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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.
SONNETS.
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LIMITATION.
Breathe
above me or below;
Never canst thou farther go
Than the spirit's octave-span,
Harmonizing God and Man.
Thus within the iris-bound,
Light a prisoner is found;
Thus within my soul I see
Life in Time's captivity.
Poems by John B. Tabb
