A Winter Hymn (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
O WEARY winds! O winds that wail!O'er desert fields and ice-locked rills!O heavens that brood so cold and paleAbove the ...
O WEARY winds! O winds that wail!O'er desert fields and ice-locked rills!O heavens that brood so cold and paleAbove the ...
AN idle poet, dreaming in the sun,One given to much unhallowed vagrancyOf thought and step; who, when he comes to ...
HO! fetch me the winecup! fill up to the brim!For my heart has grown cold, and my vision is dim,And ...
AH, mother! canst thou feel her? . . . spring has come!Birds sing, brooks murmur, woods no more are dumb;And ...
WHEN Heaven was stormy, Earth was cold,And sunlight shunned the wold and wave,--Thought burrowed in the churchyard mould,And fed on ...
A GOLDEN pallor of voluptuous lightFilled the warm southern night:The moon, clear orbed, above the sylvan sceneMoved like a stately ...
THOUGH in the wine-press of thy wrath divine,My crushed hopes droop, like crude and worthless must,That love and mercy, Father! ...
AH! you tricksy little elf,How you idolize yourself!And believe the world was madeLike a gay-hued masquerade,Just for you to sport ...
FROM day to day the dreary heavenOutpoured its hopeless heart in rain;The conscious pines, half shuddering, heardThe secret of the ...
SHE'S loveliest of the festal throngIn delicate form and Grecian face;A beautiful, incarnate song;A marvel of harmonious grace;And yet I ...
THE World is older than our earliest dates;All thoughts, all feelings, all desires, all fates,Were known and tested, long ere ...
GAY is our crystal floor,Beneath the wave,With strange gems flaming o'erThe Genii gave;Sweet is the purple lightThat haunts out happy ...
THERE comes all hour when all life's joys and painsTo our raised vision seemBut as the flickering phantom that remainsOf ...
AH! what to him our trivial praise or blame,Who through long years hath raised half-mournful eyesYearning to mark some heaven-descended ...
A VOICE like the murmur of doves,Soft lightning from eyes of blue;On her cheek a flush like love'sFirst delicate, rosebud ...
DROOPING in the sunlit streams,We are wrapped all day in dreams;Morn and noon and evening lightRobed for us in garbs ...
COUCHED in cool shadow, girt by billowy swells,Of foliage, rippling into buds and flowers,Here I repose o'erfanned by breezy bowers,--Lulled ...
"OFT have I fronted Death, nor feared his might!To me immortal, this dim Finite seemsLike some waste low-land, crossed by ...
IN museful hours, when thoughts of grace divineRoll wave-like up the stormless strand of dreams;--When that which is grows vague ...
THE brave old poets sing of nobler themesThan those weak griefs which harass craven souls;The torrent of their lusty music ...
YES, found at last,--the earthly paradise!Here by slow currents of the silvery streamIt smiles, a shining wonder, a fair dream,A ...
In youth, when blood was warm and fancy high,I mocked at death. How many a quaint conceitI wove about his ...
THE crescent moon, with pallid glow,Swept backward like a bended bow:Across, a shaft of phantom lightThrilled, like an arrow winged ...
FAIR Muse, beloved of all, thou art no highImperious goddess of the mount or main,But a sweet maiden of the ...
YE pleasant myths of Eld, why have ye fled?The earth has fallen from her blissful primeOf summer years, the dews ...
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