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Poem by John Bannister Tabb


The Reaper


Tell me whither, maiden June,
Down the dusky slope of noon
With thy sickle of a moon,
Goest thou to reap.

"Fields of Fancy by the stream
Of night in silvery silence gleam,
To heap with many a harvest-dream
The granary of Sleep."



John Bannister Tabb


John Bannister Tabb's other poems:
  1. Bicycles! Tricycles!
  2. The Sun
  3. The Pleiads
  4. A Legacy
  5. An Insectarian


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