The Red Lily (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I CALL her the Red Lily. Lo! she standsFrom all her milder sister flowers apart;A conscious grace in those fair-folded ...
I CALL her the Red Lily. Lo! she standsFrom all her milder sister flowers apart;A conscious grace in those fair-folded ...
I would unto my fair restoreA simple thing:The flushing cheek she had before!Out-velvetingNo more, no more,On our sad shore,The carmine ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
Seven days accomplished,--unto Pharaoh's court The sons of Amram went; by Voice Divine Commanded; and, in presence of the king, ...
NOW Winter pours his terrors o'er the plain,And icy barriers close the wild domain,From the fierce North the sweeping blast ...
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
BRISTOL, thine heart hath throbb'd to glory.-Slaves,E'en Christian slaves, have shook their chains, and gaz'dWith wonder and amazement on thee. ...
For, day and night, by restless demons stirred,-- Like many fires in one combustion joined,-- King, sorcerers, priests, rulers, and ...
ON READING ONE UPON THE SAME SUBJECT BY PROFESSORRICHARDSON OF GLASGOW. WHAT voice awakes the soul-afflicting themeThat oft with ...
My Son! attend th'Instructions that I give,And let them ever in thy Memory live;So shall thy Life with Length of ...
STERN tyrant! blot on nature's brow! Accurst Revenge! of darkness bred;Engender'd on the dismal bough, Whence issu'd all ...
YOU ask my counsel how you ought to live;Unfit am I the needful rules to giveFor female conduct, which requires ...
AH! wherefore, cruel Cupid, didst thou bind, With such a painful wreath, my bleeding brows? Why give me ...
"I DO affirm that thou hast saved the race As much as thou hast ever made it lose: Men of ...
She who gives all, and yet withholds her heart, Gives nothing worthy for a man to take-- Gives as the ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
LONE on the bleaky hills the straying flocks Shun the fierce storms among the sheltering rocks; Down from the rivulets, ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Aug. 12. 1653. Jehovah to my words give ear My meditation waigh The voyce of my complaining hear My King ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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