Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Dirge

Come away, come away, death,

And in sad cypress 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,

O prepare it!

My part of death, no one so true

Did share it.


Not a flower, not a flower sweet,

On my black coffin let there be strown;

Not a friend, not a friend greet

My poor corse, where my bones shall be thrown;

A thousand thousand sighs to save,

Lay me, O, where

Sad true lover never find my grave

To weep there!

— William Shakespeare
1564-1616   


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