“When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground” comes from Campion's A Book of Airs, published in 1601. The poem is addressed to a woman who has hurt the speaker deeply. He imagines this woman descending after death into the “underground”—the place to which the dead were said to go in Greek and Roman mythology.
“When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground” comes from Campion's A Book of Airs, published in 1601. The poem is addressed to a woman who has hurt the speaker deeply. He imagines this woman descending after death into the “underground”—the place to which the dead were said to go in Greek and Roman mythology.
Thomas campion
