The Mountain Of The Lovers (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I.LOVE scorns degrees! the low he lifteth high,The high he draweth down to that fair plainWhereon, in his divine equality,Two ...
I.LOVE scorns degrees! the low he lifteth high,The high he draweth down to that fair plainWhereon, in his divine equality,Two ...
THE swift mysterious seasons rise and set;The omnipotent years pass o'er us, bright or dun;--Dawns blush, and mid-days burn, 'till ...
O! THE rolling, rushing fire!O! the fire!How it rages, wilder, higher,Like a hot heart's fierce desire,Thrilled with passion that appalls ...
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
To the memory of Henry TimrodThe same majestic pine is lifted highAgainst the twilight sky,The same low, melancholy music grievesAmid ...
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
WELCOME, rippling sunshine!Welcome, joyous air!Like a demon shadowFlies the gaunt despair!Heaven, through heights of happy calm,Its heart of hearts uncloses,To ...
WHEN ruthful time the South's memorial places--Her heroes' graves--had wreathed in grass and flowers;When Peace ethereal, crowned by all her ...
WHAT! still does the mother of treason uprearHer crest 'gainst the furies that darken her sea,Unquelled by mistrust, and unblanched ...
THOUGH dowered with instincts keen and high,With burning thoughts that wooed the light,The scornful world hath passed him by,And left ...
YOU think he sings a gladsome song!Ah, well, he sings! but only seeHow oft on glossy neck and breastHis bright ...
COME not with empty words that say,"Your strength of manhood wastes awayIn long, ignoble, fruitless years!"I live apart from pain ...
WHERE in her chamber by the Southern sea,Her taper's light shone soft and silvery,Fair as a planet mirrored in the ...
A LITTLE while (my life is almost set!)I fain would pause along the downward way,Musing an hour in this sad ...
KNOW you why the robin's breastGleameth of a dusky red,Like the lustre mid the starsOf the potent planet Mars?'Tis--a monkish ...
NOT since proud Marlowe poured his potent songThrough fadeless meadows to a marvellous main,Has England hearkened to so sweet a ...
AH, me! for evermore, for evermoreThese human hearts of ours must yearn and sigh,While down the dells and up the ...
HO! fetch me the winecup! fill up to the brim!For my heart has grown cold, and my vision is dim,And ...
HE came in velvet and in gold;He wooed her with a careless grace;A confidence too rashly boldBreathed in his language ...
WHO deems the soul to endless death is thrall,That no life breathes beyond that moment dire,When every sense seems lost ...
I THINK, ofttimes, that lives of men may beLikened to wandering winds that come and go,Not knowing whence they rise, ...
IN this old porch, fast mouldering to decay,But wreathed in vines and girt by shadowy trees,All day I hear the ...
YES, found at last,--the earthly paradise!Here by slow currents of the silvery streamIt smiles, a shining wonder, a fair dream,A ...
The passionate summer's dead! the sky's aglowWith roseate flushes of matured desire,The winds at eve are musical and low,As sweeping ...
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