The last words of it may be quoted ; they form a fitting epitaph for the noblest of English kings.

The exception may perhaps be Giovanni Sclafenato, who was appointed as cardinal according to the papal epitaph on his tomb for " ingenuousness, loyalty and his others gifts of soul and body ".

Then shall my character be vindicated ; then may my epitaph be written.

The spurious poem 21 may have been one of the Hopes, and poem 26 may have been one of the Heroines ; elegiacs are found in 8. 33 — 60, and the spurious epitaph on Bion may have been one of the Dirges.

The last sentence of the interesting epitaph from which this phrase is taken may be quoted as a specimen of the dialect ; the stone was found in Corfinio, the ancient Corfinium, and the very perfect style of the Latin alphabet in which it is written shows that it cannot well be earlier than the last century BC: " Eite uus pritrome pacris, puus ecic lexe lifar ," " ite vos porro pacati ( cum bona pace ), qui hoc scriptum ( hbar, 3rd decl.

In this there may have been some exaggeration ; but all have acknowledged the elevation of Linacre's character, and the fine moral qualities summed up in the epitaph written by John Caius: " Fraudes dolosque mire perosus ; idus amicis ; omnibus ordinibus juxta carus ".

The following epitaph, said by Billy Martin himself at his number retiring ceremony at Yankee Stadium in 1986, appears on the headstone: I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I was the proudest.

It may surprise visitors to see her grave here with its poignant epitaph in English-" My soul has gained the freedom of the night.

While his epitaph alludes to the possibility that he may have worked at the courts in France and Hungary at some time, no other corroborating evidence has been found ; however there remain biographical gaps in the 1470s and 1480s: for example, the location of " St Ode " is not yet known.

This epitaph may well have inspired the Life of Abercius such as it has come down to us, since all its details may be explained by the hints contained in the inscription, or else belong to the common foundation of all legends of saints.

As that treatise was written about the year 193, the epitaph may be assigned to the last years of the second, or to the beginning of the third, century.

Having retired from political life in 1436, he died on 28 January 1443, and was interred at Trèves, where his epitaph may still be seen.

An epitaph to him in verse survives, and may have been placed over his tomb, which was at Canterbury.

In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.

An epitaph written by Charlemagne in verse, in which he styles Adrian " father ", is still to be seen at the door of the Vatican basilica.

Pope Damasus I placed an epitaph of eight hexameters over his tomb ; the epithet " martyr " contained in them is not to be

His three unsuccessful bids for the presidency ( in the 1952, 1958 and 1964 elections ) prompted Allende to joke that his epitaph would be " Here lies the next President of Chile.

* An epitaph in Latin to a headmaster Henry Bright of King's College, Worcester can be found near the north porch

As explained by Antonio Manetti, who knew Brunelleschi and who wrote his biography, Brunelleschi " was granted such honors as to be buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, and with a marble bust, which they say was carved from life, and placed there in perpetual memory with such a splendid epitaph.

When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

An earlier version of the speech was published in 1818, in a biography on Sarah Curran's father John, emphasising that Emmet's epitaph would be written on the vindication of his character, and not specifically when Ireland took its place as a nation.

Yet, at the same time, Browne can be tersely witty, mocking human vainglory: " Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was " Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée " ( another wordplay in French ; could mean both " he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey ", or " he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown ": the verb " pomper " in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man ); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper l ' Aurore, wrote that " upon entering the void, he must have felt home ".< ref >

The epitaph, written in French, is from The_Abyss_ ( Marguerite_Yourcenar_novel ) | The Abyss: « Plaise à Celui qui Est peut-être de dilater le coeur de l ' homme à la mesure de toute la vie .», which can be translated to " May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

His grave and epitaph can be seen in the cathedral, along with those of his friend Stella.

The book's name might be inspired by the famous epitaph to King Leonidas and his men, erected at Thermopylae: Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by / That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

" ( She requested this to be her epitaph.

Mark and Susan visit Henry's grave, which includes an epitaph: " Without Darkness There Can be No Light ".

Po Toi Island has a " haunted house ", and some rock carvings supposed to be the epitaph of an emperor who died on or near Po Toi.

Lodovico Rore, his nephew, erected his tombstone, indicating in the epitaph that his name would not be forgotten, even in the distant future.

Rilke had chosen as his own epitaph this poem:

Ezra Pound references Elpenor in his poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by having the eponymous poet's grave marked by an oar, with an epitaph that recalls that of Elpenor's.

He was the author of a collection of epigrams called Cicuta (" hemlock ") for their bitter sarcasm, and of a beautiful epitaph on the death of Tibullus ; of elegiac poems, probably of an erotic character ; of an epic poem Amazonis ; and of a prose work on wit ( De urbanitate ).

For his epitaph was a poem he had written, namely:

Her epitaph reads, " My soul has gained the freedom of the night " — the last line of the last poem in her 1927 collection.

The poem is the epitaph of a man, identified only by a combination of letters and numbers somewhat like an American Social Security number (" JS / 07 / M / 378 "), who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government organizations such as the fictional " Bureau of Statistics.

His epitaph simply reads, " Solomon Grundy — Born on a Monday ", a reference to the poem after which he was named.

The poem of sixteen verses which forms the epitaph shows plainly that the language used is one not understood by all: Let the brother who shall understand this pray for Abercius.

A passage from the poem was chosen as the epitaph on Wilde's tomb ;

Each following poem is an epitaph of a dead citizen, delivered by the dead themselves.

Probably his latest composition was his own epitaph, written in saturnian verse:

Her last words, spelled on her fingers, were, " Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him ," and her epitaph is the verse Prov.

The verse is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph written by Simonides to honour the Greek who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.

He had a long epitaph in English verse, which bears sufficient resemblance to some poems of Clowes to make it likely that it was written for Banister's tomb by his old friend.

The epitaph in verse on his tomb was written by Garrick.

He also composed his own epitaph in English verse.

On her monument, designed by John Bacon and erected in 1785, there is an epitaph in verse, composed by Seward.