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 (853 Poems)
The Miniature (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I know not whence; but on the morning airA ghastly whisper pales my waking cheek;A shudder in its warning seems ...
Stabat Mater (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
In the shadow of the rood,Broken-hearted there she stoodNear her Son and Lord;While her soul, His doom lamenting,Yet in sacrifice ...
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, ...
The Outcaster (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Dead! Found in the desolate streetWhere the drifting snow had silently piledAs if in pity, poor wandering child,To mantle thee ...
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 ...
The Cloud (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Far on the brink of dayThou standest as the herald of the dawn,Where fades the night's last flickering spark awayEre ...
The Swallow (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Skim o'er the tide,And from thy pinions flingThe sparkling water-drops,Sweet child of spring!Bathe in the dying sunshine warm and bright,Till ...
The Good Seed (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The Magi came to Bethlehem,The House of Bread, and following them,As they the Star, I too am ledTo Christ, the ...
Echoes (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Where of old, responsiveAs the wind and foam,Rose the joyous echoes,Desolate I roam,Nor find one lingering sound to hail the ...
St. Christopher (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
It was a very little BoyThat on the river sideStood calling, "Ferryman, ahoy!Come, take me o'er the tide!"The Ferryman came ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Tabb Low (a duet by two who can’t do it–D–and B–) (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"Tabb's dead! and we who always keepThe Rule of Silence when we sleep,Agreed, for his detested sake,To keep it sometimes ...
Brother Ass And St. Francis (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
It came to passThat "Brother Ass"(As he his Body named,)Unto the SaintThus made complaint:"I am unjustly blamed."Whate'er I do,Like Balaam ...
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 ...
Clover (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
LITTLE masters, hat in handLet me in your presence stand,Till your silence solve for meThis your threefold mystery.Tell me-for I ...
The New-Year Babe (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Two together, Babe and Year,At the midnight chime,Through the darkness drifted hereTo the coast of Time.Two together, Babe and Year,Over ...
Visible Sound (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Aye, have we not felt it and known,Ere Science proclaimed it her own,That form is but visible tone?Behold, where in ...
Christ’s Little Sister (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Little Sister of the Poor,Asking alms from door to door,Ever on you go;Clothed in the garb of meekness,Finding strength in ...
Chanticleer (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
A crowing, cuddling little Babe was he,A child for little children far or near.When he stood and crowed upon his ...
Quo Vadis? (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The sedge was sere; the water still,As waiting for the wintry chill;When, shadow-like along the hill,She moved alone.The owl, upon ...
The Child: At Bethlehem (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
ILong, long before the Babe could speak,When he would kiss his mother's cheekAnd to her bosom press,The brightest angels, standing ...
Quatrains (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
THE BUBBLEWHY should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I. But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss, nor ...
Communion (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
ONCE when my heart was passion-free To learn of things divine,The soul of nature suddenly Outpoured itself in mine.I held the secrets ...
The Ghost Chamber (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Into the lonely room,Spawning an icy gloom,Lost in a wandering swoonGloats the wide-horned moon.Silent the shadows grayShrink from her touch ...
A Winter Twilight (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Blood-shotten through the bleak gigantic treesThe sunset, o'er a wilderness of snow,Startles the wolfish winds that wilder growAs hunger mocks ...
To His Eminence Cardinal Newman (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
MAY 1879Father;—for loftier titles cannot hideThe tenderness of thy paternityFrom eyes that turn with filial gaze to thee—Sons of thy ...
The Portrait (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Each has his Angel-Guardian. Mine, I know,Looks on me from that pictured face. Behold,How clear, between those rifted clouds of ...
At Anchor (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
How calm upon the twilight water sleeps,With folded wings, yon solitary sail,Safe-harbored, haply dreaming of the galeThat wolf-like o'er the ...