Guy Of The Temple (John Hay Poems)
Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...
John Hay Poems on God (21 Poems)
A Dream Of Bric-A-Brac (John Hay Poems)
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
Wanderlieder (John Hay Poems)
I stand at the break of dayIn the Champs Elysees.The tremulous shafts of dawningAs they shoot o'er the Tuileries early,Strike ...
The Monks Of Basle (John Hay Poems)
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
Golyer (John Hay Poems)
Ef the way a man lights out of this world Helps fix his heft for the other sp'ere,I reckon my old ...
Israel (John Hay Poems)
When by Jabbok the patriarch waited To learn on the morrow his doom,And his dubious spirit debated In darkness and silence and ...
The Enchanted Shirt (John Hay Poems)
The King was sick. His cheek was red,And his eye was clear and bright;He ate and drank with kingly zest,And ...
The Law Of Death (John Hay Poems)
The song of Kilvani: fairest sheIn all the land of Savatthi.She had one child, as sweet and gayAnd dear to ...
Too Late (John Hay Poems)
Had we but met in other days,Had we but loved in other ways,Another light and hope had shone On your life ...
Little Breeches (John Hay Poems)
I don't go much on religion, I never ain't had no show;But I've got a middlin' tight grip, sir, On the handful ...
The Advance Guard (John Hay Poems)
In the dream of the Northern poets, The brave who in battle dieFight on in shadowy phalanx In the field of the ...
The Prairie (John Hay Poems)
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 ...
Mount Tabor (John Hay Poems)
On Tabor's height a glory came,And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame,The awestruck, hushed disciples sawChrist and the prophets of ...
The Sphinx Of The Tuileries (John Hay Poems)
Out of the Latin Quarter I came to the lofty doorWhere the two marble Sphinxes guard The Pavilion de Flore.Two Cockneys stood ...
A Woman’s Love (John Hay Poems)
A sentinel angel sitting high in gloryHeard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:"Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"I ...
The Prayer Of The Romans (John Hay Poems)
Not done, but near its ending, Is the work that our eyes desired;Not yet fulfilled, but near the goal,Is the hope ...
Sinai And Calvary (John Hay Poems)
There are two mountains hallowed By majesty sublime,Which rear their crests unconquered Above the floods of Time.Uncounted generations Have gazed on them with ...
Lagrimas (John Hay Poems)
God send me tears!Loose the fierce band that binds my tired brain,Give me the melting heart of other years, And let ...
God’s Vengeance (John Hay Poems)
Saith the Lord, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay," saith the Lord;Ours be the anger divine, Lit by the flash of his ...
In A Graveyard (John Hay Poems)
In the dewy depths of the graveyard I lie in the tangled grass,And watch, in the sea of azure, The white cloud-islands ...
Sister Saint Luke (John Hay Poems)
She lived shut in by flowers and treesAnd shade of gentle bigotries.On this side lay the trackless sea,On that the ...