The Substitute (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
NAUHAUGHT, the Indian deacon, who of oldDwelt, poor but blameless, where his narrowing CapeStretches its shrunk arm out to all ...
(Odysseus before the House of Paris.)OD. About this wicked house ten yearsThe strife 'twixt Troy and Greece has surgedSince rifling Paris, ...
She calmly brought his sabre bright,Tempered with death;And, girding him, her all, aright,She spoke with eyes of kindling lightMore than ...
(To F. H.)In pale green twilight lands Under the seaHer rainbow palace stands, Irised and opaline; Agate and almondine,Corals and pearly shellsSwept from ...
Wife of Rev. WILLIAM H. C. ROBERTSON, died at Magnolia, East Florida,January 13th, aged 34.Our buds have faded,--winter's frigid breath Sigh'd ...
LONG they pine in weary woe — the nobles of our land —Long they wander to and fro, proscribed, alas! ...
Dark night along England's coast.Up from their ships come the swarming foemen;Harold Sigurd heads their host;Swordsmen and spearmen shouting to ...
OF all the woodland flowers of earlier spring,These golden jasmines, each an air-hung bower.Meet for the Queen of Fairies' tiring ...
BEHOLD! how weirdly, wonderfully grandThe shades and colors of yon sunset sky!Rare isles of light in crimson oceans lie,Whose airy ...
THE holy bell, untouched by human hands, Clanged suddenly, and tolled with solemn knell.Between the massive, blazoned temple-doors,Thrown wide, to ...
Two angels, as I grew up glad and gay From golden infancy,Were with me, walking all along the way On ...
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
Over the camp-firesDrank I with heroes,Under the Donau bank,Warm in the snow trench:Sagamen heard I there,Men of the Longbeards,Cunning and ...
But a scant 2000 folk, no more, Sitting solemn-faced within the pews,While the parsons preach and outward pour, In divers ...
IT was heavy hap for that hero youngon his lord beloved to look and find himlying on earth with life ...
BEAUTIFUL Spirit! that didst guard of eldThe song-inspiring fount of Castalie-Thou, unto whom supremacy is givenAnd sway o'er realms of ...
'TIS of the Father Hilary. He strove, but could not pray; so took ...
BEAUTIFUL our passing year;He is not "old," he is not grey;Lay for him a flow'ry bierSummer sheds her warmest tear,As ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
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