The Portrait (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Each has his Angel-Guardian. Mine, I know,Looks on me from that pictured face. Behold,How clear, between those rifted clouds of ...
John Bannister Tabb Poems on Faces (27 Poems)
The Indian Of San Salvador (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
What time the countless arrow-heads of lightKeen twinkled on the bended heavens, back-drawnWith deadly aim, at signal of the Dawn,To ...
Christ And The Pagan (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I had no God but these,The sacerdotal Trees,And they uplifted me."I hung upon a Tree."The sun and moon I saw,And ...
Homeless (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Methinks that if my spirit could beholdIts earthly habitation void and chill,Whence all its time-encircled good and illExpanded to eternity, ...
The White Jessamine (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I knew she lay above me,Where the casement all the nightShone, softened with a phosphor glowOf sympathetic light,And that her ...
The Paschal Moon (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Thy face is whitened with remembered woe;For thou alone, pale satellite, didst see,Amid the shadows of Gethsemane,The mingled cup of ...
To Her First-Born (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Long I waited, wonderingHow, so near my heart,Love another life could bring,Made of mine a part,Nor let me, save in ...
The Dying Boy To The Wind-Flowers (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
And have ye come again,Dim seedling of the Dew?Long waiting have I lainIn wintriness like you,Through many a month of ...
Child And Mother (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Look on Thy Mother's face,That miracle of grace,O Son Divine!That, bending, she may seeA greater mysteryRevealed in Thine.Without Thee, she ...
At The Manger (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
When first her Christmas watch to keepCame down the silent angel, Sleep,With snowy sandals shod,Beholding what His mother's handsHad wrought, ...
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 ...
To A Photograph (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
O tender shade!Lone captive of enamoured Light,That from an angel visage brightA glance betrayed.Dost thou not sighTo wander from thy ...
The Omen (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
He crept behind me, and his gentle handLaid on my lids, lest I too soon should seeThe face in all ...
To A Wood-Violet (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
In this secluded shrine,O miracle of grace,No mortal eye but mineHath looked upon thy face.No shadow but mine ownHath screened ...
Cliffs (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
For ever face to face,As towered of oldWithin the Holy PlaceThe wings of gold.One heralding the dayWith kindled crest;One reddened ...
The Phantom Wraith (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
When roars the wind and beats the rain,A face before my window-pane—A phantom of the storm—I see,My own benighted effigy.So, ...
Indian Summer (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
'Tis said, in death, upon the faceOf Age, a momentary traceOf Infancy's returning graceForestalls decay;And here, in Autumn's dusky reign,A ...
Eclypse (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Fear not: the planet that bedimsThe moon's distorted face,Itself through cloudless ether swimsThe Sea of Space;And earthward many a distant ...
Ruts (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I count the wrinkles in the road,As men are wont to traceThe ravages of Time and ThoughtUpon a human face.Such ...
Strangers (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Ye hills that sloping westward, seeAlone the evening sky,I come to you for sympathy."Alas!" they made reply,"Your tears are for ...
Mammy (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I loved her countenance whereon,Despite the longest day,The tenderness of visions goneIn shadow seemed to stay.And now, when faithless sight ...
XII: The Ascension (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
On Sinai did the cloud,His glory shroud;And in the Holy PlaceIt hid His face.As now He goes, so shall ye ...
An Idolator (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The Baby has no skiesBut Mother's eyes,Nor any God aboveBut Mother's Love.His angel sees the Father's face,But he the Mother's, ...
The Image-Maker (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"Thou shalt no graven image make;"And yet, O sculptor, for the sakeOf such an effigy as I—The superscription like the ...
Lights In Darkness (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The Moon, like Mary, bore to beThe partner of His agony.The Sun, in pity for the race,Like God, the Father, ...
To The New Moon (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Thou lookest on the lonely place,To find no more the sleeping face,Nor kiss again the crescent brow—Thy fairer counterpart till ...
Time’s Mezzotint (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
'Tis in the shadows that we traceThe light of Love's remembered face:'Tis in the register of PainThat Life's immortal deeds ...