Poem by William Shakespeare

Dirge

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,
   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! 

1. The Church at Stratford
2. How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
3. Orpheus
4. Dirge of the Three Queens
5. Juliet's Soliloquy

Rupert Atkinson Dirge ("SLOW, slow across the black bleak range")

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