A Vision of Poesy – Part 01 (Henry Timrod Poems)
IIn a far country, and a distant age,Ere sprites and fays had bade farewell to earth,A boy was born of ...
Henry Timrod Poems on Soul (14 Poems)
Two Portraits (Henry Timrod Poems)
You say, as one who shapes a life,That you will never be a wife,And, laughing lightly, ask my aidTo paint ...
Katie (Henry Timrod Poems)
It may be through some foreign grace,And unfamiliar charm of face;It may be that across the foamWhich bore her from ...
A Prize Poem (Henry Timrod Poems)
A fairy ringDrawn in the crimson of a battle-plain —From whose weird circle every loathsome thing And sight and sound of ...
Madeline (Henry Timrod Poems)
O lady! if, until this hour,I've gazed in those bewildering eyes,Yet never owned their touching power,But when thou couldst not ...
Carolina (Henry Timrod Poems)
IThe despot treads thy sacred sands,Thy pines give shelter to his bands,Thy sons stand by with idle hands, Carolina!He breathes at ...
The Problem (Henry Timrod Poems)
Not to win thy favor, maiden, not to steal away thy heart,Have I ever sought thy presence, ever stooped to ...
The Summer Bower (Henry Timrod Poems)
It is a place whither I've often goneFor peace, and found it, secret, hushed, and cool,A beautiful recess in neighboring ...
Youth And Manhood (Henry Timrod Poems)
Another year! a short one, if it flowLike that just past,And I shall stand — if years can make me ...
Dramatic Fragment (Henry Timrod Poems)
Let the boy have his will! I tell thee, brother,We treat these little ones too much like flowers,Training them, in ...
Retirement (Henry Timrod Poems)
My gentle friend! I hold no creed so falseAs that which dares to teach that we are bornFor battle only, ...
The Lily Confidante (Henry Timrod Poems)
Lily! lady of the garden!Let me press my lip to thine!Love must tell its story, Lily!Listen thou to mine.Two I ...
Too Long, O Spirit Of Storm (Henry Timrod Poems)
Too long, O Spirit of Storm,Thy lightning sleeps in its sheath!I am sick to the soul of yon pallid sky,And ...
Sonnet V “Some Truths There Be Are Better Left Unsaid” (Henry Timrod Poems)
Some truths there be are better left unsaid;Much is there that we may not speak unblamed.On words, as wings, how ...