"Peter Cooper (Died 1883)," ll. 11-12, In Classic Shades and Other Poems (1890) - Miller, Joaquin | WIST Quotations
For all you can hold in your cold dead hand Is what you have given away. This phrasing of the sentiment seems to have been made by Miller, but the sentiment itself predates him in various ways. See, for example, Martial, Epigram 5.42 (AD 90): "You keep thus always what…
