And death shall have no dominion

And death shall have no dominion.

Dead man naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion. 

Dylan THOMAS  (1933)

Gitanjali

Je serre ses mains; je la presse contre ma poitrine.
J'essaie d'emplir mes bras de sa beauté, de pilller avec
mes baisers son sourire, de boire avec mes yeux ses regards.
Héla! mais où est tout cela? Qui peut forcer l'azur
du ciel?
J'essaie d'étreindre la beauté : elle m'élude, ne laissant
que le corps entre mes mains.
Confus et lassé, je retombe.
Comment pourrait le corps toucher la fleur que seule
l'âme peut toucher?

Rabindranath TAGORE, L'offrande lyrique (1910)