The Battle Of King’s Mountain (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
OFTTIMES an old man's yesterdays o'er his frail vision pass,Dim as the twilight tints that touch a dusk-enshrouded glass;But, ah! ...
OFTTIMES an old man's yesterdays o'er his frail vision pass,Dim as the twilight tints that touch a dusk-enshrouded glass;But, ah! ...
'Midst the men and things which willHaunt an old man's memory still,Drollest, quaintest of them all,With a boy's laugh I ...
Welcome! Oh, welcome! in thy course of fame—Through rolling clouds of smoke and lurid flame,Belched from a hundred murky piles—at ...
Flapping fierce her gory pinions, Whetting sharp her crimson beak,Vulture War her barbarous minions, Calls her ghastly prey to seek.Now her hideous ...
“Old man, upon the green hillside, With yellow flowers besprinkled o’er,How long in silence wilt thou bide At this low stone door?“I ...
But not all unprepared were found the Medes. With restless foot, Belesis through the night, Still to and fro had ...
To-morrow and to-morrow, (O the slashing of the foam along the furrow!)We'll loosen from the jetty when ...
At the Midsummer, when the hay was down,Said I mournful - Though my life be in its prime,Bare lie my ...
Dark night upon the leaguered town, And on the hidden foe;Anxious the distant nation waits For news of ...
Not his the lifelong loud renown, The head with weight of years grown gray: But his a gallant ...
I Leaguered in fire The wild black promontories of the coast extend Their savage silhouettes; The sun in universal carnage ...
STRANGE are the ways of men, And strange the ways of God! We tread the mazy paths That all our ...
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