Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DEPRECIATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB


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First Line: Low, I listen in my grave
Last Line: Cease, and let me sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Sleep


Low, I listen in my grave
For the silence soon to be
When a slow-receding wave,
Hushed, is memory.

Now the falling of a tear
Or the breathing half-suppressed
Or a sigh, re-echoed here,
Holds me from my rest.

O ye breakers of the past
From the never-resting deep,
On the coast of slumber cast,
Cease, and let me sleep.





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