| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 64138 |
| QUOTATION: | Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Walt Whitman (18191892), U.S. poet. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, st. 14 (1881). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Whitman Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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