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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.
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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.
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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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THE RING.

Hold the trinket near thine eye,
And it circles earth and sky;
Place it further, and behold!
But a finger's breadth of gold.
Thus our lives, beloved, lie
Ringed with love's fair boundary;
Place it further, and its sphere
Measures but a falling tear.
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