. 105–109Death is the gate of life for Christ's servants.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 278Eve fears God's discovery and death, and the thought of Adam living on with another Eve.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 24–25Montaigne's conception of death is cowardly and effeminate, unlike a Christian death.read · scan
- p. 261He awaits death in peace, hoping to be eternally united to Christ, and bears adversity by Christ's example.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 333Death is horrible without Christ, benign and holy in Christ, who sanctified death and suffering.read · scan
- p. 335–336Christians should regard death with hope, not as nature's putrid carrion.read · scan
- p. 339Bodily death is a type of the soul's death; grief at the first should teach dread of the secondread · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 14–15He is condemned to die and unwilling to die, fearing to sink below the grave and be unfit for judgment.read · scan
- p. 46–47To go back is death; forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond it.read · scan
- p. 67–68Shadow of Death valley traversed; David's verse of fearlessness.read · scan
- p. 244–246Pilgrims enter the Valley of the Shadow of Death, haunted by groaning of dead men and terror, fear of death dramatized.read · scan
- p. 246In the Valley of the Shadow of Death, none can know its meaning until they enter it; fear, darkness, and fiends; Christian's husband's ordeal.read · scan
- p. 247Guide urges trust in God while passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death; he is still alive; hardship makes home sweeter.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 362–363The good man does not fear dying; death is a dark passage and the way and condition of life.read · scan
George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe, Shorten SailVol. 40
- p. 463–464Easy passage at death for one who lived with clear conscience; hope meets thee on the way.read · scan
Voltaire, Letters on the EnglishVol. 34
- p. 68They bless the moment of death as union with God.read · scan
Hymns of the Christian Church: Modern HymnsVol. 45
- p. 557–559Goods, kindred and mortal life may go, but God's truth abides.read · scan
- p. 564–566Pleads for keeping in childhood, manhood, age and death; cannot die without Christ.read · scan
- p. 566–568Life's little day ebbs; death has no sting for one with God.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 171Sickness makes him fear death and wish he had never been born.read · scan
- p. 176Timorousness after sleeping where a servant died; trials incite him to give himself to God.read · scan
- p. 197–198Sickness brings us near death's gates; the righteous who die are happy, and the recovered are purged.read · scan
- p. 240Facing danger in the storm he resigns his life to God, seeing each day as lent.read · scan
- p. 283He acknowledges the Lord alone has power of life and death, and accepts bodily weakness as chastisement.read · scan
- p. 287During pleurisy he accepts death as welcome yet desires to live to serve; near-death experience.read · scan
William Cullen Bryant, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1215–1217Urges living so that one meets death not as a scourged slave but with trust, like lying down to pleasant dreams.read · scan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 925–926Love caught her up from the brink of death and taught her life in a new rhythm.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1056–1057'Crossing the Bar': serene acceptance of death, hoping to see his Pilot face to face.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1065–1066Death faced without fear as passage from pain to peace.read · scan
- p. 1105–1106Age waits death unafraid, then new adventure.read · scan
Emily Brontë, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1110–1111Death has no power over the soul whose life is in God.read · scan
4e.Cowardice, baseness and courage before death
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 170Eurylochus argues that death by starvation is the most pitiful and prefers a quick death in the sea.read · scan
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 13Learning truth is worth dying for.read · scan
Aesop, FablesVol. 17
- p. 39The old labourer calls for Death, but when Death appears he only asks for help with his load; love of life persists.read · scan
Plato, The Apology of SocratesVol. 2
- p. 16A good man should not calculate the chances of living or dying.read · scan
- p. 25–26The difficulty is not avoiding death but avoiding unrighteousness, which runs faster than death; he is old and near death.read · scan
Plato, CritoVol. 2
- p. 36–37Death must not enter the calculation when deciding what is right.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 56–57For true philosophers death is least terrible; fear of death shows a lover of the body, not of wisdom.read · scan
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 700–701The hare willingly sacrifices his life, and takes care not to kill insects in his fur.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 117Anchises chooses death over exile and old age; Aeneas resolves to die fighting.read · scan
- p. 344–350Mezentius asks what joys frail being gave to make him cling to life.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 149With this aim one would endure sickness, hunger and death.read · scan
- p. 165–166Fear of death, not death, is source of baseness and cowardice; overcoming it sets men free.read · scan
