Editing Epitaph (section)

=== Poets, playwrights and other writers ===

{{poemquote|text=While you live, shine
have no grief at all
life exists only for a short while
and Time demands his due.|multiline=yes
|title=[[Seikilos epitaph]] (oldest surviving complete musical composition)<ref>Landels, John G. 1999. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PDBMPo1VkhYC&pg=PA252 Music in Ancient Greece and Rome]''. London and New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780415167765}} (cloth); {{ISBN|9780415248433}} (pbk); {{ISBN|9780203042847}} (ebook)</ref>}}

{{Blockquote|text=This is my father's crime against me, which I myself committed against none.
|author=[[Al-Ma'arri]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Elegy by al-Ma'arri|url=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/32488|last=Blankinship|first=Kevin|date=2015-09-20|website=Jadaliyya|language=en|access-date=2020-05-04}}</ref>}}

{{poemquote|text=Good frend for İesvs sake forebeare,
To digg the dvst encloased heare.
Bleste be yͤ man yͭ spares thes stones,
And cvrst be he yͭ moves my bones.

(In modern spelling):
Good friend, for Jesus's sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.
|author=[[William Shakespeare]]<ref name="ReferenceA">[[commons:File:Shakespeare grave -Stratford-upon-Avon -3June2007.jpg|Photograph of William Shakespeare's grave, 3 June 2007]]</ref>}}

{{blockquote|text=Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water
|author=[[John Keats]]}}

{{poemquote|text=Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!
|author=[[W. B. Yeats]]|title=[[Under Ben Bulben]]}}

{{poemquote|text=Heroes and Kings your distance keep;
In peace let one poor poet sleep,
Who never flattered folks like you;
Let [[Horace]] blush and [[Virgil]] too.
|author=[[Alexander Pope]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Dickens|title=Dickens' Dictionary Of The Thames|year=1893|page=269}}</ref>}}

{{poemquote|text=Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
|character=[[Joseph Conrad]]|author=[[Edmund Spenser]]|title=''[[The Faerie Queene]]''}}

{{blockquote|text=Homo sum! the adventurer
|author=[[D. H. Lawrence]]}}

{{blockquote|text=Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
|author=[[Virginia Woolf]]<ref>{{Citation
  | first = Virginia | last = Woolf
  | author-link = Virginia Woolf
  | title = The Waves
  | place = Berlin
  | publisher = Harcourt
  | year = 1931
}}</ref>}}