IV + 

I saw a dead corpse lying on the floor + 

Of a tomb; worms were in its woman’s head, + 

Its black flesh lay about it shred on shred, + 

And the dead things slept in its bosom hoar. + 

And evermore inside that loathed door, + 

It turn’d itself as one upon a bed, + 

It turn’d itself as one whom sleep hath fled, + 

As one that the sweet pangs of passion bore. + 

And from its passionate mouth’s corrupted sore, + 

And from its lips that are no longer red, + 

Came forth love’s accents; and it spake, and said. + 

—The Pleiades and night’s noon-hours are o’er, + 

And I am left alone in wearyhead. + 

And in its heart the worms lie evermore. + 