John Hay Poems on Smiling Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...

A hundred times the bells of Brown Have rung to sleep the idle summers,And still to-day clangs clamoring down A greeting to ...

I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...

The song of Kilvani: fairest sheIn all the land of Savatthi.She had one child, as sweet and gayAnd dear to ...

In the dream of the Northern poets, The brave who in battle dieFight on in shadowy phalanx In the field of the ...

Under the high unclouded sunThat makes the ship and shadow one, I sail away as from the fortBooms sullenly the noonday ...

As I lay at your feet that afternoon,Little we spoke,--you sat and mused,Humming a sweet old-fashioned tune,And I worshipped you, ...

What man is there so bold that he should say"Thus, and thus only, would I have the sea"?For whether lying ...

I wandered through a careless world Deceived when not deceiving,And never gave an idle heart The rapture of believing.The smiles, the sighs, ...

The winter wind is raving fierce and shrill And chides with angry moan the frosty skies, The white stars gaze with sleepless ...

The beauty of the northern dawns, Their pure, pale light is thine;Yet all the dreams of tropic nights Within thy blue eyes ...

John Hay Poems on Smiling (11 Poems)