English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 105. Dirge of Love |
| | | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
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| COME away, come away, Death, | |
| And in sad cypres let me be laid; | |
| Fly away, fly away, breath; | |
| I am slain by a fair cruel maid. | |
| My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, | 5 |
| O prepare it! | |
| My part of death no one so true | |
| Did share it. | |
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| Not a flower, not a flower sweet | |
| On my black coffin let there be strown; | 10 |
| Not a friend, not a friend greet | |
| My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown; | |
| A thousand thousand sighs to save, | |
| Lay me, O where | |
| Sad true lover never find my grave, | 15 |
| To weep there. | |
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