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 ...
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 ...
Waiting for words—as on the broad expanseOf heaven the formless vapors of the night,Expectant, wait the oracle of lightInterpreting their ...
Alone I stand upon the sacred height,Where erst, at noon, the night its mantle flungO'er the Divine Humanity that hungTo ...
Is it a shroud or bridal veilThat hides it from our sight,The lonely sepulchre of Day,Or banquet-hall of Night?Are those ...
Said the budding Rose, "All nightHave I dreamed of the joyous light:How long doth my lord delay!Come, Dawn, and kiss ...
"Give us this day our daily bread," and light:For more to me, O Lord, than food is sight:And I at ...
As stars amid the darkness seen,When flows the deepening dawn betweenTo cover them from sight,O'erleap the spaces of the dark,And, ...
In this secluded shrine,O miracle of grace,No mortal eye but mineHath looked upon thy face.No shadow but mine ownHath screened ...
Her mistress would not have her stay;And so the fair hand-maiden, Day—My Hagar—banished from my sight,Has left me to her ...
Old Sorrow I shall meet again,And Joy, perchance—but never, never,Happy Childhood, shall we twainSee each other's face forever!And yet I ...
Do the blossoms come and goAs the waters ebb and flow?Or, as stars, the livelong year,Are they ever blooming hereIn ...
I loved her countenance whereon,Despite the longest day,The tenderness of visions goneIn shadow seemed to stay.And now, when faithless sight ...
On Sinai did the cloud,His glory shroud;And in the Holy PlaceIt hid His face.As now He goes, so shall ye ...
For me her life to consecrate,My Lady LightWithin her shadowy convent gateIs lost to sight.I may not greet her; but ...
"I long," said the new-gathered Lettuce,"To meet our illustrious guest."Cried the Caster, "Such hasteIs in very bad taste:See first that ...
E'en so; and where the fountain flows along,Unsatisfied, the burning lips of Love(Each passion growing with the taste thereof)Drink, as ...
There once were two brothers named WrightWho rose in aerial flight;But a poet I knowThat much higher could go,For he ...
"Men speak," said the Wasp, "of the provident Ant,Because of her miserly taste;But greatly I wonder why see it they ...
They might not need meYet they might;I'll let my heart beJust in sight.A smile so small asMine might bePrecisely theirNecessity. ...
He rose, and singing passed from sight:—A shadow kindling with the sun,His joy ecstatic flamed, till lightAnd heavenly song were ...
Behold, above the hidden root,How white the bloom, how black the fruit!Of Time, forever out of sight,How bright the day, ...
Of birds he is the most polite;For, be it foe or friend,To every one that comes in sightHe bows at ...
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