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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONELINESS (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk beside a lonely lake
Last Line: Thou comest now no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness
First Line: I walk beside a lonely lake
Last Line: Thou comest now no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness
I walk beside a lonely lake
Where, ere thy natal day,
I loved for contemplation's sake
At eventide to stray.
The mist, rewakened from the wave,
Enfolds me as before,
But from thy solitary grave
Thou comest now no more.
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