John B. Tabb Quotes

d. 1909 United States

John Banister Tabb (22 March 1845 – 19 November 1909) was an American poet, Catholic priest, and professor of English, chiefly remembered today as educator of Jack London's friend, Californian poet George Sterling.

United States
19th-century poets
Clergy

Also known as: John Banister Tabb, John Bannister Tabb, Tabb, John Banister, Tabb, John Bannister

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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.

Evolution; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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.

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