John Hay Poems on Fire 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 stand at the break of dayIn the Champs Elysees.The tremulous shafts of dawningAs they shoot o'er the Tuileries early,Strike ...

In the dream of the Northern poets, The brave who in battle dieFight on in shadowy phalanx In the field of the ...

Wall, no! I can't tell whar he lives, Becase he don't live, you see;Leastways, he's got out of the habit Of livin' ...

My dear wife sits beside the fire With folded hands and dreaming eyes,Watching the restless flames aspire, And wrapped in thralling memories.I ...

The skies are blue above my head, The prairie green below,And flickering o'er the tufted grass The shifting shadows go,Vague-sailing, where the ...

Out of the Latin Quarter I came to the lofty doorWhere the two marble Sphinxes guard The Pavilion de Flore.Two Cockneys stood ...

A sentinel angel sitting high in gloryHeard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:"Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"I ...

To Peter by night the faithfullest came And said, "We appeal to thee!The life of the Church is in thy life; We ...

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 ...

The Countess Jutta passed over the RhineIn a light canoe by the moon's pale shine.The handmaid rows and the Countess ...

John Hay Poems on Fire (12 Poems)