John B. Tabb Quotes

• A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

  John B. Tabb

  Flower, Rainbow, Lightning

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

  John B. Tabb

  Pain, Heart, Clouds

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• And pray, who are you?"
  Said the Violet blue
  To the Bee, with surprise,
  At his wonderful size,
  In her eyeglass of dew.
  "I, madam," quoth he,
  "Am a publican Bee,
  Collecting the tax
  Of honey and wax.
  Have you nothing for me?

  John B. Tabb

  Summer, July, Blue

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• Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
  O flakes of snow,
  For which, through naked trees, the winds
  A-mourning go?

  John B. Tabb

  Winter, Wind, Snow

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.

  John B. Tabb

  Faith, Stars, Loneliness

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• Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

  John B. Tabb

  Boys, Joy, Babe

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

  John B. Tabb

  Hush Hush, Fountain, Hermits

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• Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,
  But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,
  Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, -
  A life-complete in death-complete to die.

  John B. Tabb

  Loss, Perfect, Gains

  "The Bubble". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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