John Hay Poems on Beauty Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...

I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...

I.Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her.This one may love her some day, some day ...

There was never a castle seen So fair as mine in Spain:It stands embowered in green, Crowning the gentle slopeOf a hill ...

I pray you, pardon me, Elsie, And smile that frown awayThat dims the light of your lovely face As a thunder-cloud the ...

Not done, but near its ending, Is the work that our eyes desired;Not yet fulfilled, but near the goal,Is the hope ...

Slow flapping to the setting sunBy twos and threes, in wavering rows. As twilight shadows dimly close,The crows fly over Washington.Under ...

What man is there so bold that he should say"Thus, and thus only, would I have the sea"?For whether lying ...

Let them say to my Lover That here I lie!The thing of His pleasure, His slave am I.Say that I seek Him Only ...

I wandered through a careless world Deceived when not deceiving,And never gave an idle heart The rapture of believing.The smiles, the sighs, ...

When violets were springing And sunshine filled the day,And happy birds were singing The praises of the May,A word came to me, ...

John Hay Poems on Beauty (11 Poems)