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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SIBYLLA'S DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER by WILLIAM MEREDITH EX-VOTO FOR A SHIPWRECK by AIME CESAIRE CAESAR'S LOST TRANSPORT SHIPS by ROBERT FROST AFTER THE SHIPWRECK by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE by WILLIAM COWPER AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE (1889) by CAROLINE KING DUER BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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