Sunday Snippets - A Catholic Carnival 26

Tabb Centenary Year LXX: Five poems by Rev. John B. Tabb.

Tabb Centenary Year LXIX: Five poems by Rev. John B. Tabb.

Confer.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 12/27/09 09:00:01 AM
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Tabb Centenary Year LXX

Five quatrains by Rev. John B. Tabb.

Imagination

Here fancy far outdoes the deed;
So hath eternity the need
Of telling more than time has taught
To fill the boundaries of thought.

September 1893 (p. 358, Quatrains: Miscellaneous)

Alter Ego

Thou art to me as is the sea
   Unto the shell:
A life whereof I breathe, a love
   Wherein I dwell.

December 1892 (p. 361, Quatrains: Miscellaneous)

Loss

For one extinguished light
Of Love, all heaven is night;
For one frail flower the less,
The world a wilderness.

January 1909 (p. 369, Quatrains: Miscellaneous)

Wrinkles

This, biting Frost—this, branding Sun—
This, Wind or drenching Rain hath done;
Each perfecting the Sculptor’s plan
Upon the godlike image, Man.

November 1903 (p. 370, Quatrains: Miscellaneous)

Beauty

She sleeps, her hiding-place unknown
   To other worshippers,
Till Art, her lover, comes alone
   To press his lips to hers.

1910 (p. 371, Quatrains: Miscellaneous)

[“Alter Ego”: Latin, the other I; “Wrinkles”: the last line alludes to Genesis 1:26.]

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 12/27/09 08:50:31 AM
Categorized as Father Tabb Centenary Year & Literary.