N. interment, burial,
sepulture, inhumation|,
obsequies,
exequies, funeral,
wake,
pyre, funeral pile,
cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity,
kneel, passing bell,
tolling,
dirge,
cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum,
mortuary, undertaker,
mute,
elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon,
epitaph,
graveclothes,
shroud, winding sheet,
cerecloth,
cerement,
coffin, shell,
sarcophagus,
urn,
pall,
bier,
hearse,
catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit,
sepulcher, tomb,
vault,
crypt,
catacomb,
mausoleum,
golgotha, house of death, narrow house,
cemetery,
necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, god's acre,
tope,
cromlech,
barrow,
tumulus,
cairn,
ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house,
morgue, lich gate, burning ghat,
crematorium,
crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field,
stupa, tower of silence,
sexton,
gravedigger, monument,
cenotaph,
shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori,
hatchment, stone,
obelisk, pyramid,
exhumation,
disinterment,
necropsy,
autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis
V. inter,
bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb,
entomb, in tomb, inhume, lay out, perform a funeral,
embalm,
mummify, toll the knell, put to bed with a shovel,
inurn,
exhume,
disinter, unearth
Adv. in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod
Phr. hic jacet, ci-git,
rip, requiescat in pace, "the lone couch of his everlasting sleep", "without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown", "in the dark union of insensate dust", "the deep cold shadow of the tomb", 2. special vitality
N. poetry, poetics,
poesy,
muse,
calliope, tuneful nine,
parnassus,
helicon,
pierides, pierian spring,
versification,
rhyming, making verses,
prosody,
orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem,
epopee, epopoea,
ode,
epode,
idyl,
lyric,
eclogue, pastoral,
bucolic,
dithyramb,
anacreontic,
sonnet,
roundelay,
rondeau,
rondo,
madrigal,
canzonet,
cento, *monody,
elegy,
amoebaeum, ghazal,
palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera,
posy,
anthology, disjecta membra poetae song,
ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song,
lullaby, music, nursery rhymes,
doggerel, hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes,
canto,
stanza,
distich, verse, line,
couplet,
triplet,
quatrain,
strophe,
antistrophe, verse,
rhyme,
assonance,
crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain,
rhythm,
accentuation,
dactyl,
spondee,
trochee, anapest &c,
hexameter,
pentameter,
alexandrine,
anacrusis,
antispast, blank verse,
ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate,
laureate,
bard,
lyrist,
scald,
skald,
troubadour,
trouvere,
minstrel,
minnesinger,
meistersinger,
improvisatore,
versifier,
sonneteer,
rhymer,
rhymist,
rhymester,
ballad monger, runer,
poetaster, genus irritabile vatum
Adj. poetic, poetical,
lyric,
lyrical,
tuneful, epic,
dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin,
elegiac,
iambic,
trochaic,
anapestic, amoebaeic,
melibean,
skaldic,
ionic,
sapphic,
alcaic,
pindaric Phr. "a poem round and perfect as a star", dichtung und wahrheit, furor poeticus, "his virtues formed the magic of his song", "i do but sing because i must", "i learnt life from the poets", licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, "o for a muse of fire!", "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge", "the true poem is the poet's mind", volk der dichter und denker, "wisdom married to immortal verse"
N. lament,
lamentation,
wail,
complaint,
plaint,
murmur,
mutter,
grumble,
groan,
moan,
whine,
whimper,
sob,
sigh,
suspiration,
heaving, deep sigh, cry,
scream,
howl, outcry, wail of woe,
ululation,
frown,
scowl,
tear,
weeping, flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation,
lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth,
plaintiveness,
languishment,
condolence,
mourning, weeds,
willow,
cypress,
crape, deep mourning, sackcloth and ashes,
lachrymatory,
knell, deep death song,
dirge,
coronach,
nenia,
requiem,
elegy,
epicedium,
threne,
monody,
threnody,
jeremiad, jeremiade|, ullalulla,
mourner,
grumbler, noobe,
heraclitus V. lament,
mourn,
deplore,
grieve, weep over,
bewail,
bemoan, condole with,
fret, wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning, wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes, infandum renovare dolorem, give sorrow words,
sigh, give a sigh,
heave, fetch a sigh, "waft a sigh from indus to the pole", sigh "like a furnace",
wail, cry,
weep,
sob,
greet,
blubber, pipe,
snivel,
bibber,
whimper,
pule, pipe one's eye, drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear, melt into tears, burst into tears, fondre en larmes, cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out, yammer,
scream,
mew,
groan,
moan,
whine,
roar, roar like a bull, bellow like a bull, cry out lustily, rend the air,
frown,
scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief,
complain,
murmur,
mutter,
grumble,
growl,
clamor, make a fuss about,
croak,
grunt,
maunder,
deprecate, cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause
Adj. lamenting, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, sorrowing, sorrowful,
mournful,
tearful,
lachrymose,
plaintive,
plaintful,
querulous,
querimonious, in the melting mood,
threnetic, in tears, with tears in one's eyes, with moistened eyes, with watery eyes, bathed in tears, dissolved in tears, "like niobe all tears",
elegiac,
epicedial Adv. de profundis, les larmes aux yeux
Int. heigh-ho,
alas,
alack, o dear, ah me, woe is me,
lackadaisy, well a day, lack a day, alack a day, wellaway, alas the day, o tempora o mores, what a pity, miserabile dictu, o lud lud, too true, phr, tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes, eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears, "if you have tears prepare to shed them now", interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent, "strangled his language in his tears", "tears such as angels weep"