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Poems by John B. Tabb
Tabb, John B. (1845-1909)
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THE RING.
LIMITATION.
NEKROS.
WESTWARD.
TO A PHOTOGRAPH.
MY STAR.
CONTENT.
ROBIN.
THE WHITE JESSAMINE.
THE CLOUD.
PHANTOMS.
THE VOYAGERS.
THE SWALLOW.
CLOISTERED.
THE LONELY MOUNTAIN.
ECHOES.
PHOTOGRAPHED.
THE HALF-RING MOON.
ENSHRINED.
IN MY ORANGE-GROVE.
INTIMATIONS.
EVOLUTION.
LOVE'S HYBLA.
WAYFARERS.
THE PEAK.
THE CAPTIVES.
MY PHOTOGRAPH.
BROTHERHOOD.
EVICTED.
GRIEF-SONG.
RECOGNITION.
AN INFLUENCE.
HELPMATES.
TO MY SHADOW.
THE LAKE.
THE DAYSPRING.
THE CHORD.
COMPENSATION.
VISIBLE SOUND.
TO THE SUMMER WIND.
NARCISSUS.
CHILDHOOD.
TO AN OLD WASSAIL-CUP.
FOUNTAIN-HEADS.
THE REAPER.
THE BUTTERFLY.
THE STRANGER.
JOY.
REGRET.
SLEEP.
YORICK'S SKULL.
KEATS—SAPPHO.
KILLDEE.
THE MOCKING-BIRD.
THE HUMMING-BIRD.
THE LARK.
THE BLUEBIRD.
TO A WOOD-ROBIN.
BLOSSOM.
TO A ROSE.
THE WATER-LILY.
THE PLAINT OF THE ROSE.
THE VIOLET SPEAKS.
TO THE VIOLET.
GOLDEN-ROD.
STAR-JESSAMINE.
THE DANDELION.
AUTUMN GOLD.
AUTUMN SONG.
INDIAN SUMMER.
DECEMBER.
AT THE YEAR'S END.
THE LIGHT OF BETHLEHEM
MISTLETOE.
EASTER.
EASTER LILIES.
RESURRECTION.
AWAKENING.
EARTH'S TRIBUTE.
THE RECOMPENSE.
RABBONI!
TO THE CHRIST.
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
THE ANNUNCIATION.
THE INCARNATION.
THE ASSUMPTION.
MAGDALEN.
ABSOLVED.
THE PRECURSOR.
SON OF MARY.
CHRIST TO THE VICTIM-TREE.
ANGELS OF PAIN.
A LENTEN THOUGHT.
“IS THY SERVANT A DOG?
HOLY GROUND.
THE PLAYMATES.
TO THE BABE NIVA.
A PHONOGRAPH.
A CRADLE-SONG.
CONFIDED.
BABY.
MILTON.
TO SHELLEY.
SAPPHO.
TO SIDNEY LANIER.
ON THE FORTHCOMING VOLUME OF SIDNEY LANIER'S POEMS.
FATHER DAMIEN.
THE SNOWDROP.
QUATRAINS.
“FOR THE RAIN IT RAINETH EVERY DAY.”
THE MAST.
A STONE'S THROW.
LOVE'S AUTOGRAPH.
RENEWAL.
PREJUDICE.
THE BUBBLE.
O'ERSPENT.
IMAGINATION.
RUIN.
BECALMED.
TO THE SPHINX.
DISCREPANCY.
POETRY.
SAP.
SLEEP.
THE PYRAMIDS.
FORMATION.
THE PROMONTORY.
STARS.
WHISPER.
THE SUN.
THE SUNBEAM.
ALTER EGO.
REFLECTION.
ESTRANGEMENT.
BEETHOVEN AND ANGELO.
THE SHADOW.
SONNETS.
THE INDIAN OF SAN SALVADOR.
KEATS.
SILENCE.
UNUTTERED.
SOLITUDE.
LOVE'S RETROSPECT.
A WINTER TWILIGHT.
GLIMPSES.
THE AGONY.
THE DEAD TREE.
HOMELESS.
THE PETREL.
AT ANCHOR.
SHADOWS.
THE MOUNTAIN.
UNMOORED.
EUGENIE.
GOLGOTHA.
THE PORTRAIT.
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RUIN.
A power
beyond Perfection's dream is thine,—
A shadow that the dwindling shape outgrows
Of substance, like a vast horizon-line
Receding as the Fancy onward goes.
Poems by John B. Tabb
