John B. Tabb quotes
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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?”
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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.”
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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. TabbSource : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”
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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. TabbSource : 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. TabbSource : 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.”
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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. TabbSource : "The Bubble". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
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“A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.”
-- John B. TabbSource : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”
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Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
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“I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.”
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“Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.”
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“Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.”
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Source : Allen Johnson, Edward Samuel Corwin (1926). “The age of Jefferson and Marshall: Part 1: Jefferson and his colleagues, by Allen Johnson. Part 2: John Marshall and the Constitution, by Edward S. Crowin”
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“In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.”
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