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Letter "D" » dirge
«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; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting /or he'll come along and nibble your brain.»
«[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.»
«By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.»
«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»
«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assure, dirge, favorites, Graves, minor, providing, Requiem, The graves, varied
«And now this pale swan in her watery nestBegins the sad dirge of her certain ending.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dirge, pale, swan, Swans, The Swan, watery
«Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound.»
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