Little Nellie In The Prison (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
Sally is the laundress, and every SaturdayShe sends our clean clothes up from the wash, and Nurse puts them away.Sometimes ...
Two children are lost in a wood,What can they do? what can they do?They have not a morsel of food,And ...
Some years ago, ere time and tasteHad turned our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
On the second Anniversary of our arrival inBarbados.1.TWO years have fled on downy wings away,Since we together hail'd this western ...
SOME years ago, ere time and tasteHad turn'd our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
NOT bed-time yet! The night-winds blow,The stars are out,--full well we knowThe nurse is on the stair,With hand of ice ...
An excellent peasant, Of character pleasant, Once lived in a hut with his wife. He was cheerful and docile, But such an old fossil You ...
Far away in the twilight timeOf every people, in every clime,Dragons and griffins and monsters dire,Born of water, and air, ...
O! were I one of the Olympian twelve,Their godships should pass this into law,--That when a man doth set himself ...
Let pious Damon take his seat,With mincing step and languid smile,And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;And ...
The season was the childhood of sweet June,Whose sunny hours from morning until noonWent creeping through the day with silent ...
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...
Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to ...
Far back in the days when the blacks used to ramble In long single file 'neath the evergreen tree,The wool-teams in ...
Lord John and John Lord were both born on a day, But their fortunes were different quite; Lord John was decked out ...
walkingin the eveningalong the banksof the creek, as the sky is lighted by the glowfrom the hothouses, farther on the ...
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
Most worthy of praiseWere the virtuous waysOf Little Red Riding Hood's Ma,And no one was everMore cautious and cleverThan Little ...
The yellow poplar-leaves came down And like a carpet lay,No waftings were in the sunny air To flutter them away;And he stepped ...
MOST worthy of praise were the virtuous waysOf Little Red Riding Hood's ma,And no one was ever more cautious and ...
Go up and watch the new-born rill Just trickling from its mossy bed, Streaking the heath-clad hill With a bright emerald thread.Canst thou ...
When crowding folks, with strange ill faces,Were making legs, and begging places,And some with patents, some with merit,Tired out my ...
Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,How the men on fields of battle play so ...
GLORY to Thee, Father of all the Immortal,Ever belongs:We bring Thee from our watch by the grave's portalNothing but songs.Though ...
April deliciousYoung, sunny maiden,Arch, gusty, capricious,With fresh flowers laden,After dead winter longThrill us with sweet bird-song,After dry March's drought,Blow from ...
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never restWhile ...
By our first strange and fatal interview,By all desires which thereof did ensue,By our long starving hopes, by that remorseWhich ...
Ditherum dump lived i'th' haase behund th' pump, An he grummel'd throo mornin to neet,On his rig he'd a varry respectable ...
Come, Disappointment, come!Not in thy terrors clad:Come, in thy meekest, saddest guise;Thy chastening rod but terrifiesThe restless and the bad.But ...
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