Stabat Mater (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
In the shadow of the rood,Broken-hearted there she stoodNear her Son and Lord;While her soul, His doom lamenting,Yet in sacrifice ...
In the shadow of the rood,Broken-hearted there she stoodNear her Son and Lord;While her soul, His doom lamenting,Yet in sacrifice ...
I laid me down in solitude, but not alone:The night was with me, and the stars above me shone;The Earth, ...
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 ...
The Magi came to Bethlehem,The House of Bread, and following them,As they the Star, I too am ledTo Christ, the ...
Now the dusky wing of twilightHovers o'er the weary day,And the ever deeping shadowsSlowly steal across our way.Here amid the ...
Strong to suffer, strong to sin,Loving much, and much forgiven,In the desert realm a queen,Penance-crowned, to cope with Heaven,Solitude alone ...
Aye, have we not felt it and known,Ere Science proclaimed it her own,That form is but visible tone?Behold, where in ...
The sedge was sere; the water still,As waiting for the wintry chill;When, shadow-like along the hill,She moved alone.The owl, upon ...
ONCE when my heart was passion-free To learn of things divine,The soul of nature suddenly Outpoured itself in mine.I held the secrets ...
MAY 1879Father;—for loftier titles cannot hideThe tenderness of thy paternityFrom eyes that turn with filial gaze to thee—Sons of thy ...
Soul, that in music, as a flower in light,Didst gem, and bloom, and vanish, with a breathThat mist-like o'er the ...
Thou wast to me what to the changing yearIts seasons are,—a joy forever new;What to the night its stars, its ...
"She hath done what she could."It was thus that He spake of her,Trembling and pale as the penitent stood."And this ...
Hail, trackless waste! a heart made desolateSpeeds from a sterner solitude to thee!O, let me, lost in contemplation, beAmong thy ...
Where silence broods on ruin, thou alone,Sweet oracle, in rippling numbers low,Dost onward through the waste of ages flow,As an ...
Mute oracle of meek humanity,Save to its sense of blindness wholly blind,That drifting wide in misery, to findSome beacon o'er ...
Come quickly in and close the door,For none hath entered here before,The secret chamber set apartWithin the cloister of the ...
High on the hoary mountain-top he dweltAlone with God, whose handiwork aboveThe wonders of the firmament approveIn an eternal silence. ...
Long I waited, wonderingHow, so near my heart,Love another life could bring,Made of mine a part,Nor let me, save in ...
When God created man,Of destiny so dim,And deigned His work to scan,Behold, He pitied him;Nay, more, for love of him ...
Genevieve was all to me,Heart to heart we toiled together;Shade in summer heat was she,Sunshine in the cloudy weather.Now alas, ...
I give thee, love, a carcanet,With all the rainbow splendor set,Of diamonds that drink the sun,Of emeralds that feed uponHis ...
Sing it, Mother! sing it low:Deem it not an idle lay.In the heart 't will ebb and flowAll the life-long ...
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, ...
What, O Eternity,Is Time to thee?—What to the boundless AllMy portion small?Lift up thine eyes, my soul!Against the tidal rollStands ...
Hush!With sudden gushAs from a fountain, sings in yonder bushThe Hermit Thrush.Hark!Did ever LarkWith swifter scintillations fling the sparkThat fires ...
'Twas August: and a Gypsy BreezeCame wandering thro' the wood."Our fortunes!" cried the lover TreesThat first before her stood."Sir Hickory ...
The Twilight to my Star,Her hoary headA Hope receding far,To Life re-led.Apart and poor I lay;My fevered frameSlow withering away,When ...
I am that Tamerlane,The Scourge of God;With me alone remainThe sword and rodWherewith in wrath throughout His world-domain,Doth Love, avenging, ...
My GOD the Baby isThat rests upon my knee.Into those eyes of HisI gaze mine own to see.And He looks ...
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