Fire Pictures (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
O! THE rolling, rushing fire!O! the fire!How it rages, wilder, higher,Like a hot heart's fierce desire,Thrilled with passion that appalls ...
O! THE rolling, rushing fire!O! the fire!How it rages, wilder, higher,Like a hot heart's fierce desire,Thrilled with passion that appalls ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
WHAT a pure and chastened splendor,What a grace of joyance tender,Like to starlight or to moonlight,Melting into fairy Junelight,Sleeps my ...
WHAT time o'er Persia ruled that upright KhanKhosru the Good, in Shiraz lived a man,A beggar-carle, to whose rough hands ...
Here in these mellow grasses, the whole morn,I love to rest; yonder, the ripening cornRustles its greenery; and his blithesome ...
COME, sweetheart, hear me! I have loved thee well,God knoweth. Through all these years my holiest thoughts,Like those pure doves ...
WHEN the land' s martyr, mid her tears,Outbreathed his latest breath,The discord of long, festering years,Lay also dumb in death:Our ...
STURDY little form, of trueSaxon pattern, through and through;Face as purely Saxon, too,With a smile demure and sly,Dimpled cheek and ...
THE bliss for which our spirits pine,That bliss we feel shall yet be given,Somehow, in some far realm divine,Some marvellous ...
ALL day the blast, with furious ramp and roar,Sweeps the gaunt hill-tops, piles the vapors high,Thro' infinite distance, up the ...
THEN whence, O Death! thy dreariness? We knowThat every flower the breeze's flattering breathWooes to a blush, and love-like murmuring ...
BEHOLD! how weirdly, wonderfully grandThe shades and colors of yon sunset sky!Rare isles of light in crimson oceans lie,Whose airy ...
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