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Famous Tabor Poems by Famous Poets

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by Spenser, Edmund
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Harke! how the Minstrils gin to shrill aloud 
Their merry Musick that resounds from far, 130 
The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling Croud, 
That well agree withouten breach or jar. 
But, most of all, the Damzels doe delite 
When they their tymbrels smyte, 
And thereunto doe daunce and carrol sweet, 135 
That all the sences they doe ravish quite; 
The whyles the boyes run up and downe the street, 
Crying aloud with strong confus¨¨d noyce, 
As if it wer...Read more of this...



by Browning, Robert
...f,
Proved a mere mountain in labour?
Better submit; try again; what's the clef?
'Faith, 'tis no trifle for pipe and for tabor---
Four flats, the minor in F.

XXVII.

Friend, your fugue taxes the finger
Learning it once, who would lose it?
Yet all the while a misgiving will linger,
Truth's golden o'er us although we refuse it---
Nature, thro' cobwebs we string her.

XXVIII.

Hugues! I advise _Me Pn_
(Counterpoint glares like a Gorgon)
Bid One, Two, Three, Four,...Read more of this...

by Spenser, Edmund
...HArke how the Minstrels gin to shrill aloud,
Their merry Musick that resounds from far,
The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling Croud,
That well agree withouten breach or iar.
But most of all the Damzels doe delite,
When they their tymbrels smyte,
And thereunto doe daunce and carrol sweet,
That all the sences they doe rauish quite,
The whyles the boyes run vp and downe the street,
Crying aloud with strong confused noyce,
As if it were one voyce.
Hymen...Read more of this...

by Chatterton, Thomas
...
All under the willow-tree. 

Sweet his tongue as the throstle's note, 
Quick in dance as thought can be, 
Deft his tabor, cudgel stout; 
O he lies by the willow-tree! 
 My love is dead, 
 Gone to his death-bed 
All under the willow-tree. 

Hark! the raven flaps his wing 
In the brier'd dell below; 
Hark! the death-owl loud doth sing 
To the nightmares, as they go: 
 My love is dead, 
 Gone to his death-bed 
All under the willow-tree. 

See! the white moon shines ...Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...ix
The place of the children's last retreat,
They called it, the Pied Piper's Street— 
Where any one playing on pipe or tabor
Was sure for the future to lose his labour.
Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern
To shock with mirth a street so solemn;
But opposite the place of the cavern
They wrote the story on a column,
And on the great Church-Window painted
The same, to make the world acquainted
How their children were stolen away;
And there it stands to this very day.
A...Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...her seek, 
 Two meeting suns were shown. 
 
 "Shall I not stop?" exclaimed the impatient cloud. 
 "Seek!" trembling Tabor heard the voice of God. 
 
 V. 
 
 Sand, sand, and still more sand! 
 The desert! Fearful land! 
 Teeming with monsters dread 
 And plagues on every hand! 
 Here in an endless flow, 
 Sandhills of golden glow, 
 Where'er the tempests blow, 
 Like a great flood are spread. 
 Sometimes the sacred spot 
 Hears human sounds profane, when 
 As...Read more of this...

by Davidson, John
...ket, Mr., no:
I mean that having children and a wife,
With thirty bob on which to come and go,
Isn't dancing to the tabor and the fife:
When it doesn't make you drink, by Heaven! it makes you think,
And notice curious items about life.

I step into my heart and there I meet
A god-almighty devil singing small,
Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,
And squelch the passers flat against the wall;
If the whole world was a cake he had the power to take,
He woul...Read more of this...

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