I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.
I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.
Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you . . .
Michael Hastings has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
From unfathomable deeps a dirge
Swells sobbing through the melancholy air:
Where love has entered, Death is also there.
And now this pale swan in her watery nest; Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending.
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.
In the end, one or the other will triumph a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.
And so I do not sing success,
But dirge the damned who fall,
And who contempt for life express
Through alcohol.
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