Guy Of The Temple (John Hay Poems)
Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...
John Hay Poems on Man (18 Poems)
A Dream Of Bric-A-Brac (John Hay Poems)
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
The Monks Of Basle (John Hay Poems)
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
The Pledge At Spunky Point (John Hay Poems)
A Tale of Earnest Effort and Human PerfidyIt's all very well for preachingBut preachin' and practice don't gee:I've give the ...
Golyer (John Hay Poems)
Ef the way a man lights out of this world Helps fix his heft for the other sp'ere,I reckon my old ...
Israel (John Hay Poems)
When by Jabbok the patriarch waited To learn on the morrow his doom,And his dubious spirit debated In darkness and silence and ...
The Enchanted Shirt (John Hay Poems)
The King was sick. His cheek was red,And his eye was clear and bright;He ate and drank with kingly zest,And ...
Distichs (John Hay Poems)
I.Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her.This one may love her some day, some day ...
Pike Country Ballads:Jim Bludso, Of The Prairie Belle (John Hay Poems)
Wall, no! I can't tell whar he lives, Becase he don't live, you see;Leastways, he's got out of the habit Of livin' ...
Miles Keogh’s Horse (John Hay Poems)
On the bluff of the Little Big-Horn,At the close of a woful day,Custer and his Three HundredIn death and silence ...
The Curse Of Hungary (John Hay Poems)
Saloman looked from his donjon bars,Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand,And he cursed with a curse his revolting ...
The Mystery Of Gilgal (John Hay Poems)
The darkest, strangest mysteryI ever read, or heern, or see,Is 'long of a drink at Taggart's Hall,-- Tom Taggart's of Gilgal.I've ...
Religion And Doctrine (John Hay Poems)
He stood before the Sanhedrim;The scowling rabbis gazed at him.He recked not of their praise or blame;There was no fear, ...
The Surrender Of Spain (John Hay Poems)
I.Land of unconquered Pelayo! land of the Cid Campeador!Sea-girdled mother of men! Spain, name of glory and power;Cradle of world-grasping ...
A Triumph Of Order (John Hay Poems)
A Squad of regular infantryIn the Commune's closing days,Had captured a crowd of rebelsBy the wall of Pere-la-Chaise.There were desperate ...
The Sphinx Of The Tuileries (John Hay Poems)
Out of the Latin Quarter I came to the lofty doorWhere the two marble Sphinxes guard The Pavilion de Flore.Two Cockneys stood ...
Liberty (John Hay Poems)
What man is there so bold that he should say"Thus, and thus only, would I have the sea"?For whether lying ...
The Azra (John Hay Poems)
Daily walked the fair and lovelySultan's daughter in the twilight,--In the twilight by the fountain,Where the sparkling waters plash.Daily stood ...