In The Gray Of The Evening. Autumn. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN o'er yon forest solitudesThe sky of autumn evening broods--A heaven whose warp, but palely bright,Shot through with woofs of ...
WHEN o'er yon forest solitudesThe sky of autumn evening broods--A heaven whose warp, but palely bright,Shot through with woofs of ...
The Bardling came where by a river grewThe pennoned reeds, that, as the west-wind blew,Gleamed and sighed plaintively, as if ...
(KEEWATIN.)A land untamed, whose myriad islesAre set in branching lakes that veinIllimitable silent woods,Voiceful in Fall, when their defiles,Rich with ...
AMBUSHED in yonder cloud of white,Far-glittering from its azure height,He shrouds his swiftness and his might!But oft across the echoing ...
In dreamy days of boyhood and of youth Sweet Poesy whispered often in mine ear; And I could then with voice distinct ...
Even thus, methinks, in some Ionian isle, Yielding his soul to unrecorded joy, Beside a fall like this, lingered awhile On briery banks ...
I THINK, ofttimes, that lives of men may beLikened to wandering winds that come and go,Not knowing whence they rise, ...
It freezes- all across a soundless skyThe birds go home. The governing dark's begun:The steadfast dark that waits not for a ...
They dub thee idler, smiling sneeringly,And why? because, forsooth, so many moons,Here dwelling voiceless by the voiceful sea,Thou hast not ...
Companion of my vigil, silently,At midnight, when the voiceful world is still,Alone with me thou watchest. PeaceablyThy radiance stems the ...
IEnter these enchanted woods,You who dare.Nothing harms beneath the leavesMore than waves a swimmer cleaves.Toss your heart up with the ...
IRise up, Lord,And let Thine enemies be scattered,And let them that hate Thee flee before Thee!As the dispersion of smoke-drift,Thou ...
BEAUTIFUL Spirit! that didst guard of eldThe song-inspiring fount of Castalie-Thou, unto whom supremacy is givenAnd sway o'er realms of ...
You named it better than you knew Who called yon little town Lachine, Though through the lapse of years betweenThe ...
Girded by wastes of sounding foam, Slumbers unseen the fruitful isle;Day in, day out, the cloudless dome Looks down with ...
I wandered in a garden-square, By pathways walled with straight-clipt yew,And over-arched by jasmine fair, ...
ONLY a woman's letter, brown with age, Yet breathing deathless love, too strong and deep E'er to be told, save ...
I love the lyric muse!For when mankind ran wild in grooves Came holy Orpheus with his songsAnd turned men's hearts ...
CAN you hear the sparrow in the lane Singing above the graves? she said.He knows my gladness, he knows ...
THAT was the thrush's last good-night, I thought, And heard the soft descent of summer rain In the droop'd garden ...
UP with the sun, the breeze arose, Across the talking corn she goes, And smooth she rustles far and wide ...
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