QUESTION: Over whose grave did an unknown friend scrawl, in coal: "Reader, I am to let thee know, / Donne's body only lies below; / For could the grave his soul comprise, / Earth would be richer ...
QUESTION: What poet's epitaph reads, "Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be / Defence enough against Mortality"? ANSWER: Aphra Behn .
QUESTION: Whose death occasioned this epitaph from Lord Byron : "Near this spot / are deposited the remains of one / who possessed Beauty without Vanity, / Strength without Insolence, / Courage w...
QUESTION: This is one poet's epitaph: "The poetic genius of my country found me at the plough and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and ru...
QUESTION: What poet's epitaph reads, "And alien tears will fill for him / Pity's long broken urn, / For his mourners will be outcast men, / And outcasts always mourn"? ANSWER: Oscar Wilde . The...