A Meeting Of The Birds (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
OF a thousand queer meetings, both great, sir, and smallThe bird-party I sing of seemed oddest of all!How they come ...
OF a thousand queer meetings, both great, sir, and smallThe bird-party I sing of seemed oddest of all!How they come ...
HAPPY Song-sparrow, that on woodland side Or by the meadow sits, and ceaseless sings His mellow roundelay in russet pride, ...
What is the grandest thoughtToward which the soul has wrought?Has it the epic form,And the power of a storm?Comes it ...
I VIEWED him well, the visible fat fool, And yet I took him in; for I contended, Friends are not sent in ...
Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home:'Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My ...
Methought I roved on shining walks,'Mid odorous groves and wreathed bowers.Where, trembling on their tender stalks,Fresh op'ning bloom'd the early ...
I"No, no! Leave me not in this dark hour,"She cried. And I,"Thou foolish dear, but call not dark this hour;What ...
I. Kempton, PennsylvaniaPerhaps the last of the lightlifting this evening from the field of wheatmeans something. Perhaps the viewincludes us, ...
Who in Bagdad knows not Jaffar, the Sun of the Universe?One day, many years ago (he was yet a youth), ...
The twelve Apostles sought the Master's face,And told Him all that they had said and done :But people thronged Him ...
MOON, fair moon, how long wilt thou appearSo pale, so mournful, in the heavens' height ?Have the dark storm-clouds filled ...
Change is the order of the universe.Worlds wax and wane; suns die and stars are born.Two atoms of cosmic dust ...
Oh, come, Beloved, before my beauty fades, Pity the sorrow of my loneliness.I am a Rosebush that the Cypress shades, No sunbeams ...
(The Song of NEHEMIAH'S WorkmenHow many miles to Babylon?'Three score and ten.Can I get there by candle-light?Yes, and back again.We ...
A BUSY town mid Britain's isle, Behold in fancy's eye ;With tower, and spire, and civic pile, Beneath a summer sky :And ...
I.An English village, a summer scene,A homely cottage, a garden green,An opening vista, a cloudless sky,A bee that hums as ...
DEEP silence everywhere-a hush profound!One might imagine nature to be dead.Sitting here mournfully, a pilgrim lone,O brilliant moon, I see ...
COUNT.I KNOW a flower of beauty rare,Ah, how I hold it dear!To seek it I would fain repair,Were I not ...
Glorious it is, though concealing its glory: and a guide, though under the veil of coquetry. Its discourse is bright ...
So that's what you call good news for me,Young Janet who loves me so?For your poor blind grandmother sitting hereWhile ...
Alas! alas! this wasted NightWith all its Jasmin-scented air,Its thousand stars, serenely bright!I lie alone, and long for you,Long for ...
Messrs. Editors,As you have inserted my Cradle Piece so handsomely, I follow it by a BIRTH-DAY INVITATION, written some months ...
A DreamNIGHT is silent, the moon shines, and thestars twinkle in the sky. The angel of dreamscarries me thro 1 ...
THERE is a woman like a seed,There is a man in embryo,Whose spirits, faces, sex indeedTheir very mothers do not ...
An average man was Private Flynn, Good stuff for soldiering, no doubt;Troublesome when the drink was in, A quiet lad when it ...
I am writing this song at the close Of a beautiful day of the springIn a dell where the daffodil grows By ...
We shan't see Willy any more, Mamie,He won't be coming any more:He came back once and again and again,But he ...
Come into the garden, Maud,For the black bat, Night, has flown,Come into the garden, Maud,I am here at the gate ...
THERE in his room, whene'er the moon looks in,And silvers now a shell, and now a fin,And o'er his chart ...
Sweet the memory is to meOf a land beyond the sea,Where the waves and mountains meet,Where amid her mulberry-treesSits Amalfi ...
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