Ruin (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
It stands like Night,The sepulchre of a departed light,Whose glory gone,Each hoary vestige chroniclesOf crumbling stone.The portal now,A broken arch ...
John Bannister Tabb Poems on Death & Dying (66 Poems)
The Bellman (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
He sits alone in the belfry,A feeble man and gray,And tolls the bell when its full notes tellOf the hours ...
The Swallow (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Skim o'er the tide,And from thy pinions flingThe sparkling water-drops,Sweet child of spring!Bathe in the dying sunshine warm and bright,Till ...
Love’s Retrospect (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I knew that he was dying; for the leavesLate-fallen, shivered on the frosty ground,Disconsolate, with the foreboding soundThat Autumn whispers ...
St. Afra To The Flames (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Here, on the prey of passion, famished FlamesFeed here! Spare not your victim. Torture tamesThe wanton flesh rebellious. Let the ...
Chopin (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Soul, that in music, as a flower in light,Didst gem, and bloom, and vanish, with a breathThat mist-like o'er the ...
Glimpses (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
As one who in the hush of twilight hearsThe pausing pulse of Nature, when the LightCommingles in the dim mysterious ...
Golgotha (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Alone I stand upon the sacred height,Where erst, at noon, the night its mantle flungO'er the Divine Humanity that hungTo ...
Unmoored (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
To die in sleep—to drift from dream to dreamAlong the banks of slumber, beckoned onPerchance by forms familiar, till anon,Unconsciously, ...
Shakespeare’ (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I saw the grave of Shakespeare in a dream,And round about it grouped a wondrous throng,His own majestic mourners, who ...
The Dead Tree (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Erect in death thou standest gaunt and bare,Thy limbs uplifted to the wintry sky,To supplicate its pity, or defyThe threat ...
Genevieve (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Genevieve was all to me,Heart to heart we toiled together;Shade in summer heat was she,Sunshine in the cloudy weather.Now alas, ...
Premonition (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
As when at Mary's voice ElizabethFelt in her womb the restlessness of feetThat would outrun delaying birth, and greetAlike unseen, ...
Nunc Et Semper (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Am I awake? or do I dream?To me forever moving seemAlike the margin and the stream.I breathe; and lo, a ...
Poe’s Purgatory (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
All others rest; but IDream-haunted lie—A distant roar,As of tumultuous waters, evermoreAbout my brain.E'en Sleep, tho' fainTo soothe me, flies ...
The Arctic (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Is it a shroud or bridal veilThat hides it from our sight,The lonely sepulchre of Day,Or banquet-hall of Night?Are those ...
A Cradle-Song (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Sing it, Mother! sing it low:Deem it not an idle lay.In the heart 't will ebb and flowAll the life-long ...
To The Violet (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Sweet violet, who knowsFrom whence thy fragrance flowsOr whither hence it goes?A pious pilgrim hereTo Winter's sepulchreThou comest year by ...
Nekros (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Lo! all thy glory gone!God's masterpiece undone!The last created and the first to fall;The noblest, frailest, godliest of all.Death seems ...
In The Valley Of The Shadow (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
1st SpiritI am this moment freed from earth.2d SpiritAnd I a captive bound to birth.Who art thou?1st SpiritFlesh and blood ...
Robin (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Come to me, Robin! The daylight is dying!Come to me now!Come, ere the cypress-tree over me sighing,Dank with the shadow-tide, ...
Resurrection (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
All that springeth from the sodTendeth upwards unto God;All that cometh from the skiesUrging it anon to rise.Winter's life-delaying breathLeaveneth ...
The Burthen Of The Ass (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
On Christmas night at BethelehemWhen Shepherds came, I watched with themThe Mother and the Child,Who, warned from Herod's wrath to ...
A Hairbreadth (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
'T is in the twinkle of escapeThat all our safety lies.Of danger—whatsoe'er the shape—The nearness naught implies:This side is life; ...
To Shelley (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
At Shelley's birth,The Lark, dawn-spirit, with an anthem loudRose from the dusky earthTo tell it to the Cloud,That, like a ...
Animula Vaga (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
A spirit from the graveAgain I come,E'en as I vanished, saveDisrobed and dumb.No shadow as I pass—However clearThe wave on ...
The Vampire Moon (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The vital vapors to absorb,The moon, with famished gaze,Suspends her lean, malignant orbAbove a dying face.I watch her like a ...
The Grave-Digger (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Here underneath the sod,Where night till now hath been,With every lifted clodI let the sunshine in.How dark soe'er the gloomOf ...
Christ To The Victim-Tree (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Soon, but not alone to die,Kinsman Tree,Limbed and leafless must thou lie,Doomed, alas, for Me;Yea, for Me, as I for ...
Rabboni! (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"I bring Thee balm, and, lo, Thou art not here!Twice have I poured mine ointment on Thy brow,And washed Thy ...