Widderin’s Race. Australian. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Gold (27 Poems)
Ode (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Delivered on the first anniversary of the Carolina Art Association, Feb. 10, 1856.THERE are two worlds wherein our souls may ...
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 ...
A Meeting Of The Birds (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
OF a thousand queer meetings, both great, sir, and smallThe bird-party I sing of seemed oddest of all!How they come ...
Washington! (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Feb. 22, 1732BRIGHT natal morn! what face appearsBeyond the rolling mist of years?A face whose loftiest traits, combineAll virtues of ...
Storm-Fragments (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE storm had raved its furious soul away;O'er its wild ruins Twilight, spectral, gray,Stole like a nun, 'midst wounded men ...
Artie’s “Amen” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY were Methodists twain, of the ancient school,Who always followed the wholesome ruleThat whenever the preacher in meeting saidAught that ...
The Silken Shoe (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE firelight danced and waveredIn elvish, twinkling gleeOn the leaves and crimson berriesOf the great green Christmas Tree;And the children ...
Cloud Pictures (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Here in these mellow grasses, the whole morn,I love to rest; yonder, the ripening cornRustles its greenery; and his blithesome ...
Will (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YOUR face, my boy, when six months old,We propped you laughing in a chair,And the sun-artist caught the goldWhich rippled ...
The Three Urns (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LIST to an Arab parable, whereinThe beauty of the Orient fancy shrinesA star-like truth, the iconoclastic WestIs blind to see, ...
The Solitary Lake (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
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 ...
Union Of The Blue And Gray (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE Blue is marching south once more,With serried steel and stately tread;Their martial music pealed before,Their flag of stars flashed ...
Motes (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
UP and down, up and down,In the air the sunshine mellows--Green or yellow, gold or brown,See those gay capricious fellows!Sparkling, ...
Harvest-Home (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
O'ER all the fragrant land this harvest day,What bounteous sheaves are garnered, ear and blade!Whether the heavens be golden-glad, or ...
The Chameleon (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I KNOW that I'm like, yet I am not, a snake!'Tis true that I glisten by boil and by brake,That ...
Hints Of Spring (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A SOFTENING of the misty heaven,A subtle murmur in the air;The electric flash through coverts oldOf many a shy wing, ...
Welcome To Winter (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
NOW, with wild and windy roar,Stalwart Winter comes once more,--O'er our roof-tree thunders loud,And from edges of black cloudShakes his ...
Violets (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A GUSTY wind o'ersweeps the garden close,And, where the jonquil, with the white-rod glows,Riots like some rude hoyden uncontrolled.But here, ...
A Christmas Lyric (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THO' the Earth with age seems whitened,And her tresses hoary and oldNo longer are flushed mad brightenedBy glintings of brown ...
The Village Beauty (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE glowing tints of a tropic eve,Burn on her radiant cheek,And we know that her voice is rich and low,Though ...
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 ...
The True Philosophy (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I'D have you use a wise philosophy,In this, as in all matters, whereuponJudgment may freely act; truth ever liesBetween extremes; ...
“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 ...
November (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WITHIN the deep-blue eyes of Heaven a hazeOf saddened passion dims their tender light,For that her fair queen-child, the Summer ...
Laocoon (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A GNARLED and massive oak log, shapeless, old,Hewed down of late from yonder hillside gray,Grotesquely curved, across our hearthstone lay;About ...
Distance (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHY is it that yon far-off, mellowed hornSounds like an antique story, half-forlorn,Half-sweet, with iterance of rare echoes sentUp the ...