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John Bannister Tabb's Poetry, by title

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  • A Bachelor Hen
    Upon the nest she was a hen,
    But higher aims induced her
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • A Blackberry Bush
    Behold, above the hidden root,
    How white the bloom, how black the fruit!
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • A Blind Man's Epitaph
    His eyes were dim; so here he lies,
    Whose death came after his dim-ise.
    2 lines, 2 comments
  • A Brief Pedigree
    My mother was a Mare;
    My father was, alas,
    8 lines
  • A Bunch Of Roses
    The rosy mouth and rosy toe
    Of little baby brother
    8 lines
  • A Carcanet
    I give thee, love, a carcanet,
    With all the rainbow splendor set,
    16 lines
  • A Cattle Plague
    "What ails you?" tenderly I spoke
    To a dejected calf.
    6 lines
  • A Cavalcade
    "Thistle-down, Thistle-down whither away?
    Will you not longer abide?"
    4 lines
  • A Change Of Parts
    When Barrel-organs with us stayed,
    The Monkey danced, the Master played;
    6 lines
  • A Christmas Chime
    At Christmas time from clime to clime
    Each star to star doth sweetly chime,
    6 lines
  • A Christmas Cradle
    Let my heart the cradle be
    Of Thy bleak Nativity!
    6 lines
  • A Coincidence
    The latest news
    About the mews!
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • A Compensation
    A squirrel, while he sprang from tree to tree,
    Cried to a skunk below, "Pray, look at me:
    8 lines
  • A Cradle-Song
    Sing it, Mother! sing it low:
    Deem it not an idle lay.
    16 lines
  • A Crisis
    O leaf, against the twilight seen,
    Move not; for at thy side
    4 lines
  • A Deduction
    "I can't, for my life,"
    Quacked the Drake to his wife,
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • A Deprivation
    Can you, sweet roses, ever take
    A breath of other roses?
    4 lines
  • A Disagreement
    "You give me no rest," growled the Patient.
    "I cannot," retorted the Pill.
    5 lines
  • A Disconcerted Concert
    Bull father frog
    Was on the log,
    12 lines
  • A Diversion
    "How doth the little busy bee
    Improve each shining hour?" Alas!
    5 lines
  • A Duet
    A little yellow Bird above,
    A little yellow Flower below;
    6 lines
  • A Family Failing
    Sneezed the Pepper, "Sister Salt
    Bids me say 'tis not her fault
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • A Fine Penalty
    He offered but a poor defence,
    That advocate of mine;
    12 lines
  • A Fledgling
    "Why is it, little chick," I said
    "That you so ragged go?"
    8 lines
  • A Foot-Note
    From Bunyan \Pilgrim's Progress\ came
    As essence from an onion;
    4 lines
  • A Foot-Rule
    When a poet gives his \hand\,
    Meet it is to greet the greeter.
    4 lines
  • A Foot-Rule
    Biped, or Quadruped,
    Two feet or four:
    12 lines
  • A Hairbreadth
    'T is in the twinkle of escape
    That all our safety lies.
    12 lines
  • A Heart-Cry
    Come back to me! but not as now ye are.
    O friends afar!
    8 lines
  • A Hiding Place
    Where lies the lidded Sleep
    Throughout the waking hours?
    7 lines, 2 comments
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