Question

I am having trouble with In Mermoriam A. H. H. lines 9-16. I am not good at understanding poems



Let love clasp Grief lest both be drowned
Let darkness keep her raven gloss
Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss
To dance with death, to beat the ground,
than that the victor Hours should scorn
the long result of love, and boast,
Behold the man that loved and lost.
But all he was is overworn