Under Sentence (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PLACE--Scotland. TIME--Thirteenth Century.OFF! off! no treacherous priest for me!What's Heaven? what's Hell? Eternity!It hath no meaning to mine ear.Unless--Stay, father! ...
PLACE--Scotland. TIME--Thirteenth Century.OFF! off! no treacherous priest for me!What's Heaven? what's Hell? Eternity!It hath no meaning to mine ear.Unless--Stay, father! ...
Who's there? who's there? who was it triedTo force the entrance I've denied?An 'twere a friend, I'd gladly borne it,But ...
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
In Carleile dwelt King Arthur,A prince of passing might;And there maintain'd his Table Round,Beset with many a knight.And there he ...
Old stories tell how HerculesA dragon slew at Lerna,With seven heads, and fourteen eyes,To see and well discern-a:But he had ...
XLVIToday the lady of my heart was born Into this checkered world of joy and pain; And if my eyes ...
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
I told a truth, a tragic truth That tore the sullen sky; A million shuddered at my sooth And anarchist ...
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! Is't ...
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! Is't ...
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