Weston Burying Ground

Famous quotes containing the words weston, burying and/or ground:

    Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    —Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885)

    The earth, that’s nature’s mother, is her tomb.
    What is her burying grave, that is her womb.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
    How can you be alive you growths of spring?
    How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
    Are they not continually putting distemper’d corpses within you?
    Is not every continent work’d over and over with sour dead?
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)