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 ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Fate & Destiny (31 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Frida And Her Poet (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
The Hanging Of Black Kudjo (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WELL, Maussa! if you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true.Doh de berry taut ob dat bad time ...
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 Lordship Of Corfu (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A LEGEND OF 1516.WHAT time o'er gory lands and threatening seasFair fortune, wearied, fled the Genoese--What time from many a ...
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 ...
The Condemned (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
Fameless Graves (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I WALKED the ancient graveyard's ample round,Yet found therein not one illustrious nameWedded by Death to Fame.The sea-winds moaned by ...
Roly Poly (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ROLY POLY'S just awakened,Wakened in his cosy bed,All his dainty ringlets tumbledO'er his shoulders, and his head:Roly Poly's cheeks are ...
The Realm Of Rest (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
In the realm that Nature boundethAre there balmy shores of peace,Where no passion-torrent soundeth,And no storm-wind seeks release?Rest they 'mid ...
The Death Of Hood (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE maimed and broken warrior lay,By his last foeman brought to bay.No sounds of battlefield were there--The drum's deep bass, ...
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 ...
The Red And White Rose (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE Red Rose bowed one golden summer's night,The Red Rose bent, low whispering to the White,"Thou pallid shadow of a ...
From The Woods (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHY should I, with a mournful, morbid spleen,Lament that here, in this half-desert scene,My lot is placed?At least the poet-winds ...
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 ...
Aethra (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
It is a sweet tradition, with a soulOf tenderest pathos! Hearken, love!—for allThe sacred undercurrents of the heartThrill to its ...
A Plea For The Gray (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN the land' s martyr, mid her tears,Outbreathed his latest breath,The discord of long, festering years,Lay also dumb in death:Our ...
Three Portraits Of Boys (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
STURDY little form, of trueSaxon pattern, through and through;Face as purely Saxon, too,With a smile demure and sly,Dimpled cheek and ...
Lyric of Action (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
'Tis the part of a coward to broodO'er the past that is withered and dead:What though the heart's roses are ...
Two Songs (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FIRST SONG.LET me die by the sea!When his billows are haughty and high,And the storm-wind's abroad,--When his dark passion grasps ...
By The Grave (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THIS is the place--I pray thee, friend,Leave me alone with that dread grief,Whose raven wings o'erarch the grave,Closed on a ...
Jetsam (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BESIDE the coast for many a roodWere fragments of a shipwreck strewn;And there in sad and sombre moodI walked the ...
Finis (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A MOMENT'S gleam, hint of sunnier weather,Borne from the storm-clouds and the mists of fate;Dawned, with a tender "Peradventure" hither,A ...
Time Universality Of Grief (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I GRANT you that our fate is terrible,Bitter as gall. What then? Will lamentation,Childish complaint, everlasting wailings,Grief, groans, despair, help ...
The Cnydian Oracle (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"What though the Isthmus lacks an ocean-gate,Delve not the soil! If Jove had willed it so,His watchful power had opened ...
Composed In Autumn (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WITH these dead leaves stripped from a withered tree,And slowly fluttering round us, gentle friend,Some faithless soul a sad presage ...
Sonnet XII (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I STOOD in twilight by the winter's sea;The spectral tides with hollow, hungry roar,Broke massed and mighty on the shrinking ...