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[Poems by Tabb in] Father Tabb

a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems
Tabb, John B. (1845-1909)

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“NICK'S RATIFICATION
 
THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE
 
FOR A YOUNGSTER
 
REPLY
 
EXPLANATION
 
WHY THE JOURNEY IS MADE
 
KEEP YOUR RYE OPEN
 
IN HELL
 
IN PURGATORY
 
IN HEAVEN
 
ON EARTH
 
DOING WELL
 
“VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE”
 
A SECOND-TERM SCENTED
 
A TABB-LOW
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APPENDIX I. UNCOLLECTED POEMS
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APPENDIX II. UNPUBLISHED POEMS OF THE BROWNE-TABB ALBUM
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APPENDIX III. UNPUBLISHED POEMS OF THE CONNOR MANUSCRIPT
 
THE TREE
 
MY STEWARDSHIP
 
DREAMS
 
THE ACORN
 
(THE MESSAGE OF THE GRASS)
 
THE TREE
 
TO THE NEW MOON
 
SEPARATION
 
LINES
 
EGLANTINE
 
SECOND CHILDHOOD
 
MATURITY
 
DOMUS AUREA
 
AN ALIEN
 
WHEAT
 
THE SWORD OF SIMEON
 
BONDAGE
 
COBWEB
 
“OMNIPOTENCE IN BONDS”
 
THE ORIGIN OF TEARS
 
TO A SON IN CHRIST
 
LEAR'S FOOL
 
MORNING-GLORIES
 
ALFRED TENNYSON
 
TENNYSON
 
TOO LATE
 
SIGNIFICANCE
 
SOLICITUDE
 
BEYOND
 
TOMORROW
 
GARNERED
 
EXTORTION
 
LONELINESS
 
TO A DEAD THRUSH
 
THE PHANTOM WRAITH
 
ATTAR OF ROSES
 
SELF-SACRIFICE
 
THE MORNING STAR
 
DESMOS
 
BLIND
 
THE WRAITH
 
WHERE ARMIES MET
 
CHRIST THE MENDICANT
 
TRANSMISSION
 
THE GLEANER
 
MY SERVANT
 
DIVORCE
 
SNOWDROPS
 
SACRIFICE
 
SUCCESSORS
 
UNFETTERED
 
MOLOKAI
 
RESTORATION
 
THE MATERNITY
 
LIFE-SONG
 
THE RIVER
 
THE PASSION
 
AN ECHO
 
APRIL
 
THE WIZARD
 
ON THE HEIGHTS
 
THE WAY-SIDE TREE
 
WORSHIPPERS
 
LIGHT IN DARKNESS
 
TWO EPITAPHS
 
HARVEST
 
NUNC ET SEMPER
 
DEFLOWERED
 
A MEDITATION
 
FAREWELL!
 
THE WRECK
 
DELUSION
 
THE HOUR
 
UNDER THE TREES
 
TIME'S MEZZOTINT
 
THE LARK'S FIAT
 
MATER DEI
 
THE CHRIST-LIKE SPRING
 
AN EASTER LILY
 
SLEEP
 
AFTER BEDTIME
 
BLESSED VIRGIN
 
A MIRACLE
 
RESTITUTION
 
POST MORTEM
 
SUI GENERIS
 
THE EPITAPH
 
ODE TO A PASSION
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APPENDIX IV. UNPUBLISHED POEMS FROM THE DONAHOE CLASS-BOOK

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SEPARATION

To leave what most we love, in loneliness,
To know our absence in some heart will make
E'en love itself a sorrow for our sake—
Ah, whose the weight of heavier distress?
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