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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WHITE JESSAMINE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew she lay above me
Last Line: Had blossomed in the gloom!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Jasmine
First Line: I knew she lay above me
Last Line: Had blossomed in the gloom!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Jasmine
I KNEW she lay above me,
Where the casement all the night
Shone, softened with a phosphor glow
Of sympathetic light,
And that her fledgling spirit pure
Was pluming fast for flight.
Each tendril throbbed and quickened
As I nightly climbed apace,
And could scarce restrain the blossoms
When, anear the destined place,
Her gentle whisper thrilled me
Ere I gazed upon her face.
I waited, darkling, till the dawn
Should touch me into bloom,
While all my being panted
To outpour its first perfume,
When, lo! a paler flower than mine
Had blossomed in the gloom!
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