The Visit Of Mahmoud Ben Suleim To Paradise (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
OFTTIMES an old man's yesterdays o'er his frail vision pass,Dim as the twilight tints that touch a dusk-enshrouded glass;But, ah! ...
Delivered on the first anniversary of the Carolina Art Association, Feb. 10, 1856.THERE are two worlds wherein our souls may ...
O! THE rolling, rushing fire!O! the fire!How it rages, wilder, higher,Like a hot heart's fierce desire,Thrilled with passion that appalls ...
WELL, Maussa! if you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true.Doh de berry taut ob dat bad time ...
SCENE I.[The hall of a country house in Westmoreland, surrounded with portraits of the M. . . . family. Allan ...
FIRST 'mid the lion Richard's host,Sir Aymer fought in Holy Land;And they loved him well for his honest heart,And they ...
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! ...
ALONE with nature, where her passionate moodDeepens and deepens, till from shadowy wood,And sombre shore the blended voices soundOf five ...
WHAT murmurs are these that so wofully riseInto heart-storms of agony borne from afar?A tempest of passion, a tumult of ...
I HAVE settled at last, in a sombre nook,In the far-off heart of the Norland hills,There's a dark pine forest ...
BEN YOUSSUF, bound to Mecca, day by dayToiled bravely o'er the desert's fiery way,Till its hot sands and flint-sown courses ...
To have the will to soar, but not the wings,Eyes fixed forever on a starry height,Whence stately shapes of grand ...
SEVEN weary centuries ere our star-like ChristRose on the clouded heavens of mortal faithGautama came, the stern high priest of ...
AS one who strays from out some shadowy glade,Fronting a lurid noontide, stern, yet bright,O'er mart and tower, and castellated ...
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