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 ...
SCENE I.[A place not far from the summit of Mount Psiloriti, in the Isle of Candia. Philota discovered with a ...
I.LOVE scorns degrees! the low he lifteth high,The high he draweth down to that fair plainWhereon, in his divine equality,Two ...
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
OFTTIMES an old man's yesterdays o'er his frail vision pass,Dim as the twilight tints that touch a dusk-enshrouded glass;But, ah! ...
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
A MAN of peace, I never dared to marry,Lover of tranquil hours, I dwelt apart;Outside the realm where noisy schemes ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
WELL, Maussa! if you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true.Doh de berry taut ob dat bad time ...
I REMEMBER it well; 'twas a morn dull and gray,And the legion lay idle and listless that day,A thin drizzle ...
I LIFT these hands with iron fetters banded:Beneath the scornful sunlight and cold starsI rear my once imperial forehead brandedBy ...
A POET once, whose tuneful soul, perchance,Too fondly leaned toward sin, and sin's romance,On a long vanished eve, so calm ...
O! HOP is a sailor used up in the war,With a single good leg to stand on;And a face as ...
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
THEY slept on the field which their valor had won,But arose with the first early blush of the sun,For they ...
THE maimed and broken warrior lay,By his last foeman brought to bay.No sounds of battlefield were there--The drum's deep bass, ...
WHEN the war-drums beat and the trumpets blare,When banners flaunt in the stormy air,When at thought of the deeds that ...
I'D like, indeed I'd like to knowWhy sister Bell, who loved me so,And used to pet me day and night,And ...
JAMIE.O MOTHER, what country is that I seeFar over the stream and the boulders gray,Where the wind-song pipes, and the ...
I HAVE settled at last, in a sombre nook,In the far-off heart of the Norland hills,There's a dark pine forest ...
I SEE the Nation, as in antique ages,Crouched with rent robes, and ashes on her head:Her mournful eyes are deep ...
ONCE, when the autumn fields were dim and wet,The trumpets rang; the tide of battle setToward gray Broceliande, by the ...
A widower muses over the likeness of his dead wife.THE face, the beautiful face,In its living flush and glow,The perfect ...
YEA! since the need is bitter,Take down those sacred bells,Whose music speaks of hallowed joys,And passionate farewells!But ere ye fall ...
NOT since proud Marlowe poured his potent songThrough fadeless meadows to a marvellous main,Has England hearkened to so sweet a ...
WE watched our baby day by day,With earnest expectation,To hear his infant lips uncloseIn vague articulation.But weeks, nay weary months, ...
SEE! See!How the shadows steal along,Blending in a golden throng,Softly, lovingly;From each mossed and quaint tree-column,Stretched toward the dimpling river,How ...
AMBUSHED in yonder cloud of white,Far-glittering from its azure height,He shrouds his swiftness and his might!But oft across the echoing ...
THE brave old poets sing of nobler themesThan those weak griefs which harass craven souls;The torrent of their lusty music ...
BETWEEN the sunken sun and the new moon,I stood in fields through which a rivulet ranWith scarce perceptible motion, not ...
BETWEEN the sunken sun and the new moon,I stood in fields through which a rivulet ranWith scarce perceptible motion, not ...
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