Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: So sweet to tired mortality the night Last Line: Within its shadow lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
So sweet to tired mortality the night Of life's laborious day, That God himself, o'erwearied of the light, Within its shadow lay. | Other Poems of Interest...DOUBLE ELEGY by MICHAEL S. HARPER A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND |
|