"Empty tomb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sky as an empty tomb; Trackless the path, and all unknown; What means this journey through its gloom, Which ...
— Poems • John L. Stoddard
... painted for the church of S. Francesco at Perugia in 1503, but now in the Vatican. In the upper part, Christ and the Madonna are throned on clouds and surrounded by angels with musical instruments; underneath, the disciples stand around the empty tomb. In this lower part of the picture there is a very evident attempt to give the figures more life, motion, and enthusiastic expression than was before attempted ...
— Six Centuries of Painting • Randall Davies
... they whirled through a garden, They came on an empty tomb, The stone was gone, a soft light shone ...
— Bees in Amber - A Little Book Of Thoughtful Verse • John Oxenham
... a cenotaph is a monument "in memory of one buried elsewhere"—otherwise, "an empty tomb." A recent number of a popular magazine contains an article on "Memorials of Edgar Allen Poe." When the author asked to be directed to the grave of the poet, the sexton pointed to the cenotaph of white marble in the corner at the ...
— The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. - A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers • Various
... 'God preserve her youth from death! but I have heard the Lady Zubeideh say that she is with a young merchant of Damascus, by name Ghanim ben Eyoub, and has been with him these four months, whilst this our lord is weeping and watching anights over an empty tomb.' When the Khalif heard the girls' talk and knew that the tomb was a trick and a fraud and that Cout el Culoub had been with Ghanim ben Eyoub for four months, he was sore enraged and rising up, summoned his officers of state, whereupon ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume I • Anonymous |
