The Snow-Messengers (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
From heaven of a childhood lifeA farewell to me you're sending,The ever-loyal dear friendsWithin a red worn down binding.On learning ...
THUS roll I, never taking ease,My tub, like Saint Diogenes,Now serious am, now seek to please;Now love and hate in ...
WHEN Diogenes quietly sunn'd himself in his barrel,When Calanus with joy leapt in the flame-breathing grave,Oh, what noble lessons were ...
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
Part FirstYou'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff, The name of that highly deluded old fluff Who chartered a ...
With the same manners, which, when you're a guestYou use at some rich neighbour's sumptuous feast,Manage the rest of your ...
WHEN Diogenes quietly sunn'd himself in his barrel, When Calanus with joy leapt in the flame-breathing grave, Oh, what noble ...
THUS roll I, never taking ease, My tub, like Saint Diogenes, Now serious am, now seek to please; Now love ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Preethee stand still awhile, and view this tree Renown'd and honour'd for antiquitie By all the neighbour twiggs; for such ...
I should have been a plumber fixing drains. And mending pure white bathtubs for the great Diogenes (who scorned all ...
I SAW a telegram handed a two hundred pound man at a desk. And the little scrap of paper charged ...
More blest than was of old Diogenes, I have not held my lantern up in vain. Not mine, at least, ...
(Being a Chant of the American Soap-Box and the Russian Revolution.) O market square, O slattern place, Is glory in ...
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