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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SORROW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow! Hast thou seen sorrow asleep Last Line: Off her warm neck. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness | |||
SORROW! Hast thou seen Sorrow asleep, When thick sighs break the wholeness of her mouth, And one tear trembles in her upward eye, Part clammy on the dark threads of her lash, Part yet within her dream? One moony night I found her so, a pale, cold babe, and beauteous, In slumber, as Consumption, just before She's christened Death. I pressed her in my arms, And took upon my lip the hurrying tear Off her warm neck. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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