Thomas Lovell Beddoes Death Poems

  • 1.
    Veronica. COME then, a song; a winding gentle song,
    To lead me into sleep. Let it be low
    As zephyr, telling secrets to his rose,
    For I would hear the murmuring of my thoughts;
    ...
  • 2.
    LET dew the flowers fill;
    No need of fell despair,
    Though to the grave you bear
    One still of soul-but now too still,
    ...
  • 3.
    Act IV, scene iii


    A cypress-bough and a rose-wreath sweet,
    ...
  • 4.
    So thou art come again, old black-winged night,
    Like an huge bird, between us and the sun,
    Hiding, with out-stretched form, the genial light;
    And still, beneath thine icy bosom's dun
    ...
  • 5.
    By heaven and hell, and all the fools between them,
    I will not die, nor sleep, nor wink my eyes,
    But think myself into a god; old Death
    Shall dream he has slain me, and I'll creep behind him,
    ...
  • 6.
    WHEN we were girl and boy together,
    We tossâ??d about the flowers
    And wreathâ??d the blushing hours
    Into a posy green and sweet.
    ...
Total 6 Death Poems by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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