The Imprisoned Innocents (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
The tree of deepest root is foundLeast willing still to quit the ground;Twas therefore said, by ancient sages,That love of ...
The listening Dryads hushed the woods;The boughs were thick, and thin and fewThe golden ribbons fluttering through;Their sun-embroidered, leafy hoodsThe ...
Vile, scolding words do irritate,Good manners thereby will abateIf sow-bell's rung from morn to late.A new St. Ruffian now holds ...
I love thee not for sacred chastity.Who loves for that? nor for thy sprightly wit:I love thee not for thy ...
What blessed yet terrible rain everywhere,With crosses and signs now streaking the air,Earth with small streams by the thousand.Glittering globes ...
Maiden crowned with glossy blackness,Lithe as panther forest-roaming,Long-armed Naiad when she dancesOn a stream of ether floating,Bright, o bright Fedalma!Form ...
Part 1. St. Mark's hushed abbey heardThrough prayers a roar and din;A brawling voice did shout, "Knave shaveling, let me ...
No Thrasion harpe, but a steeld furious whippe, no Nightingales, but Mandrakes shreeking sound,Adastors snakes to make these Thrasors skippe: ...
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
I When you, that at this moment are to me Dearer than words on paper, shall ...
Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...
The Legend of Love-Sick Lake WHEN you wander alone through the forest And list to the murmuring song,If your heart ...
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
When thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave: So many joys I writ down for ...
Seek not the Spirit, if it hide, Inexorable to thy zeal: Baby, do not whine and chide; Art thou not ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
NOW when the number of my years Is all fulfilled, and I From sedentary life Shall rouse me up to ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
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