Charleston (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
CALMLY beside her tropic strand,An empress, brave and loyal,I see the watchful city stand,With aspect sternly royal;She knows her mortal ...
CALMLY beside her tropic strand,An empress, brave and loyal,I see the watchful city stand,With aspect sternly royal;She knows her mortal ...
I.Fairest of the Destinies,Disarray thy dazzling eyes:Keener far thy lightnings areThan the winged thou bearest,And the smile thou wearestWraps ...
The vintage time is gone, but not its glory;The grapes are garnered from their leafy gloom;Yet miles of vineyards, story ...
Belated swallow, whither flying?The day is dead, the light is dying, The night draws near:Where is thy nest, slow put together,Soft-lined ...
Much it behovethEach one of mortals,That he his soul's journeyIn himself ponder,How deep it may be.When Death cometh,The bonds he ...
LADY , thy lofty brow is fair,Beauty's sign and seal are there;And thy lip is like the roseClosing round the ...
SORROW, that watches while the body sleeps,Parted the curtains of the cruel dawnAnd glided noiselessly to her sad seatBeside my ...
THERE lived in the desert a holy manTo whom a goat-footed Faun one dayPaid a visit, and thus beganTo his ...
So sang I, all unwitting of the prize,Which thou meanwhile hadst won, and wearest now,The fairest garland that enwreathes thy ...
Beautiful maiden, So daintily fair,Thy rose-hued lips, Thy soft, flowing hair,Symmetric perfection, Sweet, winning face,The charms that thou wearest A palace might grace;And yet ...
The name thou wearest does thee grievous wrong. No mimic thou! That voice is thine alone! The poets sing but strains of ...
In summer time, when leaves grow greene,And blossoms bedecke the tree,King Edward wolde a hunting ryde,Some pastime for to see.With ...
Nicht darf ich dir zu gleichen mich vermessen.— GoetheI know not how to sing a song to-day—Thou in the spirit, ...
"NOW England lessens on my sight; The bastioned front of Wales, Discolored and indefinite, There like a cloud-wreath ...
Canst thou love me, lady? I've not learn'd to woo: Thou art on the ...
O, glad New Year, with what a wealth of hope Thou comest to the world of toiling men,Bringing glad days ...
With that pleasant smile thou wearest,Thou art gazing on the fairest Wonders of the earth and sea:Do thou not, in ...
High headlands all jealously hide thee, O fairest of sea-girdled towns! Thine Ocean-spouse smileth beside thee, While each ...
O Heart of Three-in-the evening, You nestled the thorn-crowned head;He leaned on you in His sorrow, And rested on you ...
THERE lived in the desert a holy man To whom a goat-footed Faun one day Paid a visit, and thus ...
THERE lived in the desert a holy man To whom a goat-footed Faun one day Paid a visit, and thus ...
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