Lines (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THOUGH dowered with instincts keen and high,With burning thoughts that wooed the light,The scornful world hath passed him by,And left ...
THOUGH dowered with instincts keen and high,With burning thoughts that wooed the light,The scornful world hath passed him by,And left ...
On a starry, wintry night,Frosty and cold was the air,And the lowly vale where Bethlehem stood,Looked bleak, and barren and ...
I'VE seen my day before its noon decline,And dark is still the future, nor, alas!Can Hope, with all the magic ...
Felices ter et ampliusQuos irrupta tenet Copula, nec malisDivulsus querimoniis,Suprema citius solvet amor die.What's Female Beauty, but an Art divine,Through ...
The fields and lanes show fresh and fain Pranked in the jewels of the rain; And the scent that breathes ...
First-born of the creating Voice!Minister of God's Spirit, who wast sentWaiting upon him first, what time he wentMoving about mid ...
Day of the cloud in fleets! O dayOf wedded white and blue, that sailImmingled, with a footing rayIn shadow-sandals down ...
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
O SUMMER! hither bend thy cheerful way,Our clime shall gladly hail thy sway;O! come in all thy flowery pride,With rural ...
O splendid, spacious day, irradiateWith flaming dawns, when earth shows yet more fairHer ardent beauty, proud, without alloy;And wakening life ...
IN these rapid, restless shadows, Once I walked at eventide,When a gentle, silent maiden, Walked in beauty at ...
As, in the lonely night, Above the silvered fields and streams Where zephyr gently blows, And myriad objects vague, Illusions, ...
"IF e'er for human bliss or woe I feel the sympathetic glow; If e'er my heart has learn'd to know ...
I WILL not seek the comfort of my bedOr press the pillow with my troubled head;I will not let my ...
Of me and of my theme think what thou wilt:The song of gladness one straight bolt can check.But I have ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
SWEET CHILD OF REASON! maid serene; With folded arms, and pensive mien, Who wand'ring near yon thorny wild, So oft, ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
HAIL holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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