Antonio Melidori (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE I.[A place not far from the summit of Mount Psiloriti, in the Isle of Candia. Philota discovered with a ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Belief & Faith (25 Poems)
Ode (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Delivered on the first anniversary of the Carolina Art Association, Feb. 10, 1856.THERE are two worlds wherein our souls may ...
The Return Of Peace (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I HAD a vision at that mystic hour,When in the ebon garden of the Night,Blooms the Cimmerian flowerOf doubt and ...
Frida And Her Poet (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
Under Sentence (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PLACE--Scotland. TIME--Thirteenth Century.OFF! off! no treacherous priest for me!What's Heaven? what's Hell? Eternity!It hath no meaning to mine ear.Unless--Stay, father! ...
Under The Pine (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
To the memory of Henry TimrodThe same majestic pine is lifted highAgainst the twilight sky,The same low, melancholy music grievesAmid ...
The Stricken South To The North (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN ruthful time the South's memorial places--Her heroes' graves--had wreathed in grass and flowers;When Peace ethereal, crowned by all her ...
A Thousand Years From Now (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I SAT within my tranquil room;The twilight shadows sank and roseWith slowly flickering motions, wavedGrotesquely through the dusk repose;There came ...
On The Death Of Canon Kingsley (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MORTALS there are who seem, all over, flame,Vitalized radiance, keen, intense, and high,Whose souls, like planets in it dominant sky,Burn ...
Battle Of Charleston Harbor, April 7, 1863 (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
TWO hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe April day,The Northmen's mailed "Invincibles" steamed up fair Charleston Bay;They ...
Not Dead (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
To J.A.D.HERE, at the sweetest hour of this sweet day,Here in the calmest woodland haunt I know,Benignant thoughts around my ...
On The Death Of President Garfield (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I SEE the Nation, as in antique ages,Crouched with rent robes, and ashes on her head:Her mournful eyes are deep ...
Little Lottie’s Grievance (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MAMA'S in heaven! and so, you seeMy sister Bet's mamma to me.Oh! yes, I love her!--that's to say,I love her ...
Christ On Earth (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HAD we but lived in those mysterious days,When, a veiled God 'mid unregenerate men,Christ calmly walked our devious mortal ways,Crowned ...
To my mother (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LIKE streamlets to a silent sea,These songs with varied motionFlow from bright fancy's uplands free,To Lethe's clouded ocean;They lapse in ...
Lines (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THOUGH dowered with instincts keen and high,With burning thoughts that wooed the light,The scornful world hath passed him by,And left ...
Vicksburg.-A Ballad (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FOR sixty days and upwards,A storm of shell and shotRained round us in a flaming shower,But still we faltered not."If ...
Morals Of Desperation (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE man who's wholly ruined, sir, fears nothing;How can he when all's lost to him already?There is a desperate gayety ...
On The Decline Of Faith (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS in some half-burned forest, one by one,We catch far echoes on the doleful breeze,Born of the downfall of its ...
Lyric of Action (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
'Tis the part of a coward to broodO'er the past that is withered and dead:What though the heart's roses are ...
The Village Beauty (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE glowing tints of a tropic eve,Burn on her radiant cheek,And we know that her voice is rich and low,Though ...
By The Grave (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THIS is the place--I pray thee, friend,Leave me alone with that dread grief,Whose raven wings o'erarch the grave,Closed on a ...
The Latter Peace (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WE have passed the noonday summit,We have left the noonday heat,And down the hillside slowlyDescend our weary feet.Yet the evening ...
Bayard Taylor (Upon Death) (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"OFT have I fronted Death, nor feared his might!To me immortal, this dim Finite seemsLike some waste low-land, crossed by ...
Fate, Or God? (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BEYOND the record of all eldest things,Beyond the rule and regions of past time,From out Antiquity's hoary-headed rime,Looms the dread ...