A Land Dirge - J. Webster

47 A Land Dirge
The forty-seventh poem in the collection. (* additional details below)

*NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: " Poems 46, 47.

"I never saw anything like this funeral dirge," says Charles Lamb, "except the ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father in the Tempest. As that is of the water, watery; so this is of the earth, earthy. Both have that intenseness of feeling, which seems to resolve itself into the element which it contemplates."