Ode II (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
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 ...
WHAT time the Norman ruled in SicilyAt that mild season when the vernal sea,O'erflitted by the zephyrs frolic wing,Dances and ...
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
A "PETITE COMEDIE" IN RHYME.LOVER.COQUETTE! coquette! now, is it fairTo weave for me your magic hair,Binding me thus, all unaware?Till, ...
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
THE maimed and broken warrior lay,By his last foeman brought to bay.No sounds of battlefield were there--The drum's deep bass, ...
WHEN ruthful time the South's memorial places--Her heroes' graves--had wreathed in grass and flowers;When Peace ethereal, crowned by all her ...
O LOVE, it is our wedding day!This morn,--how swift the seasons flee!--A virgin morn of cloudless May,You gave your loyal ...
I SAT within my tranquil room;The twilight shadows sank and roseWith slowly flickering motions, wavedGrotesquely through the dusk repose;There came ...
MORTALS there are who seem, all over, flame,Vitalized radiance, keen, intense, and high,Whose souls, like planets in it dominant sky,Burn ...
LAND of my father's love, my father's race,How long must I in weary exile sighTo meet thee, O my empress, ...
YES! it has come; the strange, o'ermastering hour,When buoyant hopes, and tender, tremulous fearsSway the full heart with a divided ...
ALONG the woods the whispering night-airs swoon,A single bird-note dies adown the trees,Clear, pallid, mournful, droops the summer moon,Dipped in ...
WHEN I am gone, what alien steps shall treadThis flowery garden-close?What alien hands shall pluck the violets sweet,Or gather the ...
WITH potent north winds rushing swiftly down,Blended in glorious chant, on yester-nightOld Winter came with locks and beard of white.The ...
I LIFT thee, thus, thou brown and rugged cone,Well poised and high,Between the flowering grasses and the sky;And, as sea-voices ...
HAVE you not noted how in early spring,From out the forests, past the murmuring brooks,O'er the hillsides, Nature, with airy ...
THERE is a golden season in our year,Between October's hale and lusty cheer,And the hoar frost of winter's empire drear;Which, ...
AT the calm matin hourI see her bend in prayer,As bends a virgin flowerKissed by the summer air;Oh, meek her ...
OVER her face, so tender and meek,The light of a prophecy lies,That has silvered the red of the rose on ...
THE children! ah, the children!Your innocent, joyous ones;Your daughters, with souls of sunshine;Your buoyant and laughing sons.Look long in their ...
I PRAY you, when the shadow of death draws nigh,To bear me out beneath the unmeasured heaven;I fain would hear ...
ROOTED in soil dull as a dead man's eye,Dank with decay, yon ghastly oak aspires,As if in mockery, to the ...
OH! sweet and soft,Returning oft,As oft they pass benignly,The warm June breezes come and go,Through golden rounds of murmurous flow,At ...
GAY is our crystal floor,Beneath the wave,With strange gems flaming o'erThe Genii gave;Sweet is the purple lightThat haunts out happy ...
WITHIN the deep-blue eyes of Heaven a hazeOf saddened passion dims their tender light,For that her fair queen-child, the Summer ...
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