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‘Requiem’ by Robert Louis Stevenson is a short poem that describes someone’s wishes after they pass away. The poem starts with a stanza describing the landscape in which the speaker wants to be buried.
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. This poem is in the public domain.
Requiem Lyrics. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you 'grave for me: Here he lies where...
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) composed “Requiem,” one of the most frequently quoted short poems in the English language, as his own epitaph. Despite its forbidding, even moribund title, “Requiem” explores the coaxing lure of death and its enticing promise of undisturbed repose, welcomed after a life teeming with both joys and sorrows.
The poem “Requiem” is about a wish of the poet R.L. Stevenson concerning where he should be laid after his death. He describes the wide sky, lit with several stars. His wish is to lie beneath such a glorious sky.
The Best Robert Louis Stevenson Poems. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) As well as writing Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) also wrote the perennially popular A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), a collection of poems for younger readers.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
