Death & Dying
A Sea Dirge
From The Golden Treasury, ed. F. T. Palgrave (1861)
Death & Dying
Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange;
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Hark! now I hear them,--
Ding, dong, Bell.
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Shakespeare, William. “A Sea Dirge.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/185/.
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Shakespeare, William. “A Sea Dirge.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/185/.
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