SKULL

Related Subjects: Bone, Death, Head

1. Remove yon skull from out the scatter'd heaps:
   Is that a temple where a God may dwell?
   Why ev'n the worm at last disdains her shatter'd cell!
   Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall,
   Its chambers desolate, and portals foul:
   Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall,
   The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

2. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he bath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have
   kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet