From The Conspirator (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
MY Mother-land! thou wert the first to flingThy virgin flag of freedom to the breeze,The first to front along thy ...
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
FIRST 'mid the lion Richard's host,Sir Aymer fought in Holy Land;And they loved him well for his honest heart,And they ...
WHEN ruthful time the South's memorial places--Her heroes' graves--had wreathed in grass and flowers;When Peace ethereal, crowned by all her ...
I SEE the Nation, as in antique ages,Crouched with rent robes, and ashes on her head:Her mournful eyes are deep ...
THE Blue is marching south once more,With serried steel and stately tread;Their martial music pealed before,Their flag of stars flashed ...
MAMA'S in heaven! and so, you seeMy sister Bet's mamma to me.Oh! yes, I love her!--that's to say,I love her ...
THOUGH dowered with instincts keen and high,With burning thoughts that wooed the light,The scornful world hath passed him by,And left ...
METHINKS the airThrobs with the tolling of harmonious bells,Rung by the bands of spirits; everywhereWe feel the presence of a ...
YE cannot add by any pile ye raise,One jot or tittle to the statesman's fame;That the world knows; to the ...
O CHRISTIAN soldier! shouldst thou rueLife and its toils, as others do--Wear a sad frown from day to day,And garb ...
THOUGH in the wine-press of thy wrath divine,My crushed hopes droop, like crude and worthless must,That love and mercy, Father! ...
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