Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 366 |
AUTHOR: | James Barron Hope (182787) |
QUOTATION: | ’Tis after death that we measure men. |
ATTRIBUTION: | As commander of the camp, he addressed the Confederate veterans on their first decoration day with this poem.Samuel A. Link, Pioneers of Southern Literature, vol. 2, p. 423 (1903). |
SUBJECTS: | Death |