The Imprisoned Innocents (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Christianity (38 Poems)
Charleston Retaken. Dec. 14, 1782 (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS some half-vanquished lion,Who long hath kept at bayA band of sturdy forestersBarring his blood-stained way--Sore-smitten, weak and wounded--Glares forth ...
The Island In The South (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE ship went down at noonday in a cam,When not a zephyr broke the crystal sea.We two escaped alone: we ...
Allan Herbert (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE I.[The hall of a country house in Westmoreland, surrounded with portraits of the M. . . . family. Allan ...
From The Conspirator (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
My Mother-Land (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MY Mother-land! thou wert the first to flingThy virgin flag of freedom to the breeze,The first to front along thy ...
The Substitute (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
The Black Destrier. A Ballad Of The Third Crusade (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FIRST 'mid the lion Richard's host,Sir Aymer fought in Holy Land;And they loved him well for his honest heart,And they ...
Little Nellie In The Prison (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
By The Grave Of Henry Timrod (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN last we parted--thy frail hand in mine--Above us smiled September's passionless sky,And touched by fragrant airs, the hillside pineThrilled ...
Valerie’s Confession. To A Friend. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY declare that I'm gracefully pretty,The very best waltzer that whirls;They say I am sparkling and witty,The pearl, the queen ...
A Character (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A.HE is a man whose complex characterFew can decipher rightly; but for meI have found the key at last!B.What make ...
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 Three Copecks (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
CROUCHED low in a sordid chamber,With a cupboard of empty shelves,Half starved, and, alas, unableTo comfort or help themselves,Two children ...
Hiram H. Benner (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN the war-drums beat and the trumpets blare,When banners flaunt in the stormy air,When at thought of the deeds that ...
The Silken Shoe (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE firelight danced and waveredIn elvish, twinkling gleeOn the leaves and crimson berriesOf the great green Christmas Tree;And the children ...
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 ...
Will (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YOUR face, my boy, when six months old,We propped you laughing in a chair,And the sun-artist caught the goldWhich rippled ...
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 ...
The Dead Child And The Mocking-Bird (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
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 ...
When All Has Been Said And Done. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
To Richard Henry Stoddard(In reply to his poem called "Wishing and Having.")"Perhaps it will all come right at last;It may ...
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 Bayard Taylor Beyond Us (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A VISION OF CHRISTMAS EVE, 1878.AS here within I watch the fervid coals,While the chill heavens without shine wanly white,I ...
Forecastings (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN I am gone, what alien steps shall treadThis flowery garden-close?What alien hands shall pluck the violets sweet,Or gather the ...
Consummatum Est (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I'VE done with all the world can give,Whate'er its kind or measure.(O Christ! what paltry lives we liveIf toil be ...
Severance (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AH! who call tell how strong the tieWhich subtly binds us, heart to heart,Till the dark master, Death, comes nigh,To ...
Here And There (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HERE the warm sunshine fillsLike wine of gods the deepening, cup-shaped dells,Embossed with marvellous flowers; the happy rillsRoam through the ...
A Christmas Lyric (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THO' the Earth with age seems whitened,And her tresses hoary and oldNo longer are flushed mad brightenedBy glintings of brown ...
“A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet.” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A LITTLE while (my life is almost set!)I fain would pause along the downward way,Musing an hour in this sad ...
Rachel (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE wan September moonbeams, struggling downThrough the gray clouds upon her desolate head,The coldness of their muffled radiance shedFaintly above ...