Death & Dying
Song of Woe
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Death & Dying
Pardon, goddess of the night,
Those that slew thy virgin knight,
For the which, with songs of woe,
Round about her tomb they go.
Midnight, assist our moan;
Help us to sigh and groan,
Heavily, heavily:
Graves, yawn and yield your dead,
Till death be uttered,
Heavily, heavily.
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Shakespeare, William. “Song of Woe.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/196/.
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Shakespeare, William. “Song of Woe.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/196/.
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