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Poem by John Bannister Tabb


Light and Shadow


  "I love you, little maid,"
      Said the Sunbeam to the Shade,
  As all day long she shrank away before him;
      But at twilight, ere he died,
      She was weeping at his side;
  And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him.



John Bannister Tabb


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


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