The Furlough (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"Home," he said, and westward turning,Looked upon the setting sun."Heed the child," a sentry muttered,"Safety on the rampart none.""Naught I ...
John Bannister Tabb Poems on Success (13 Poems)
A Visit To The Blessed Sacrament On The Eve Of The Epiphany (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Now the dusky wing of twilightHovers o'er the weary day,And the ever deeping shadowsSlowly steal across our way.Here amid the ...
The Dead Tree (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Erect in death thou standest gaunt and bare,Thy limbs uplifted to the wintry sky,To supplicate its pity, or defyThe threat ...
Triumph (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Despite the North Wind's boast,Despite the muffled hostOf hushing snow,There cometh from belowOut of the darkness wakened, one by oneThe ...
Holy Saturday (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
O earth, who daily kissed His feetLike lowly Magdalen,—how sweet(As oft His mother used) to keepThe silent watches of His ...
Helpmates (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Says the Land, "O sister Sea,Had'st thou not borne the voyagers to me,Vain were their visions grand,And I, e'en now, ...
Christmas Eve: Sunset (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Once more upon the western skiesThe "flaming sword" appears,And Eve again from ParadiseDeparts in twilight tears.A backward look,—a memoryO'ershadowing afarA ...
The Conqueror (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
He cloistered here a virgin Thought—His vow of Chastity,Whereto from year to year he broughtFirst-fruit of victory.And here, his latest ...
Successors (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Says the Shadow to the Sun,"When the victory is doneAll the world that thou hast wonWill be mine!"Says the Sun, ...
A Lily Of The Field (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
In all his glory, SolomonWas never so arrayed;Yet far more beautiful is one—A MOTHER and a MAID—Whose loveliness and lowlinessGod ...
Foiled (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Ah, Death, thou art a lover,And with thy rival Life,For proud possession of herDidst wage perpetual strife,Till Fate adjudged thee ...
Two Epitaphs (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"Love lingers here where Life has fled."Where, Death, thy victory?"Life lingers here where Love is dead."Then hail, O Death, to ...
At Cock-Crow (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Crow! For the night has thrice deniedThe glory of the Sun,And now, repentant, turns asideTo weep what he has done. ...