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Edward Young on Death

1683–1765 England

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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

As soon as man, expert from time, has found
The key of life, it opes the gates of death.

Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;
Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

The chamber where the good man meets his fate
Is privileged beyond the common walk
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

Who can take
Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread,
Few know so many friends alive, as dead.

A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

Death is the crown of life;
Were death denyed, poor man would live in vain;
Were death denyed, to live would not be life;
Were death denyed, ev'n fools would wish to die.

Dark lattice! letting in eternal day!

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?
Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

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