Two elegies

Two moving poems written to mark the passing of two young sisters in New Hampshire in 1814.
“[An Elegy], Composed on the sudden deaths of Lydia Page Sanborn . . . and Rebecca Sanborn . . .”
by John Paige, Jun. – with a second elegy by Elder Joseph Badger.

It becomes them

A collection of death masks in the Beinecke Library.

[NOTE: Updated 11-2-07. See below.]

 H. D. [1886-1961] http://www.imagists.org/hd/

 

Hermann Broch [1886-1951] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Broch

Victor Serge [1890-1947] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Serge

 Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eichenbaum, (a.k.a Volin)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volin

*NOT* Leon Trotsky [1879-1940], as originally reported.

For a much grander selection, visit Princeton and Thanatos.net