Widderin’s Race. Australian. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
LIST to this legend, which an antique poetHath left among the musty tomes of eld,Like a flushed rosebud pressed between ...
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 MAN of peace, I never dared to marry,Lover of tranquil hours, I dwelt apart;Outside the realm where noisy schemes ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
MY Mother-land! thou wert the first to flingThy virgin flag of freedom to the breeze,The first to front along thy ...
FIRST 'mid the lion Richard's host,Sir Aymer fought in Holy Land;And they loved him well for his honest heart,And they ...
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
BEYOND the sunset, and the amber seaTo the lone depths of Ether, cold and bare,Thy influence, soul of all tranquillity,Hallows ...
HARK, hark! down the century's long reaching slopeTo those transports of triumph, those raptures of hope,The voices of main and ...
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
To the memory of Henry TimrodThe same majestic pine is lifted highAgainst the twilight sky,The same low, melancholy music grievesAmid ...
O! HOP is a sailor used up in the war,With a single good leg to stand on;And a face as ...
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 ...
THEY slept on the field which their valor had won,But arose with the first early blush of the sun,For they ...
CROUCHED low in a sordid chamber,With a cupboard of empty shelves,Half starved, and, alas, unableTo comfort or help themselves,Two children ...
A.HOW bitterly you speak!B.I have good warrant.A.Well, for my part, I hold your creed is false.Uncharitable, monstrous! I have seenThe ...
THEY were Methodists twain, of the ancient school,Who always followed the wholesome ruleThat whenever the preacher in meeting saidAught that ...
THE sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard,The rifle hangs safe on the wall;No longer we quail at the hungryHot rush ...
O LOVE, it is our wedding day!This morn,--how swift the seasons flee!--A virgin morn of cloudless May,You gave your loyal ...
YOUR face, my boy, when six months old,We propped you laughing in a chair,And the sun-artist caught the goldWhich rippled ...
To Richard Henry Stoddard(In reply to his poem called "Wishing and Having.")"Perhaps it will all come right at last;It may ...
TWO hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe April day,The Northmen's mailed "Invincibles" steamed up fair Charleston Bay;They ...
OH, drearily, how drearily, the sombre eve comes down!And wearily, how wearily, the seaward breezes blow!But place your little hand ...
I HAVE settled at last, in a sombre nook,In the far-off heart of the Norland hills,There's a dark pine forest ...
YES! it has come; the strange, o'ermastering hour,When buoyant hopes, and tender, tremulous fearsSway the full heart with a divided ...
To J.A.D.HERE, at the sweetest hour of this sweet day,Here in the calmest woodland haunt I know,Benignant thoughts around my ...
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