Cenotaph

Within a grove Andromache that day, / where Simois in fancy flowed again, / her offerings chanced at Hector's grave to pay, / a turf-built cenotaph, with altars twain, / source of her tears and sacred to the slain – / and called his shade.

A cenotaph is a monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere.

A cenotaph is a monument erected to honor the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere.

The Cenotaph is made of Portland stone.

That is a cenotaph.

A cenotaph was erected for him in Gaul, while his body was taken to Rome and inclosed in a magnificent tomb.

[…] tombs and cenotaphs were strewed thick around adorned by every renewing vegetation; […]

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

But age is heart-wearied and tempest-torn: it is the crumbling cenotaph of fear and hope!

A tomb from which the body is absent, living elsewhere. The grave whose headstone bore the famous inscription, Here lies me two children dear One in ould Ireland, t'other one here. was a cenotaph, so far as regarded the "One in ould Ireland".