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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEPARATION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: To leave what most we love, in loneliness
Last Line: Ah, whose the weight of heavier distress?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation
First Line: To leave what most we love, in loneliness
Last Line: Ah, whose the weight of heavier distress?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation
To leave what most we love, in loneliness,
To know our absence in some heart will make
E'en love itself a sorrow for our sake--
Ah, whose the weight of heavier distress?
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