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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HER PILOT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Death seemed afraid to wake her
Last Line: To find her voyage done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Death seemed afraid to wake her
Last Line: To find her voyage done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Death seemed afraid to wake her;
For, traversing the deep,
When home he came to take her,
He kept her fast asleep.
And, haply, from her dreaming
Of many a risk to run
She woke, with rapture beaming,
To find her voyage done.
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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