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John B. Tabb Quotes

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

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”

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”

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

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”

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

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”

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

John B. Tabb
Hush Hush, Fountain, Hermits

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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