Waiting (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I bide mine hour, when thou,Beloved, far away,As unto sleep shalt bowSubmissive to my sway.The clouds that, floating, seemUnpiloted and ...
John Bannister Tabb Poems on Love (91 Poems)
Deflowered (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
All the light of heavenIn a single beamUnto earth was given,As a perfect dream,Wherein one bated breathOf ecstacy is Death.All ...
The Wreck (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Was it thy lord the seaThat wrought this tragedy,A spouse to spurn?Or didst thou faithless proveAnd to thine ancient love,The ...
My Offering (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
He asked me bread—the bread whereby aloneThe beggar Love could live:—I gave a stone.He asked me fish, and I, a ...
Christ The Mendicant (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
A stranger, to his ownHe came; and one alone,Who knew not sin,His lowliness believed,And in her soul conceivedTo let Him ...
The Departed (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
THEY cannot wholly pass away, How far soe'er above;Nor we, the lingerers, wholly stay Apart from those we love:For spirits in eternity, ...
O’ercome (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I pause for tears. But thou, my lute,Why art thou, like thy master, mute?Hath harmony within thee bredThe hope thou ...
The Lake (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I am a lonely woodland lake:The trees that round me grow,The glimpse of heaven above me, makeThe sum of all ...
Frost (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I left my window wide, for LoveTo enter while I slept:The moon his homeward path above,Her midnight vigil kept.But suddenly, ...
Narcsissus (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The god enamoured never knewThe shadow that beguiled his view,Nor deemed it less divinely trueThan Life and Love.And so the ...
Worshippers (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The gift of utterance is ours,Love's service to proclaim;But in the fragrance of the flowersThere breathes a purer flame.Abiding in ...
The Dayspring (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
What hand with spear of lightHath cleft the side of Night,And from the red wound wideFashioned the Dawn, his bride?Was ...
Outlines (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
O frame me in thy love, as IThe landscape in the branches low;That none beneath the bending skyOur sylvan secret ...
Sheet-Lightn (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
A glance of love or jealousy,It flashes to and fro—A swift sultanic majesty,Through Night's seraglio;Where many a starry favourite,In reverence ...
Baby (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Baby in her slumber smiling,Doth a captive take:Whispers Love, "From dreams beguilingMay she never wake!"When the lids, like mist retreating,Flee ...
A Christmas Chime (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
At Christmas time from clime to climeEach star to star doth sweetly chime,Till all the heavens are ringed with rhymeThen ...
Clouds (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Born of the waters are we,Clean of original stain;Fresh from the salt of the sea,Pure from the marsh and the ...
In The Nest (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
O world beneath the mother's wing,Secure from harm,The heart so near the sheltered thingTo keep it warm!No longer needed now ...
My Song (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I go; but thou, my Song,Shall live as longAs Tongue and fervid HeartLife's passion-power impart.Henceforth, of Love and theeEternal HarmonyMakes ...
Love Immortal (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The soul that sees no hell below,No heaven above,All other mysteries may know,But never Love.If from the prison-walls of TimeNo ...
Sufficit (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
We are alone!The night-winds moanFor envy, and the sobbing rainProtests in vain.How deep their darkness! But our night,Than day more ...
Revisted (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
A lonely road I tread again,As once with Love's companion, Pain,Who faltered, "Love is fled."To-day, a shadow not mine ownAlong ...
Al in All (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
WE know Thee, each in part- A portion small;But love Thee, as Thou art- The All in all:For Reason and the rays ...
Eureka (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I love, as when a boy,That note exultant of domestic joy,When, triumph won,The Hen, like Archimedes, proclaims,"I've found it! If ...
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, ...
Baby’s Dimples (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Love goes playing hide-and-seek'Mid the roses on her cheek,With a little imp of Laughter,Who, the while he follows after,Leaves the ...
A Duet (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
A little yellow Bird above,A little yellow Flower below;The little Bird can sing the loveThat Bird and Blossom know;The Blossom ...
Absolved (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Far floating o'er its native fen,The evening Cloud, like Magdalen—Her penitential tearsAssuaged of Love, her sins forgiven—Upborne upon a waveless ...
Ad Astra (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
LOVE ye the lives that far belowUpon your bounty upward grow?Or feel ye, as they touch the hemOf light their ...
To An Amateur (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Love thy violin:Let thy soul thereinLearn the unityOf the mystic three,When the string and bow—Parted lovers—meet,And in music knowLife in ...