To His Eminence Cardinal Newman (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
MAY 1879Father;—for loftier titles cannot hideThe tenderness of thy paternityFrom eyes that turn with filial gaze to thee—Sons of thy ...
MAY 1879Father;—for loftier titles cannot hideThe tenderness of thy paternityFrom eyes that turn with filial gaze to thee—Sons of thy ...
As one who in the hush of twilight hearsThe pausing pulse of Nature, when the LightCommingles in the dim mysterious ...
"She hath done what she could."It was thus that He spake of her,Trembling and pale as the penitent stood."And this ...
How far soe'er thou wanderest from His law,The gift of God we reverence in thee,Painting thy thought in gorgeous pageantry,To ...
Dance to the beat of the rain, little Fern,And spread out your palms again,And say, "Tho' the sunHath my vesture ...
Are you dying, little Bird?"Yea; the song so often heard,And the gift of suffering,Back to God again I bring."All in ...
A squirrel, while he sprang from tree to tree,Cried to a skunk below, "Pray, look at me:There's no such grace ...
Rain on the roof and rainOn the burial-place of grain;To one a voice in vain;To one, o'er hill and plainThe ...
Could Day demand a gift of Night,And Night the boon bestow,'T would be that heaven of star-delightWhere Dreams departed go.Could ...
Little squirrel in the tree,Faithless other friends to me,Therefore to the birds and theeHave I come.Men have reason; ye have ...
I cannot hold within My handsThy gift, but here My mother standsTo take it as My own.It is thro' her ...
Lo, all I have is Thine—My wealth, my poverty.Ne'er canst thou, Lord, resignOf Self so much to me:For, giving Thou ...
"Job-Printing!" I suspected so,For none was ever half so slowBut Job, who by the gift he hadOf patience drove the ...
A leaf may hide the largest starFrom Love's uplifted eye;A mote of prejudice out-barA world of Charity. (John Bannister Tabb)
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