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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPECTATORS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Around us, wheresoe'er we tread
Last Line: Beyond the vale of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Around us, wheresoe'er we tread
Last Line: Beyond the vale of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Around us, wheresoe'er we tread,
The while our shadows pass them by,
As in Bethsaida's porch the dead
With upturned faces lie,
Dreading, perchance, the vanished light
And life's subsided fever-breath,
As we the charnel-house of night
Beyond the vale of death.
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