Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
2 Despite the longest day,
3The tenderness of visions gone
4 In shadow seemed to stay.
6 Beyond my waking gaze,
7Of darkness I am not afraid --
8 It is my Mammy's face.
Notes
1] Jinny, his black nursemaid (Jennie Masters Tabb, Father Tabb: His Life and Work [Boston, Mass.: Stratford, 1922]: 8). Back to Line
5] Father Tabb became totally blind in 1908. Back to Line