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 ...
He sits alone in the belfry,A feeble man and gray,And tolls the bell when its full notes tellOf the hours ...
Two together, Babe and Year,At the midnight chime,Through the darkness drifted hereTo the coast of Time.Two together, Babe and Year,Over ...
Aye, have we not felt it and known,Ere Science proclaimed it her own,That form is but visible tone?Behold, where in ...
ILong, long before the Babe could speak,When he would kiss his mother's cheekAnd to her bosom press,The brightest angels, standing ...
Blood-shotten through the bleak gigantic treesThe sunset, o'er a wilderness of snow,Startles the wolfish winds that wilder growAs hunger mocks ...
I lift mine eyes, and lo! impetuous tearsBedim them, as the tides of thought o'erflowThe soul's expansion. On thy peaks ...
Altar whereon the lordly sacrificeOf incense from the reverent vales belowIs offered at the dawn's first kindling glowAnd when the ...
Still westward with the lessening light ye go,Dejected people, and the forests tall,Bewidowed of their dusky children, fallBehind you with ...
Knew not the Sun, sweet Violet,The while he gleaned the snow,That thou in darkness sepulchred,Wast slumbering below?Or spun a splendor ...
I give thee, love, a carcanet,With all the rainbow splendor set,Of diamonds that drink the sun,Of emeralds that feed uponHis ...
And have ye come again,Dim seedling of the Dew?Long waiting have I lainIn wintriness like you,Through many a month of ...
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 nun of Winter's sisterhood,"A Snowdrop in the garden stoodAlone amid the solitudeThat round her lay.No sister blossom there was ...
Together first they plan a nest,And where and how to build it best,Ere she begins from day to dayTo count ...
Despite the North Wind's boast,Despite the muffled hostOf hushing snow,There cometh from belowOut of the darkness wakened, one by oneThe ...
To the cradle-bough of a naked tree,Benumbed with ice and snow,A Christmas dream brought suddenlyA birth of mistletoe.The shepherd stars ...
'Tis Christmas night! the snow,A flock unnumbered lies:The old Judean stars aglow,Keep watch within the skies.An icy stillness holdsThe pulses ...
How hast thou, little spring,The heart to sing,Leaving thy lofty homeFor yonder plain,Whence ne'er againReturning canst thou come?"Nay not as ...
The little birds that hither bringThe earliest messages of Spring,Seem, fountain-like, to overflowWith music melted from the snow.So sweet the ...
I once was water, and againMy former self shall be;No keep of ColdMay captive holdA spirit of the Sea.Beyond this ...
"In the centre of each snow-crystal or drop of rainis found a minute particle of dust."Earth wedded, life atwainIn heaven, ...
As on some solitary heightAbides, in summer's fierce despite,Snow-blossom that no sun can blight,No frost can kill;So, in my soul,—all ...
Born of the waters are we,Clean of original stain;Fresh from the salt of the sea,Pure from the marsh and the ...
Snow! Snow! Snow!Do thy worst, Winter, but know, but knowThat, when the Spring cometh, a blossom shall blowFrom the heart ...
Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,O flakes of snow,For which, through naked trees, the windsA-mourning go?Or are ye angels, ...
Like the manna, mute as snow,Swift the Moments come & go,Each sufficient for the needsOf the multitude it feeds;One to ...
I heard the distant summons loudTo battle, from the crested Cloud,The vaunting trumpet of the Gale,The rattling musketry of Hail,The ...
Ever old and ever new,Else it never could be true.Failing leaf and falling snow,Budding germ and blossom glow,Tell us of ...
"As John of old before His face did goTo make the rough ways smooth, that all might knowThe level road ...
As in the furnace fared the holy feet,Unblemished by the sevenfold fervour, so,Nearest the sun, cold-whitening in heat,Is thine eternal ...
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