I visited Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond yesterday. It is a historic and beautiful place, designed also to serve as a city park in the 1800s, albeit a tranquil and solemn place for reflection and remembrance.
After the Civil War, it became a cemetery for confederate soldiers and officers (more CSA generals are buried there than any other confederate cemetery, plus it is the final resting place of CSA president Jefferson Davis), but it is much more than that. It is also the burial site of US Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler, six Virginia governors and many other notable individuals -- check out the information HERE.
I've posted pictures from Hollywood Cemetery and poetry before -- HERE.
Below are pictures from my trip yesterday.
By Emily Dickinson: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers – Untouched by Morning – and untouched by noon – Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection, Rafter of Satin and Roof of Stone – Grand go the Years, In the Crescent above them – Worlds scoop their Arcs – and Firmaments – row – Diadems – drop – And Doges surrender – Soundless as Dots, On a Disk of Snow. | |
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| By Emily Dickinson: A Coffin – is a small Domain, Yet able to contain A Citizen of Paradise In it diminished Plane. A Grave – is a restricted Breadth – Yet ampler than the Sun – And all the Seas He populates And Lands He looks upon To Him who on its small Repose Bestows a single Friend – Circumference without Relief – Or Estimate – or End – |
Below: Every time I saw a tombstone from 1918, I wondered if they were victims of the Spanish flu pandemic. | Below: The tomb and the marker are from women who were born in 1794. |