The Adventures Of Little Bob Bonnyface (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
SOBER September, robed in gray and dun,Smiled from the forest in half-pensive wise;A misty sweetness shone in her mild eyes,And ...
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
AND where he sat beneath the mystic stars,Nigh the twin founts of Immortality,That feed fair channels of the Stream 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 ...
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 ...
Here in these mellow grasses, the whole morn,I love to rest; yonder, the ripening cornRustles its greenery; and his blithesome ...
O LOVE, it is our wedding day!This morn,--how swift the seasons flee!--A virgin morn of cloudless May,You gave your loyal ...
OH, drearily, how drearily, the sombre eve comes down!And wearily, how wearily, the seaward breezes blow!But place your little hand ...
FROM garish light and life apart,Shrined in the woodland's secret heart,With delicate mists of morning furledFantastic o'er its shadowy world,The ...
PERCHANCE our inward world may partly beBut outward Nature's fine epitome;Now, o'er it floats some cloud of tender painToo frail ...
OH, Blanche is a city lady,Bedecked in her silks and lace:She walks with the mien of a stately queen,And a ...
WHEN o'er yon forest solitudesThe sky of autumn evening broods--A heaven whose warp, but palely bright,Shot through with woofs of ...
O FRESH, how fresh and fairThrough the crystal gulfs of air,The fairy South Wind floateth on her subtle wings of ...
SMALL epicurean, would to heaven that ICould borrow your lithe body and swift wingTo speed, a lightning atom through the ...
A SOFTENING of the misty heaven,A subtle murmur in the air;The electric flash through coverts oldOf many a shy wing, ...
AH, well I know the reason whyThey called her by that graceful name:She seems a creature born with wings,O'er which ...
FLY, swiftly flyThrough yon fair sky,O purple-pinioned Hours!And bring once more the balmy night,When from her lattice, silvery bright,Love's beacon-star--her ...
I LIFT thee, thus, thou brown and rugged cone,Well poised and high,Between the flowering grasses and the sky;And, as sea-voices ...
THERE is a golden season in our year,Between October's hale and lusty cheer,And the hoar frost of winter's empire drear;Which, ...
KATIE, Katie, little Katie!Mouth of rose and eyes of blue,(Eyes that look one frankly through!)When I'm absent don't you miss ...
LET the world roll blindly on!Give me shallow, give me sun,And a perfumed eve as this is:Let me lie,Dreamfully,When the ...
A GOLDEN pallor of voluptuous lightFilled the warm southern night:The moon, clear orbed, above the sylvan sceneMoved like a stately ...
THAT'S the dove, my darling!Murmurous, soft and tender;There! she's mooning, crooning,On a pine-branch slender.And ah! it's the dove, the dove, ...
BESIDE the coast for many a roodWere fragments of a shipwreck strewn;And there in sad and sombre moodI walked the ...
GURGLE, gurgle, gurgle,Over ledge and stone;How I'm going, flowing,Westward, all alone;All alone, but happy,Happy and hale am I,Clasped by the ...
OF all the woodland flowers of earlier spring,These golden jasmines, each an air-hung bower.Meet for the Queen of Fairies' tiring ...
IT hath been thine to prove what use and power,What sweetness, and what glorious strength belongTo the brief compass of ...
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