Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,

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poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1849)
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Disrespect

A crafty cat crapped in the crypt.
A furtive feline felony,
it left its mark and then it skipped.

The parish priest proclaimed that he
had cause to curse the cunning cat
for sacrilege and blasphemy.

He double damned the dastard cat
that crept into the crypt and crapped.
The theocrat though that was that.

His saintly self-control had snapped.
The phantom feline failed to flee,
the moggy met with no mishap.

The crafty cat quite cleverly
decided it would demonstrate
that it could crap contentedly.

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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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Trekking The Seams

I never felt too young
To feel this old
Break me once
And I will go
To the place beneath
All our years;
The warehouse beneath
The sepulcher.

poem by Norman Santos
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Cemetery Drive

cemetery drive,
covered in mist,
driving down the road,
so cold,
the crypts and tombstones cast dark shadow,
the bats and the wind,
grimly howl,
cemetery drive,
a place of shadow,
cemetery drive,
tall dead trees,
comfort the dead,
black roses grow along the road,
they fight the cold,
and give the living hope,
the living hope their hearts never stop,
and they'll never have to call cemetery drive home,
and tend to the shadows and black roses

poem by Catie Belle Stark
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Crypts Of Eternity

Devious to those unknown
He walks below the land
Alluring victims to their death
Perish to the sand

Master of the blackened arts
Living his decree
Thrives amongst the Seven Gates
Searching for the keys

I have seen the darkened depths of Hell
Sorcery beyond the witches' spell
Robbed the crypts of Death's eternity
Killed the priest and cursed him endlessly

Chants of evil incantation
Fill the murky night
Free the Devil's knights of Hell
Unleash their growing spite

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song performed by Slayer from Hell Awaits
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That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

quote by David Byrne
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

quote by Ted Turner
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

quote by Zahi Hawass
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There's no jealousy in the grave.

classic quote by Rudyard Kipling
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The graveyards are full of young lawyers, lost inheritance and young doctors.

French proverbs
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

quote by John Christian Bovee
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I used to want the words ""She tried"" on my tombstone. Now I want ""She did it.""

quote by Katherine Dunham
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Brute To Blame

A beast of the East is a brute so blind,
It wanders from the lands so perfect.
It is a dumb creature so burdened with youth,
A reptile in the park, the one to blame.
Around a clump of trees the burdened mammal
Stings our sight and rubs the bush with its tail.
In the thicket we laugh as well,
This grove of blame is like a crypt of burden
Where I died in a funeral so bright and ancient.
The beast is out there with a tomb
So then my grave is a tomb for him.

poem by Naveed Akram
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All good women are in the graveyard.

French proverbs
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Mockery

I met my love a-weeping,
Weeping in the night-tide pale;
Her head among the lily bloom,
Weeping by an empty tomb—
An unshut tomb.
I gently stroked her golden hair
That shone so
With the moon-glow
In the sad-sweet air.
Like playful breezes from the south
Came soft smile-dimples to her mouth;
And when again she seemed to weep
I kissed her wild-wide eyes to sleep;
While there beyond the lily bloom
I saw the watching, waiting tomb.

I left my love a-sleeping,
Sleeping in the cypress vale;
Smiling sadly in the gloom;
Sleeping in the fastened tomb—

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poem by Leon Gellert
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Cemetery Dogs

I used to visit
And spend time with my uncle
At the graveyard
Where he patiently abides
His eternal stay.

I then began to visit
Cemeteries whose residents
I was unfamiliar with
In obeisance to the universal dead.

Once, at an old, unkempt graveyard,
Eerie like an old movie scene.
I saw several unfed skinny dogs
Running between huge tombstones.

I meditated on how
I should be as hungry to survive and live
As any other animal on earth.
Gazing at those cemetery dogs

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poem by Uriah Hamilton
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Ill-Starred

To bear a weight that cannot be borne,
Sisyphus, even you aren't that strong,
Although your heart cannot be torn
Time is short and Art is long.
Far from celebrated sepulchers
Toward a solitary graveyard
My heart, like a drum muffled hard
Beats a funeral march for the ill-starred.

—Many jewels are buried or shrouded
In darkness and oblivion's clouds,
Far from any pick or drill bit,

Many a flower unburdens with regret
Its perfume sweet like a secret;
In profoundly empty solitude to sit.

Translated by William A. Sigler

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poem by Charles Baudelaire
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A young doctor means a new graveyard.

German proverbs
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

quote by Zahi Hawass
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

quote by Jefferson Davis
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