The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-01-23
GRAVES or THE POETS.
Ioeorre waldo Drowue, in f.i,erary Lsse.l

England, as an act of penance, and ded- icased to the Apostle Rster, Westminster Abbey has been immoxtalixed in, the memory of it's illustFious dead. Many ot Englands great poets have found their 6nal rest within its sacred walls, and he wAO first gave to the south tRansept its peculiar glory vas very appropriately Gecdrey Chaucer. the father of English poetry" Next ot simple poets to lie among kings and nobles was Spenser, Beaumont came third. followed by Dray- ton, Ben. Jonsoa, Cowley, Consreve, Gay, Sheridan, Campbell The ill-st&rred By, ron was denied a resting place here, and bis remains repose tn Hucknall church, near Newstead Abbey. But time has smoothed rugged lines of justice, and bis memory lives all the more conspicu ous by his absence from the more favored ones- Nearly all English poets, though resting elsewhere, are remembered among the memorials oi Poets Corner. OnV own Lonsfellow has been similarly hon. ored, his bust bearing the inscription This bust was placed among the mem. orials of the poets of England by the English admirers of an American poess
 Shakespeare sleeps in . grave of great depth seventeen feet-besids the silvery Aven. His tombstone bears among other inscriptions according to his own directions, the following verse;
 Reader. for Jesus sake forebear
 To cig the dust enclosed here;
 Blessed be he that spares these stones, And c1rsed be he that moves my bones."
 With aa iabosn fear cf grave robbers. who infested the locality, the bard had sought to insure safety to hts body by appealing in vulgar verse to tho supers,i- uon ot the ignorant clerks and sextons. Milton vas buried in the chuychyard of Sl Giles. Cripplegate; but shameful to say after centurys peaceful rest his grave was broken into, and the corpse, horribly mntilated was exhibited at two pence head to all who cared to see.
 "til fare the hands that heaved the stones Where Mitons ashes lay,
 Taa, ssemeled not to grasp his bones And steal his dust away"
 Close by Milton grave lies John Foxe, the family tutor of Shakespeares Sir Thomas Lucy and author of the Book of Martyrs"
 ham Thompson in the Richmond church yard at Surrey and Swift in St PatTick's, Dublin Gray was buried in the church. yard Stoke Pogis. made famous by his Elegy;" Goldsmith al Temple church i; and Cowper ct DAIehAm; Coleridge in the burial ground of old St. Michael's church at Highga,e; and Southey In the Crosshw waite church at Keswick. kirke White found early rest under the green sods Of his native village at Noting am. Tom Hood sleeps in ksnsal Green ceme- tery, his bust bearing the epitaph. He sang the Song of the Shirt"
 The body ot Shelley. who was drowned while going from Leghorn to Lerici, was burned on funeral pyre in the presence of Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt and MT. rrelAwney, according to local law which CT .ined that bodies thus cast ashore should be SO disposed of as a precaution against plague. His ashes were buried ,n the beautiful Protestant cemetery at Rome, of which he had written, "it is enough to make one in love even with death to think that he migh. be buried in such a place." TIelawney afterwards found q grave beside him. la neigh boring inciosuTe John Keats and hts art. iN friend, Joseph Severn, sleep side by side Resting within the shadows oi the pyramid of Cariu Cestus 1t Is more of a monument to these exilcd English poets than of the ancient tribune for whose tomb 1t was raised. Here, too, sleeps the son of Goethe, on whom 90 many hopes cen'ered.
 h the English burial ground at Flor. ence white marble tablet bears this in- soription Here wrote and died Eliza beth Barrett drowning, who, in her womans heart united the wisdom of the sage and the eloquence of the poet with her golden verse she linked italy to Eng land Grateful Florence places ,hls me moriai, A. D, I862"
 ST Walter Scott, whose memory seems dearest of all Scotland's sons, has a brownstone monument at Edin ourgh over two hundred feet high, and adorned with the carved likenesses Of sixteen poets. His tomb is at Dryburgh Abbey Burns, whose songs were a key to all hearts, sleeps at Dumfries in St. Michael's churchyard, an appropriate memorial marking the spot "The Burns Msnu. ment," properly speaking. stands on the bank ofthe "bonny Doon," near the Tam O'Shantes bridge. lt is Of Crecian arch .tecture, circular in form. and about sixty feet in height, with sonoundings of great bearty. Over 70 900 people. It is told. have paid a small admission fee to pass its gates tta, they might do homage to the beloved poet. h the chureh-yard oi Canonsa.e is Fergusons tomb, over which Burns himself raised stone. Al. Ian Ramsay and George Buchanan re- pose at Crayfriar's church.
 Goethe found laureled tomb at Wei mar, consscrased by the tears of hts countTyman. Hei0e, Of German poets second only to Goethe, popular as were his poems, was borne to his long rest with but lev followers, among whom were Aignet. Causies and DumaA Agree able to h,s own request DO religious rites we're per esfoTmsd over his remains. KoF- ner, who fell in the battle of Rosenburg, at the age of twenty t9o. Naa huieA bY