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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIRGE AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep! We give thee to the wave
Last Line: Sleep! Oh, sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean
First Line: Sleep! We give thee to the wave
Last Line: Sleep! Oh, sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean
SLEEP! -- we give thee to the wave,
Red with life-blood from the brave
Thou shalt find a noble grave.
Fare thee well!
Sleep! thy billowy field is won:
Proudly may the funeral gun,
'Midst the hush at set of sun,
Boom thy knell!
Lonely, lonely is thy bed,
Never there may flower be shed,
Marble reared, or brother's head
Bowed to weep.
Yet thy record on the sea,
Borne through battle high and free,
Long the red-cross flag shall be.
Sleep! oh, sleep!
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