Then Harrow-on-the-Hill's a rocky island And Harrow churchyard full of sailor's graves, And the constant click and kissing of the trolley busses hissing Is the level to the Wealdstone turned to waves.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Harrow-on-the-Hill'.

It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. The ashes of an oak in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell†and when a whirlwind hathblownthedustofthechurchyard intothe church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce,This is the Patrician, this the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebeian bran.

-Donne,John
c.1621 Of death. Sermon, 8 Mar.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

-Jowett, Benjamin
Quoted in Evelyn  Abbott and Lewis Campbell (eds) Letters of Benjamin Jowett (1899), ch.6.

A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza18.

Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliffe churchyard Yeats is laid, An ancestor was rector there Long years ago; a church stands near, By the road an ancient Cross. No marble, no conventional phrase, On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Under Ben Bulben', stanza 6. Collected in Last Poems (1939).The last three lines were used as his epitaph.