Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
2 Some deadly-dogged howl,
3Sounding as from the threat’ning throat
4 Of beasts and fatal fowl.
5As ravens, screech-owls, bulls, and bears,
7Till irksome noise have cloyed your ears
8 And corrosived your hearts.
9At last when as our choir wants breath,
10 Our bodies being bless'd,
12 And die in love and rest.
Notes
1] This grotesque song is sung by a madman in Act four of the play, accompanied by “a dismal kind of music.” Back to Line
6] bill: bellow Back to Line
11] Swans: it was a Renaissance commonplace that swans sang only once, just before death Back to Line