Poetry Performed Episode 005 - Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Episode 005 - Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Haunts both happy and sad are on the mind of the zeitgeist as October comes to a close. Today, we’ll close out October with Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

We do lie beneath the grass
In the moonlight, in the shade
Of the yew-tree. They that pass
Hear us not. We are afraid
They would envy our delight,
In our graves by glow-worm night.
Come follow us, and smile as we;
We sail to the rock in the ancient waves,
Where the snow falls by thousands into the sea,
And the drown’d and the shipwreck’d have happy graves.

That was Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Thomas Lovell Beddoes was an English poet born in the UK in 1803. Educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, he first published in 1821. He spent much of his adult life fascinated with the idea of a human spirit that lived on past the life of the human body. He died in 1849.

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