In her mouldering arms

From First Church Cemetery, Ludlow, MA:

Her infant twain doth still remain
Lodg'd in her mouldering arms
Doth loudly call to one and all
To hear grim death's alarms.

Death thy messenger

From Mollison Hill Road Cemetery, Goshen, MA:

The tear of sorrow flows from every eye
Groans answer groans and sighs to sighs reply
What sudden pangs shoot through each aching heart,
When death thy messenger dispatched his dart
O is George dead our trembling lips replied
O what a blessing in his death denied.

As morning dew

From Petersham Center Cemetery, Petersham, MA:

Early, bright, trancient, chaste
as morning dew,
he sparkled and exhaled.

Here lyest.

From Old Deerfield Cemetery, Deerfield, MA:

Here lyest the Body of Mrs. Eunice
Williams the virtuous + desirable
consort of the Rev'rd Mr. John
Williams, + Daughter to ye Rev'rd
Mr. Eleazer + Mrs. Esther Mather
of Northampton. She was born
Augt. 2 1664 and fell by the rage
of ye Barbarous Enemy
March 1, 1703/4
Prov. 31.28 her children arise up
+ call her bless'd.

Equal warning given

From Old Burying Ground, Shutesbury, MA:

Beneath our feet and over our head,
Is equal warning given;
Beneath us lie the countless dead,
Above us is the heaven.

Behind us, unseen

From First Church Cemetery, Ludlow, MA:

Our life how short a groan a sigh
We live and then begin to die
Death steals upon us while we're green
Behind us digs a grave unseen.

An early rose

From North Sunderland Cemetery, Sunderland, MA:

Just like an early rose
I've seen an infant bloom:
But death perhaps before it blows
Will lay it in the tomb.