Songs Of The Imprisoned Naiad (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"WOE! woe is me! the centuries pass away,The mortal seasons run their ceaseless rounds,While here I wither for the sunbright ...
"WOE! woe is me! the centuries pass away,The mortal seasons run their ceaseless rounds,While here I wither for the sunbright ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
I LIFT these hands with iron fetters banded:Beneath the scornful sunlight and cold starsI rear my once imperial forehead brandedBy ...
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
HERE let me pause by the lone eagle's nest,And breathe the ...
THE Blue is marching south once more,With serried steel and stately tread;Their martial music pealed before,Their flag of stars flashed ...
ONCE, when the autumn fields were dim and wet,The trumpets rang; the tide of battle setToward gray Broceliande, by the ...
WHEN o'er yon forest solitudesThe sky of autumn evening broods--A heaven whose warp, but palely bright,Shot through with woofs of ...
FAIR as the dawn of the fairest day,Sad as the evening's tender gray,By the latest lustre of sunset kissed,That wavers ...
SWEETHEART, good-bye! Our varied dayIs closing into twilight gray,And up from bare, bleak wastes of seaThe north-wind rises mournfully;A solemn ...
HAVE you not noted how in early spring,From out the forests, past the murmuring brooks,O'er the hillsides, Nature, with airy ...
THE glowing tints of a tropic eve,Burn on her radiant cheek,And we know that her voice is rich and low,Though ...
WE have passed the noonday summit,We have left the noonday heat,And down the hillside slowlyDescend our weary feet.Yet the evening ...
IN springtime of our youth, life's purpling shade,Foliage and fruit, do hang so thickly round,We seem glad tenants of enchanted ...
A ROYAL rose! A rose how darkly red!A proud, voluptuous, full blown flower, that swaysHer sceptre o'er the wind-swept garden-ways,With ...
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