The Grave + 

The loathed worms are crawling over me + 

All the dead hours; about my buried head + 

Their soft intolerable mouths are gathered, + 

And in my dead eyes that have ceas’d to see. + 

I am full of worms and rotten utterly, + 

Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. + 

The lifeless earth lies close against mine eyes; + 

I know that I have rotted long ago; + 

My limbs are made one with the worms I know + 

Where all my head and body putrifies. + 

So in the earth my coffin’d ordure lies + 

Within my loathed shambles strait and low. + 

There is no thing now where my face hath been, + 

And all my flesh lies soft upon the floor; + 

Unto my heart the worms have found a door, + 

And all my body is to the worms akin; + 

They long time since their feasting did begin, + 

And they shall part not from me evermore. + 

Here lie I stretch’d out through the rotting years, + 

And I am surely weary of the grave, + 

And I have sometimes thought that I might rave, + 

And my two perish’d eyes almost shed tears. + 

There is no one that sees and none that hears; + 

I shall not out from my corrupted cave. + 

Here now forever with the lustful worms + 

I lie within my putrid sunken sty, + 

And through eternity my soul shall die. + 

O thou toward whom all my dead spirit squirms! + 

Forevermore I love thee through all terms + 

Until the dead stars rot in the black sky. + 