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DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SIBYLLA'S DIRGE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: We do lie beneath the grass
Last Line: And the drowned and the shipwrecked have happy graves.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


Dirge (for Sibylla)

We do lie beneath the grass
In the moonlight, in the shade
Of the yew-tree. They that pass
Hear us not. We are afraid
They would envy our delight,
In our graves by glow-worm night.
Come follow us, and smile as we;
We sail to the rock in the ancient waves,
Where the snow falls by thousands into the sea,
And the drowned and the shipwrecked have happy graves.





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