Ashes Quote by Nikolai Gogol

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

— Jean Ingelow

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou…

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I…

— William Shakespeare

“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched ...…

— Mary Shelley

“ When I Am Dead, My Dearest When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at…

— Christina Rossetti

“I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its…

— Keats

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be…

— Christina Rossetti

“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing of…

— Toni Morrison

“I burn the clouds, Knowing that remembrance has thorny flasks. I plough the sky by sea, Knowing that tears are bluer than my joy.…

— Basim Furat

Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy…

— Emily Bronte

“There is a legend about a bird which sings only once in it's life, more beautifully than any other creature on the face of…

— Colleen McCullough

And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy…

— Callimachus