Ode II (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
I HAD a vision at that mystic hour,When in the ebon garden of the Night,Blooms the Cimmerian flowerOf doubt and ...
A "PETITE COMEDIE" IN RHYME.LOVER.COQUETTE! coquette! now, is it fairTo weave for me your magic hair,Binding me thus, all unaware?Till, ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
I REMEMBER it well; 'twas a morn dull and gray,And the legion lay idle and listless that day,A thin drizzle ...
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
WHAT a pure and chastened splendor,What a grace of joyance tender,Like to starlight or to moonlight,Melting into fairy Junelight,Sleeps my ...
THE early springtime faintly flushed the earth,And in the woods, and by their favorite streamThe fair, wild roses blossomed modestly,Above ...
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 ...
THE Spring, so fair in her voting incompleteness,Of late the very type of tender sweetness;Now, through frail leaves and misty ...
O LOVE, it is our wedding day!This morn,--how swift the seasons flee!--A virgin morn of cloudless May,You gave your loyal ...
OH, drearily, how drearily, the sombre eve comes down!And wearily, how wearily, the seaward breezes blow!But place your little hand ...
COME, sweetheart, hear me! I have loved thee well,God knoweth. Through all these years my holiest thoughts,Like those pure doves ...
O FRESH, how fresh and fairThrough the crystal gulfs of air,The fairy South Wind floateth on her subtle wings of ...
I.A HAUNTING face! with strange, ethereal eyes,Deep as unfathomed gulfs of tranquil skiesWhen o'er their brightness a vague mist is ...
HERE the warm sunshine fillsLike wine of gods the deepening, cup-shaped dells,Embossed with marvellous flowers; the happy rillsRoam through the ...
The laughing Hours before her feet,Are scattering spring-time roses,And the voices in her soul are sweetAs music's mellowed closes;All hopes ...
HO! fetch me the winecup! fill up to the brim!For my heart has grown cold, and my vision is dim,And ...
AH! you tricksy little elf,How you idolize yourself!And believe the world was madeLike a gay-hued masquerade,Just for you to sport ...
THE bliss for which our spirits pine,That bliss we feel shall yet be given,Somehow, in some far realm divine,Some marvellous ...
I'D have you use a wise philosophy,In this, as in all matters, whereuponJudgment may freely act; truth ever liesBetween extremes; ...
GAY is our crystal floor,Beneath the wave,With strange gems flaming o'erThe Genii gave;Sweet is the purple lightThat haunts out happy ...
WE have passed the noonday summit,We have left the noonday heat,And down the hillside slowlyDescend our weary feet.Yet the evening ...
GURGLE, gurgle, gurgle,Over ledge and stone;How I'm going, flowing,Westward, all alone;All alone, but happy,Happy and hale am I,Clasped by the ...
DROOPING in the sunlit streams,We are wrapped all day in dreams;Morn and noon and evening lightRobed for us in garbs ...
HAST thou beheld a landscape dull and bare,On which, at times, a flying gleam was shedFrom some shy sunbeam shifting ...
SHALL I not falter on melodious wing,In that my notes are weak and may not riseTo those world-wide entrancing harmonies,Which ...
BETWEEN the sunken sun and the new moon,I stood in fields through which a rivulet ranWith scarce perceptible motion, not ...
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