The Visit Of Mahmoud Ben Suleim To Paradise (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
A "PETITE COMEDIE" IN RHYME.LOVER.COQUETTE! coquette! now, is it fairTo weave for me your magic hair,Binding me thus, all unaware?Till, ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
I WALKED the ancient graveyard's ample round,Yet found therein not one illustrious nameWedded by Death to Fame.The sea-winds moaned by ...
WHAT a pure and chastened splendor,What a grace of joyance tender,Like to starlight or to moonlight,Melting into fairy Junelight,Sleeps my ...
ALONE with nature, where her passionate moodDeepens and deepens, till from shadowy wood,And sombre shore the blended voices soundOf five ...
CROUCHED low in a sordid chamber,With a cupboard of empty shelves,Half starved, and, alas, unableTo comfort or help themselves,Two children ...
THE sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard,The rifle hangs safe on the wall;No longer we quail at the hungryHot rush ...
THOU hast thy mother's eyes, my child--Her deep dark eyes: the undefiledSweetness which breathes around her mouth,A perfect rosebud of ...
ONCE in a land of balm and flowers,Of rich fruit-laden trees,Where the wild wreaths from jasmine bowersTrail o'er Floridian seas;We ...
To Richard Henry Stoddard(In reply to his poem called "Wishing and Having.")"Perhaps it will all come right at last;It may ...
I AM sitting alone and weary,By the hearth of my darkened room,And the low wind's miserere,Makes sadder the midnight gloom."There's ...
JAMIE.O MOTHER, what country is that I seeFar over the stream and the boulders gray,Where the wind-song pipes, and the ...
HERE let me pause by the lone eagle's nest,And breathe the ...
OH, Blanche is a city lady,Bedecked in her silks and lace:She walks with the mien of a stately queen,And a ...
COME, sweetheart, hear me! I have loved thee well,God knoweth. Through all these years my holiest thoughts,Like those pure doves ...
FOR sixty days and upwards,A storm of shell and shotRained round us in a flaming shower,But still we faltered not."If ...
HER step is soft as a fay's footfall,And her eyes are wonderful founts of blue;But I've seen that small foot ...
O SPIRIT! at whose wafts of chilling breathAutumn unbinds her zone, to rest in death;Touched by whose blight the light ...
I WOULD not lose a single silvery rayOf those white locks which like a milky wayStreak the dusk midnight of ...
THO' the Earth with age seems whitened,And her tresses hoary and oldNo longer are flushed mad brightenedBy glintings of brown ...
The laughing Hours before her feet,Are scattering spring-time roses,And the voices in her soul are sweetAs music's mellowed closes;All hopes ...
YEA! since the need is bitter,Take down those sacred bells,Whose music speaks of hallowed joys,And passionate farewells!But ere ye fall ...
FAIR as the dawn of the fairest day,Sad as the evening's tender gray,By the latest lustre of sunset kissed,That wavers ...
MAJESTIC dreams of heavenly calms,Bright visions of unfading palms,Wherewith the brows of saints are crowned,--Awhile my soul resigns them all,Content ...
How like a mighty picture, tint by tint,This marvellous world is opening to thy view!Wonders of earth and heaven; shapes ...
'Tis the part of a coward to broodO'er the past that is withered and dead:What though the heart's roses are ...
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