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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a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems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
 
CHORISTERS
 
OUR FIRST-BORN
 
MUTATION
 
THE IMAGE-MAKER
 
SUNDERED
 
ANIMULA VAGA
 
POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM
 
AUGURY
 
UNDERTOW
 
DAWN
 
A FOOT-RULE
 
SIGNALS
 
IMPORT
 
THE VAMPIRE MOON
 
SUFFICIT
 
IN TOUCH
 
TIDES
 
NIGHT-BORN
 
ALFRED TENNYSON
 
AUTUMN-GLOW
 
VICTORIA
 
MY SERVANT
 
JACET LEO XIII
 
A CARCANET
 
WAVES
 
TO THE FREEDMAN
 
THE JEWESS
 
REPOSE
 
A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE
 
SEEMING FAILURE
 
THE DYING BOY TO THE WIND-FLOWERS
 
COBWEBS
 
THE PRECIPICE
 
THE TOUCH-ME-NOT
 
CHRISTMAS GREETING
 
MOUNTAIN-BORN
 
MY SOUL
 
GOOD FRIDAY
 
HEREDITY
 
TO A DROP OF POISON
 
IN SHADOW
 
SUBMISSION
 
GENEVIEVE
 
STABAT MATER
 
THE MESSAGE
 
SUBWAY THEOLOGY
 
VOX DEI
 
DAISIES
 
THE ASTRONOMER
 
ST. CHRISTOPHER
 
TO SIDNEY LANIER
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APPENDIX II. UNPUBLISHED POEMS OF THE BROWNE-TABB ALBUM
 
THE MINIATURE
 
RUIN
 
THE GHOST CHAMBER
 
THE BRIDE ELECT
 
CHOPIN
 
DISTANCE
 
THE INDIAN
 
PREMONITION
 
THE SCORE
 
SWINBURNE
 
ADEST
 
MY BIRTH-CHAMBER
 
“BREAK, BREAK, BREAK”
 
A LEPER'S GRAVE
 
LEGEND
 
LIGHTS IN DARKNESS
 
THE QUEST
 
THE RIDDLE
 
SONG
 
SURVIVAL
 
VALE
 
WHENCE AND WHERE?
 
THE WHISTLER
 
THE DOVE
 
THE DEATHLESS WIND
 
IN EXCELSIS
 
OLD AND NEW
 
“SWEET TO THE SWEET”
 
THE BIOLOGIST
 
A PRESENCE
 
A SONG OF EXPECTANCY
 
LOSS AND GAIN
 
MOUNTAINEERS
 
SNOWDROP
 
“PEACE!”
 
ROOFLESS
 
THE OMEN
 
NIAGARA
 
RUTS
 
TRANSPLANTED
 
SHAKESPEARE'S KEY
 
BETWEEN
 
EYES
 
MY SONG
 
MY TRUANT
 
LOVE'S USURY
 
“WRIT IN WATER”
 
SEPARATION
 
TO SLEEP
 
WILTED
 
VAPORS
 
ASPIRATION
 
IN BANISHMENT
 
BEETHOVEN (DEAF)
 
CONTACT
 
THE FIRST DREAMER
 
ENSHRINED
 
EXPECTANCY
 
LEAR'S FOOL
 
FULFILMENT
 
PRESENTIMENT
 
“THROUGH THE SHARP HAWTHORNE BLOWS THE COLD WIND”
 
SCIENCE
 
SLEEP
 
APRIL
 
“CROSSING THE BAR”
 
ABDUL'S CHANCES
 
IN THE CONFESSIONAL
 
EUREKA
 
AN INCONGRUITY
 
INCOME FROM GO-OUT
 
THE TIDES AT PANAMA
 
MY TROUBLE
 
A FINE PENALTY
 
MAID OF ALGERIA
 
THE FRISKING LAMB
 
A BRIEF PEDIGREE
 
A PIECE OF PRESUMPTION
 
SEA-SICKNESS
 
D---D
 
SONG OF THE SIOUX
 
DEFIANCE
 
JOB-PRINTING
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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
 
CHRIST'S LITTLE SISTER
 
THE BELLMAN
 
THE OUTCAST
 
A VISIT TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT ON THE EVE OF THE EPIPHANY
 
ADIEU

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THE QUEST

O Time, where hast thou laid
My Self of yesterday?
Where at his tomb I prayed
I come again to pray—
'Tis empty! Who hath hither strayed
And taken him away?
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