GRAVEYARDS
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
Waverley Cemetery overlooks the Pacific
Ocean near Sydney's Bronte Beach.
The fantastically atmospheric Highgate Cemetery,
London, Bram Stoker's inspiration for Kingstead
Cemetery in Dracula.
The graveyard at Haworth, Yorkshire, with the
famous Bronte Parsonage in the background.
The Rossetti family gravesite in London's
Highgate Cemetery. Elizabeth Siddal, the wife
of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was buried here in
1862. Rossetti placed the only copies of some
of his most famous poems in her coffin; seven
years later they were recovered in rather
controversial circumstances.
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, has many
famous residents including Man Ray, Marguerite
Duras, Georges Auric (film composer and frequent
Cocteau collaborator), Samuel Beckett and
Maupassant. The grave in the foreground with
the cheery gnome and offerings of Metro tickets
belongs to Serge Gainsbourg, the quintessential
lounge lizard who did those duets with Bardot
in the 60s.
Pere La Chaise, Paris, is a fascinating cemetery.
Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, and Edith Piaf are
just some of the illustrious people buried here.
Edinburgh. The dark
domed structure is the
Mackenzie Mausoleum.
The ghost of Sir George
'Bluidy' Mackenzie has
reputedly haunted the
kirkyard for centuries.
As a dare local boys used
to shout through its door:
Bluidy Mackenzie
come oot if ye daur
Lift the sneck and
draw the bar!
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