Lycidas – (Flowers for a Funeral – Excerpt) – by John Milton
On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks,
Throw hither all your quaint enamel’d eyes,
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies,
The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine,
The musk-rose, and the well attir’d woodbine,
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And daffadillies fill their cups with tears,
To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Poem Attribution © John Milton,Lycidas (Flowers for a Funeral-Excerpt)
Source Attributionhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44733/lycidas
Painting Attribution © Joseph Mallord William Turner, A Disaster at Sea, c.1835
Source Attributionhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-a-disaster-at-sea-n00558
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