William Shakespeare (1564-1616). A Sea Dirge. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

A Sea Dirge

By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

From “The Tempest,” Act I. Scene 1

FULL fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change	5
Into something rich and strange.
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them,—
Ding-dong, bell!	10