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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S RETROSPECT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew that he was dying; for the leaves
Last Line: The more than all by wealth unwidowed cast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: I knew that he was dying; for the leaves
Last Line: The more than all by wealth unwidowed cast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
I KNEW that he was dying; for the leaves
Late-fallen, shivered on the frosty ground,
Disconsolate, with the foreboding sound
That Autumn whispers to the heart that grieves.
The sunshine, slanting upward, smote the sheaves
O'ershadowing the hill-tops ranged around,
And where the swallow's empty nest was found,
Spattered, as if with blood, the sheltering eaves.
Twin fires together faded: and but one
Rewakened o'er a world henceforth to me
In everlasting twilight. To the Past
The Present pays its tribute, whereupon
Each moment coins the selfsame effigy, --
The more than all by wealth unwidowed cast.
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