To A Bee (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SMALL epicurean, would to heaven that ICould borrow your lithe body and swift wingTo speed, a lightning atom through the ...
SMALL epicurean, would to heaven that ICould borrow your lithe body and swift wingTo speed, a lightning atom through the ...
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable,And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy.I look up our southern neighbor. But ...
Again rejoicing nature seesHer robe assume its vernal hues,Her leafy looks wave in the breeze,All freshly steep'd in morning dews.And ...
The winter sat lang on the spring o' the year, Our seedtime was late, and our mailing was dear; My mither tint ...
I PRAY thee lay me not to restAmong these mouldering bones;Too heavily the earth is prestBy all these crowded stones.Life ...
(From the Paiute Indian Dialect, Done into English by Mary Austin)THIS is the song of the Friend,Made by the Medicine ...
The river hemmed with leaning treesWound through its meadows green;A low, blue line of mountains showedThe open pines between.One sharp, ...
WHO PRESENTED ME WITH A SILVER LOVING CUPON THE TWENTY-NINTH OF AUGUST, M DCCC LXXXIX"WHO gave this cup?" The secret ...
When first thine eyes unveil, give thy soul leaveTo do the like: our bodies but forerunThe spirit's duty. True hearts spread ...
The spring now come at lastTo Trees, Fields, to Flowres,And meadowes makes to tasteHis pride, while sad showresWhich from mine ...
Arise, O Gardener! And usher in the glory of a new spring.Create conditions for 'bulbuls' (a type of bird) toHover ...
I wonder who the children are That troop to school these daysAlong the old McDuffie path That winds through woody waysAnd leads ...
Near the City of Petersburg,As seen by the passers-by,In the neighborhood of Ettricks,Stands the V. N. and C. I.A building ...
Though Jericho pleasantly stood,And looked like a promising soil;The harvest produced little food,To answer the husbandman's toil.The water some property ...
WITH breath of thyme and bees that hum, Across the years you seem to come,- Across the years with nymph-like ...
I scarce believe my love to be so pure As I had thought it was, Because it doth endureVicissitude, and season, as ...
SPRING house-cleaning in Arcadie, When every bough is bare;'If it bring Wendy back to me, 'I wish,' quoth Pan, ' 'twere here.'For ...
Under the brown leaves meekly abiding, The gem of the spring-flowers nestles away, In copse near th' wood, where covertly hiding, It catches ...
I WOULD not lose a single silvery rayOf those white locks which like a milky wayStreak the dusk midnight of ...
I hail and bless thy presence, month most dearIn the round cycle of the rolling year;Thy grave, sweet aspect, silent ...
A THOUSAND sweet ties bind her here, -O friend! thy fears are vain!The blessed angels will not breakSo soon this ...
Slow flapping to the setting sunBy twos and threes, in wavering rows. As twilight shadows dimly close,The crows fly over Washington.Under ...
In the hills' embraces holden, In a valley filled with glooms,Lies a cemetery olden, Strewn with countless mould'ring tombs.Ancient graves o'erhung with ...
I was walking by the road, I do notknow why, when the noonday was pastand bamboo branches rustled in thewind. The ...
VERY dark the autumn sky, Dark the clouds that hurried by;Very rough the autumn breeze Shouting rudely to the trees.Listening, frightened, pale, ...
I know not when the Lord will come,Or at what hour He may appear,Whether at midnight or at morn,Or at ...
Summah 's nice, wif sun a-shinin', Spring is good wif greens and grass, An' dey 's some t'ings nice 'bout wintah, Dough hit ...
ALL night above their rocky bedThey saw the stars march slow;The wild Sierra overhead,The desert's death below.The Indian from his ...
A SOFTENING of the misty heaven,A subtle murmur in the air;The electric flash through coverts oldOf many a shy wing, ...
Jacinth, Jacinth, where do you goWith your eyes like spring and your step like snow?Who wrought, my Jacinth, ...
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