Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A TOMB BY THE SEA, by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS



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A TOMB BY THE SEA, by                    
First Line: I'm dead, and yet must thole the sleepless surge
Last Line: Alone of ghosts I cannot lie at ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Archias
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


I'M dead, and yet must thole the sleepless surge.
When billows threw me battered on the sands,
By spouting reefs I found, beside the verge
Of mine old foe, a grave at strangers' hands;
But still among the dead am I distressed
To hear the boom and thunder of the seas:
Not even Hades couches me to rest;
Alone of ghosts I cannot lie at ease.





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