To Bayard Taylor Beyond Us (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A VISION OF CHRISTMAS EVE, 1878.AS here within I watch the fervid coals,While the chill heavens without shine wanly white,I ...
A VISION OF CHRISTMAS EVE, 1878.AS here within I watch the fervid coals,While the chill heavens without shine wanly white,I ...
WHAT mournful influence chills my soul to-night?I watch the expiring flames that fade and fall,From which outleap vague shafts of ...
THE World is older than our earliest dates;All thoughts, all feelings, all desires, all fates,Were known and tested, long ere ...
In youth, when blood was warm and fancy high,I mocked at death. How many a quaint conceitI wove about his ...
Tell me, O Night! what horses hale the moon!Those of the sun rear now on Syria's day,But here the steeds ...
GOD'S benison upon each happy dayDead now and gone!--its gentle ghost our feetDoth follow, singing faintly; and how sweet--Tenderly sweet, ...
May 28th, 1879Joy to Ierne, joy,This day a deathless crown is won,Her child of song, her glorious son,Her minstrel boyAttains ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
I Secret was the garden; Set i' the pathless awe Where no star its breath can draw. ...
HOW lightly men can love, how soon forget! I said--yet some there be not false or fickle: For one, the ...
The droning tram swings westward: shrillthe wire sings overhead, and chillmidwinter draughts rattle the glassthat shows the dusking way I ...
Slow figures in some live remorseless frieze,The approaching days escapeless and unguessed,With mask and shroud impenetrably dressed;Time, whose inexorable destiniesBear ...
Thy soul is like a secret garden-close,Where roots of cleft rnandragoras enwreathe;Where bergamot and fumitory breathe,And ivy winds its tower ...
I I saw a slowly-stepping train -- Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -- Following in files ...
"I grant you ample leave To use the hoary formula 'I am' Naming the emptiness where thought is not; But ...
I Leaguered in fire The wild black promontories of the coast extend Their savage silhouettes; The sun in universal carnage ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
"Throughout these infinite orbs of mingling light, Of which yon earth is one, is wide diffus'd A Spirit of activity ...
A DIAMOND glow of winter o'er the world: Amid the chilly halo nigh the west Flickers a phantom violet bloom ...
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