The Condemned (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
WHO PRESENTED ME WITH A SILVER LOVING CUPON THE TWENTY-NINTH OF AUGUST, M DCCC LXXXIX"WHO gave this cup?" The secret ...
IFirst I asked the honeybee,Busy in the balmy bowers;Saying, "Sweetheart, tell it me:Have you seen her, honeybee?She is cousin to ...
O Liberty! thou goddess, heavenly bright,profuse of bliss and pregnant with delight,Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,And smiling Plenty leads ...
ONCE more, ye Pleiads of the Ionian deep,Welcome! in misty distance, 'midst the roarOf warring waves and winds, that fiercely ...
O God! Thou openest thy hand, and lo!Like clustered diamonds, regardlesslyScattered therefrom, the Pleiads gem the sky!Stars countless at a ...
.Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
YOUTH is the season of revolt; at twenty-fiveWe curse the reigning politicians,Wondering that any man aliveStands for such damnable conditions.Whatever ...
Crown her with stars, this angel of our planet, Cover her with morning, this thing of pure delight,Mantle her with ...
How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand,Until a sudden skyReveals the fact that One is raptForever from the Eye-Members of the ...
The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases And I lie down alone. The rainy Pleiads ...
IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star as bright Aldeboran ...
How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand, Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One is rapt Forever from the ...
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
In Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings are a lute"; None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, ...
I wish it were spring in the world. Let it be spring! Come, bubbling, surging tide of sap! Come, rush ...
When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker round me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the ...
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