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Famous Epitaphs/Last Words
Famous Epitaphs A reader sent me a bit of trivia she thought I might be interested in (she was right!) John Keats, great poet, who died in 1821, wrote his own epitaph, which is as follows: “Here lies one whose … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anton Chekhov, Beethoven, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, England, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Germany, Humphrey Bogart, Ireland, Jack London, Joan Crawford, John Adams, John Keats, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, Robert Frost, Russia, Shakespeare, Tallulah Bankhead, Thomas Jefferson, W.B. Yeats, Wales
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