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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GHOST CHAMBER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the lonely room
Last Line: Of the forsaken room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Rooms
First Line: Into the lonely room
Last Line: Of the forsaken room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Rooms
Into the lonely room,
Spawning an icy gloom,
Lost in a wandering swoon
Gloats the wide-horned moon.
Silent the shadows gray
Shrink from her touch away,
Loathing her leprous light
Spotting the robe of Night,
Moulting a hoary gloom
Over a haunted room.
Cometh no whisper there:
Spasms of dank despair
Curdle the echoes round,
Stifling the birth of sound
In the grim charnel-womb
Of the deserted room.
Stark are the staring walls,
Like unto lidless balls --
Domes of departed sleep --
Doomed evermore to keep
Watch o'er the prisoned gloom
Of the forsaken room.
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