John B. Tabb

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.

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• He entered; but the mask he wore
  Concealed his face from me.
  Still, something I had seen before
  He brought to memory.

  "Who art thou? What thy rank, thy name?"
  I questioned, with surprise;
  "Thyself" the laughing answer came,
  "As seen of others' eyes."

  • "The Stranger", in Poems (1894)

• 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.
  • The Bubble, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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• Examples of John Banister Tabb's poetic verse forms [1]