| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| William Shakespeare. 1564–1616 |
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| 134. Dirge |
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| 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, | 5 |
| O prepare it! | |
| My part of death, no one so true | |
| Did share it. | |
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| Not a flower, not a flower sweet, | |
| On my black coffin let there be strown; | 10 |
| 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 | 15 |
| To weep there! | |
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