The Mountain Of The Lovers (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I.LOVE scorns degrees! the low he lifteth high,The high he draweth down to that fair plainWhereon, in his divine equality,Two ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Desire (25 Poems)
W. Gilmore Simms (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE swift mysterious seasons rise and set;The omnipotent years pass o'er us, bright or dun;--Dawns blush, and mid-days burn, 'till ...
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 ...
Unveiled (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
The Snow-Messengers (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
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 ...
Stuart (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
Renewed (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WELCOME, rippling sunshine!Welcome, joyous air!Like a demon shadowFlies the gaunt despair!Heaven, through heights of happy calm,Its heart of hearts uncloses,To ...
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 ...
Charleston At The Close Of 1863 (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHAT! still does the mother of treason uprearHer crest 'gainst the furies that darken her sea,Unquelled by mistrust, and unblanched ...
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 ...
Caged (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YOU think he sings a gladsome song!Ah, well, he sings! but only seeHow oft on glossy neck and breastHis bright ...
Apart (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
COME not with empty words that say,"Your strength of manhood wastes awayIn long, ignoble, fruitless years!"I live apart from pain ...
Before The Mirror (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHERE in her chamber by the Southern sea,Her taper's light shone soft and silvery,Fair as a planet mirrored in the ...
“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 ...
A New Version Of Why The Robin’s Breast Is Red (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
KNOW you why the robin's breastGleameth of a dusky red,Like the lustre mid the starsOf the potent planet Mars?'Tis--a monkish ...
To Algernon Charles Swineburne (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
NOT since proud Marlowe poured his potent songThrough fadeless meadows to a marvellous main,Has England hearkened to so sweet a ...
A Summer Mood (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AH, me! for evermore, for evermoreThese human hearts of ours must yearn and sigh,While down the dells and up the ...
Song II (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HO! fetch me the winecup! fill up to the brim!For my heart has grown cold, and my vision is dim,And ...
“Too Low And Yet Too High.” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HE came in velvet and in gold;He wooed her with a careless grace;A confidence too rashly boldBreathed in his language ...
Sonnet Written On A Fly-Leaf Of “The Rubaiyat” Of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet Of Persia. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHO deems the soul to endless death is thrall,That no life breathes beyond that moment dire,When every sense seems lost ...
A Comparison (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I THINK, ofttimes, that lives of men may beLikened to wandering winds that come and go,Not knowing whence they rise, ...
In The Porch (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
IN this old porch, fast mouldering to decay,But wreathed in vines and girt by shadowy trees,All day I hear the ...
Magnolia Gardens (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YES, found at last,--the earthly paradise!Here by slow currents of the silvery streamIt smiles, a shining wonder, a fair dream,A ...
October (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
The passionate summer's dead! the sky's aglowWith roseate flushes of matured desire,The winds at eve are musical and low,As sweeping ...