- p. 168Ready to die cheerfully for his true country.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 288Some wish to die from fear of dying; Pliny consoled that he perishes with the whole world.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 221Contempt of death: long-lived men gain nothing over those who die early; life is not a thing of value.read · scan
- p. 248–249A real man must not love life or merely seek to be saved; entrust these matters to deity and consider how best to live.read · scan
- p. 285Readiness for death should come from a man's own judgment, with dignity and without tragic show, unlike Christian obstinacy.read · scan
- p. 301Contempt of death; even those valuing pleasure have despised it; death not terrible to one content with due season.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 942–943Those who claim God's favour are challenged to wish for death; the death they flee will meet them.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 43–45Beowulf faces the chance that death will take him.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 69–70The prince finds the loss of an eye light beside escaping death; the uncle says the eye is better than the life.read · scan
- p. 227–228The condemned man laments his life passing and death near, and begs for pity.read · scan
- p. 236He expects destruction, falls senseless, and survives through the instinct to live.read · scan
- p. 255Sindibad wishes to die yet cannot, for life is dear; he prepares to defend himself.read · scan
- p. 266Sindbad fears being buried alive; no one knows who will die first.read · scan
- p. 268Entombed among corpses, he wishes for a different death and struggles to sustain life.read · scan
- p. 268–269In the cavern of the dead he clings to life, rationing food and water.read · scan
William Roper, The Life of Sir Thomas MoreVol. 36
- p. 114More answers the Duke's warning that the prince's anger is death: the difference is only that he dies today and the Duke tomorrow.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 100–101Cecchino accepts he has only hours to live, calling it the risk of his profession.read · scan
- p. 233–234He expects death soon but consoles himself that dying of exposure beats the hangman's knife.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King LearVol. 46
- p. 310Edgar laments that we would die hourly rather than once, so sweet is life.read · scan
John Webster, The Duchess of MalfiVol. 47
- p. 824Duchess faces strangling calmly; death has ten thousand doors and is the best gift.read · scan
- p. 826–827Cariola desperately pleads not to die, claiming marriage and pregnancy, before being strangled.read · scan
- p. 853–854Bosola calls the world a pit of darkness where fearful mankind lives, and dies without fear in a good quarrel.read · scan
Thomas Hobbes, Of Man, Being the First Part of LeviathanVol. 34
- p. 370–371Fear of death and wounds disposes men to obey a common power; desire of fame after death motivates though the dead feel no praise.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 251He remarks that one would be greedy of life to wish to live when all the world ended, and impatient to repine at death.read · scan
- p. 290Browne is unafraid of death, calls it equal justice, and despises love of mere biological life.read · scan
Richard Crashaw, Wishes for the Supposed Mistress; Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint TeresaVol. 40
- p. 359–362A life that dares challenge its end and greet death as friend.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 61–62Men prefer death to peace or war; contradiction of hating and loving existence, dying for nothing.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, EgmontVol. 19
- p. 280–281He says he who lives only to save his life is already dead.read · scan
- p. 319Egmont, foreboding death, says he does not fear death in battle but the dungeon, emblem of the grave.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 213–215Death challenged jestingly; ebbing life and last mournful ritesread · scan
- p. 295–297Death dismissed as merely parting breath, faced without fear.read · scan
- p. 425–426Dying soldiers bid farewell to life and defy the King of Terrors, who holds no terror for the brave.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 399–401Melchthal says death is nothing compared to living without sight.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 210He expects death at the crowd's hands, sinking down almost insensible.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 113–114Each animal flees threatened death; 'something better than death everywhere'.read · scan
Lord Byron, ManfredVol. 18
- p. 446Manfred's hour has come; he resolves to die as he lived, alone, and not yield his soul.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, HeroismVol. 5
- p. 130–131Nature limits malice; we near a brink no enemy can follow us over.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 343–344Norsemen are furious to be rid of life, count death in bed a bad fate, and die violently.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 299–300The Lark says he must die of thirst, and the Daisy trembles at being torn off, fearing to lose its life.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 976–977Rejects idle existence: to drink life to the lees; death closes all.read · scan
- p. 977–979He resolves to sail until he dies, perhaps reaching the Happy Isles.read · scan
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