Ode II (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
PLACE--Scotland. TIME--Thirteenth Century.OFF! off! no treacherous priest for me!What's Heaven? what's Hell? Eternity!It hath no meaning to mine ear.Unless--Stay, father! ...
WHAT a pure and chastened splendor,What a grace of joyance tender,Like to starlight or to moonlight,Melting into fairy Junelight,Sleeps my ...
THE early springtime faintly flushed the earth,And in the woods, and by their favorite streamThe fair, wild roses blossomed modestly,Above ...
A.HOW bitterly you speak!B.I have good warrant.A.Well, for my part, I hold your creed is false.Uncharitable, monstrous! I have seenThe ...
I'D like, indeed I'd like to knowWhy sister Bell, who loved me so,And used to pet me day and night,And ...
WHEN ruthful time the South's memorial places--Her heroes' graves--had wreathed in grass and flowers;When Peace ethereal, crowned by all her ...
O LOVE, it is our wedding day!This morn,--how swift the seasons flee!--A virgin morn of cloudless May,You gave your loyal ...
I SAT within my tranquil room;The twilight shadows sank and roseWith slowly flickering motions, wavedGrotesquely through the dusk repose;There came ...
THOU hast thy mother's eyes, my child--Her deep dark eyes: the undefiledSweetness which breathes around her mouth,A perfect rosebud of ...
ONCE in a land of balm and flowers,Of rich fruit-laden trees,Where the wild wreaths from jasmine bowersTrail o'er Floridian seas;We ...
To Richard Henry Stoddard(In reply to his poem called "Wishing and Having.")"Perhaps it will all come right at last;It may ...
OH, Blanche is a city lady,Bedecked in her silks and lace:She walks with the mien of a stately queen,And a ...
ALONG the woods the whispering night-airs swoon,A single bird-note dies adown the trees,Clear, pallid, mournful, droops the summer moon,Dipped in ...
THE Red Rose bowed one golden summer's night,The Red Rose bent, low whispering to the White,"Thou pallid shadow of a ...
O! tenderly beautiful, beyond compare,Flushed from pale pink to deepest rosebud hue--Nurslings of tranquil sunshine and mild air,Of shadowless dawn, ...
DEAR mother, take me to thy breast!I have no other place of restIn all this weary world of men:Ah! fold ...
WHERE in her chamber by the Southern sea,Her taper's light shone soft and silvery,Fair as a planet mirrored in the ...
THE gusty and passionate March hath died;And now in the golden April-tideThere sits in the shade of her jasmine bowerA ...
AH, well I know the reason whyThey called her by that graceful name:She seems a creature born with wings,O'er which ...
HERE the warm sunshine fillsLike wine of gods the deepening, cup-shaped dells,Embossed with marvellous flowers; the happy rillsRoam through the ...
How like a mighty picture, tint by tint,This marvellous world is opening to thy view!Wonders of earth and heaven; shapes ...
O WEARY winds! O winds that wail!O'er desert fields and ice-locked rills!O heavens that brood so cold and paleAbove the ...
AH, mother! canst thou feel her? . . . spring has come!Birds sing, brooks murmur, woods no more are dumb;And ...
OVER her face, so tender and meek,The light of a prophecy lies,That has silvered the red of the rose on ...
OF all the subtle fires of earthWhich rise in form of spring-time flowers,Oh, say if aught of purer birthIs nursed ...
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