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 ...
John Bannister Tabb Poems on Solitude (10 Poems)
Repose (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I laid me down in solitude, but not alone:The night was with me, and the stars above me shone;The Earth, ...
St Mary Of Egypt (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
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 ...
Shadows (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Ye shrink not wholly from us when the mornArises red with slaughter, and the slainSweet visages of tender dreams remainTo ...
Poe (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Sad spirit, swathed in brief mortality,Of Fate and fervid fantasies the prey,Till the remorseless demon of dismayO'erwhelmed thee—lo! thy doleful ...
The Snowdrop (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"A nun of Winter's sisterhood,"A Snowdrop in the garden stoodAlone amid the solitudeThat round her lay.No sister blossom there was ...
The Birthday (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Another blossom blooms for theeUpon the never-failing TreeOf Life—the same in breath and hueAs was the first that drank the ...
To The Summer Wind (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Art thou the selfsame wind that blewWhen I was but a boy?Thy voice is like the voice I knew,And yet ...
The Dove (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
O bird that seem'st in solitudeO'er tearful memories to brood,What sorrow hast thou known?Or is thy voice an oracleInterpreting the ...
Harbours (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Full many a noonday nook I knowWhere memory is fain to goAnd wait in silence till the shadeOf sleep the ...