The Woodland Grave (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WE roam, my love and I,'Mid the rich woodland grasses,Where, through dense clouds of greenery,The softened sunshine passes;But near a ...
WE roam, my love and I,'Mid the rich woodland grasses,Where, through dense clouds of greenery,The softened sunshine passes;But near a ...
TEACHERS of teachers! Yours the task,Noblest that noble minds can ask,High up Aonia's murmurous mount,To watch, to guard the sacred ...
AS I gazed on the prospect enchanted,On waves the sun-glory had kissed,There slowly swept down from the distance,The phantom-like bands ...
Could I reveal the secret joyThy presence always with it brings,The memories so strangely wakedOf long forgotten things,The love, the ...
I THINK earth's noblest, most pathetic sightIs some old poet, round whose laurel-crownThe long gray locks are streaming softly down;--Whose ...
(Founded Quebec, 1608)WISE Colonist who in this storied place,With wisdom prescient of thy pregnant deed,Cast forth the sparsate grains of ...
"THOU, bright Futurity! whose prospect beams, In dawning radiance on our day-light dreams; Whose lambent meteors and ethereal forms Gild ...
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
'Midst Tivoli's luxuriant glades,Bright-foaming falls, and olive shades,Where dwelt, in days departed long,The sons of battle and of song,No tree, ...
HAPPY the land, round which the ocean flows,Whose ebbing waves its fertile soil compose.The shepherd fearless leads his flocks to ...
As on a holiday, when a farmer Goes out to look at ...
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked,As often before, the April fields till star-lightSilkened over with viewless ...
When conquerors lift the bloody shield, Showing the fallen's ooze of life, And on a waste of blasted field Joy ...
NAY, Music, thou art young! Not long ago Thou hadst but rounded to thy perfect form, Thy virginal, sweet heart ...
His was the prescient voice, crying in the wilderness, proclaiming the coming of the Messiah, coming to baptize What a ...
An anniversary Of a moment (if many hours can be but a moment) When pain brought a common numbing A ...
For more than a billion years we've been nearly out of water; sincerely, a need repeatedly exposed in calamitous reports ...
WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, ...
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked, As often before, the April fields till star-light Silkened over ...
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