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John B. Tabb


Born
in Amelia County, Virginia, The United States
March 21, 1845

Died
November 19, 1909

Genre
Poetry, Religion & Spirituality


Rev. Father John Banister Tabb was a Roman Catholic priest (ordained in 1884), teacher, and poet.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 170 ratings · 13 reviews · 46 distinct works
Poems
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1894 — 69 editions
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Child Verse: Poems Grave an...
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1899 — 45 editions
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Lyrics
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1897 — 63 editions
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The Poetry of Father Tabb
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1902 — 5 editions
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Long to Love and Memory: Po...
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An Octave to Mary: Verses
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 13 editions
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Bones rules; or, Skeleton o...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1901
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Later Poems
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1910 — 16 editions
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Bones rules; or, Skeleton o...
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
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Truth: For Those Seeking th...
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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 Banister Tabb
tags: autumn, fall, foliage, leaves, snow, snowflakes, winter
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“Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind,
To everyone, I pray.
And may I ask you how you find
Yourself, dear Lord, today?”
― John Banister Tabb
tags: poetry, prayer
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“A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes.
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies;
While wakes the nodding blossom
But just too late to see
What lip hath touched her bosom
And drained her rosary.”
― John B. Tabb, Poems
tags: birds, hummingbirds, john-b-tabb, the-hummingbird
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