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Lyrics by John B Tabb

Tabb, John B. (1845-1909)

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TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER.
 
CHERRY BLOOM.
 
DAWN.
 
ECHO.
 
MORNING AND NIGHT BLOOM.
 
EXALTATION.
 
HAZARD.
 
THE YOUNG TENOR.
 
FRATERNITY.
 
MY MESSMATE.
 
“VOX CLAMANTIS.”
 
NIAGARA.
 
THE BRIDGE.
 
THE STATUE.
 
THE SEED.
 
THE TREE.
 
THE SISTERS.
 
THE GOSSIP.
 
THE TOLLMEN.
 
THE PINE-TREE.
 
TRANSFIGURED.
 
ANONYMOUS.
 
MIDNIGHT.
 
INSOMNIA.
 
PAIN.
 
SYMPATHY.
 
MEMORY.
 
LIVERY.
 
SLUMBER-SONG.
 
THE SUPPLIANT.
 
RELEASED.
 
WRECKED.
 
GONE.
 
AGAINST THE SKY.
 
ILLUSION.
 
SUNSET AT SEA.
 
INTERPRETED.
 
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
 
OFF SAN SALVADOR.
 
A SIGH OF THE SEA.
 
SHELL-TINTS.
 
THE LOST ANCHOR.
 
THE SEA-BUBBLE.
 
DE PROFUNDIS.
 
ALTER IDEM
 
FROM PARADISE.
 
SELECTION.
 
MAIDEN BLOOM.
 
THE RAIN AND THE DEW.
 
THE SHOWER.
 
RESIGNATION.
 
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
 
CLEOPATRA TO THE ASP.
 
ADIEU.
 
ASLEEP.
 
IN SOLITUDE.
 
UNHEEDED.
 
ALL IN ALL.
 
THE DEWS.
 
THE LIFE-TIDE.
 
ONSET.
 
TO A BLIND BABE, SLEEPING.
 
FORESHADOWED.
 
SUSPENSE.
 
IMMORTALITY.
 
SECURITY.
 
PILGRIMS.
 
IN THE DEATH CHAMBER.
 
THE DEPARTED.
 
THE FOUNDLING.
 
RETROSPECT.
 
REFLECTION.
 
COMMUNION.
 
TRANSFIGURATION.
 
BREAD.
 
SAND.
 
THE MARSH.
 
BEACON LIGHTS.
 
OUTSPEEDED.
 
THE SIREN STREAM TO THE OUTCAST.
 
AT LAST.
 
THE PILGRIM.
 
MY GUIDE.
 
GIULIO.
 
BETRAYED.
 
THE FIRST SNOW-FALL.
 
AN INTERVIEW.
 
ANTICIPATION.
 
THE TRYST OF SPRING.
 
ONE APRIL MORN.
 
AN APRIL PRAYER.
 
AN AUTUMN LEAF.
 
MATER DOLOROSA.
 
INDIAN SUMMER.
 
OCTOBER.
 
FROM THE UNDERGROUND.
 
THE SNOWDROP.
 
WIND-FLOWERS.
 
AN APRIL BLOOM.
 
PEACH BLOOM.
 
MIGNONETTE.
 
CLOVER.
 
IMMORTELLES.
 
SONG OF THE MORNING-GLORIES.
 
“CONSIDER THE LILIES.”
 
TO A WOOD-VIOLET.
 
A LOTUS BLOOM.
 
A RUBRIC.
 
THE SNOW-BIRD.
 
TO THE WOOD-ROBIN.
 
THE DEAD THRUSH.
 
CHRISTMAS.
 
THE LAMB-CHILD.
 
THE ANGEL'S CHRISTMAS QUEST.
 
RESTRAINT.
 
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS.
 
ON CALVARY.
 
TO THE CRUCIFIX.
 
STABAT MATER.
 
EASTER EVE.
 
EASTER MORNING.
 
EASTER FLOWERS.
 
GOD.
 
TENEBRÆ.
 
DEUS ABSCONDITUS.
 
GOD'S LIKENESS.
 
MY MEDIATOR.
 
THE SONG OF THE MAN.
 
CHARITY
 
FULFILMENT.
 
ON SEA AND LAND.
 
STILLING THE TEMPEST.
 
THE POSTULANT.
 
PURGATORY.
 
BETTER.
 
LONE-LAND.
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QUATRAINS.
 
WOMAN.
 
OPPORTUNITY.
 
LIFE.
 
DEATH.
 
RELEASE.
 
LIGHT.
 
IN DARKNESS.
 
SILENCE.
 
FANCY.
 
FAME.
 
TIME'S LEGACY.
 
A CRISIS.
 
THE CYNOSURE.
 
RESISTANCE.
 
THE BILLOWS.
 
THE VOYAGER.
 
ADRIFT.
 
DEEP UNTO DEEP.
 
VESTIGES.
 
THE MID-DAY MOON.
 
TO AN EVENING SHADE.
 
HEROES.
 
LANIER'S FLUTE.
 
POE-CHOPIN.
 
TO AN EXILE.
 
TO A DYING BABE.
 
MY SECRET.
 
IN ABSENCE.
 
A REMONSTRANCE.
 
NEW AND OLD.
 
THE FIG-TREE.
 
THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS.
 
BONE-CASTANETS.
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SONNETS.
 
DAYBREAK.
 
FORECAST.
 
TO AN IDOL.
 
KEDRON.
 
THE DRUID.
 
THE HERMIT.
 
POE.
 
SHELLEY.
 
AT KEATS'S GRAVE.

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CLOVER.

Little masters, hat in hand,
Let me in your presence stand,
Till your silence solve for me
This your threefold mystery.
Tell me—for I long to know—
How, in darkness there below,
Was your fairy fabric spun,
Spread and fashioned, three in one.
Did your gossips gold and blue,
Sky and Sunshine, choose for you,
Ere your triple forms were seen,
Suited liveries of green?
Can ye—if ye dwelt indeed
Captives of a prison seed—
Like the Genie, once again
Get you back into the grain?
Little masters, may I stand
In your presence, hat in hand,
Waiting till you solve for me
This your threefold mystery?
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