Ode II (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Immortality (26 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Unveiled (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
Krishna And His Three Handmaidens (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AND where he sat beneath the mystic stars,Nigh the twin founts of Immortality,That feed fair channels of the Stream of ...
A Character (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A.HE is a man whose complex characterFew can decipher rightly; but for meI have found the key at last!B.What make ...
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 ...
Under The Pine (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
To the memory of Henry TimrodThe same majestic pine is lifted highAgainst the twilight sky,The same low, melancholy music grievesAmid ...
Dean Stanley (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
DEAD! dead! in sooth his marbled brow is cold,And prostrate lies that brave, majestic head;True! his stilled features own death's ...
To Bayard Taylor Beyond Us (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A VISION OF CHRISTMAS EVE, 1878.AS here within I watch the fervid coals,While the chill heavens without shine wanly white,I ...
The Vision By The Sea (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I.A HAUNTING face! with strange, ethereal eyes,Deep as unfathomed gulfs of tranquil skiesWhen o'er their brightness a vague mist is ...
Two Graves (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I.IT glooms forlornly 'mid wan ocean dunes,A desolate grave-mound on a dreary lea,Touched by sad splendors of gray-misted moons,Or veiled ...
A Summer Mood (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AH, me! for evermore, for evermoreThese human hearts of ours must yearn and sigh,While down the dells and up the ...
“An idle poet, dreaming” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AN idle poet, dreaming in the sun,One given to much unhallowed vagrancyOf thought and step; who, when he comes to ...
Nature, Betrothed and Wedded (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HAVE you not noted how in early spring,From out the forests, past the murmuring brooks,O'er the hillsides, Nature, with airy ...
Christian Exaltation (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
O CHRISTIAN soldier! shouldst thou rueLife and its toils, as others do--Wear a sad frown from day to day,And garb ...
Bayard Taylor (Upon Death) (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"OFT have I fronted Death, nor feared his might!To me immortal, this dim Finite seemsLike some waste low-land, crossed by ...
To Edgar Fawcett (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ART thou some reckless poet, fiercely free,Singing vague songs an errant brain inspires?Mad with the ravening force of inward fires,Whose ...
II.–Death (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEN whence, O Death! thy dreariness? We knowThat every flower the breeze's flattering breathWooes to a blush, and love-like murmuring ...
Two Pictures (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SHE stood beneath the vine-leaves flushed and fair;The dimpling smiles around her tender mouth,Seemed born of mellow sunshine of the ...
At Last (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
In youth, when blood was warm and fancy high,I mocked at death. How many a quaint conceitI wove about his ...
II. Elliott In Fort Sumter (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AND high amongst these chiefs of iron grain,Large-statured natures, souls of Spartan mien,Superbly brave, inflexibly serene,Man of the, stalwart hope, ...
A Vernal Hymn (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE fresh spring burgeons into bloom--And Earth with all her vernal charmsLies like a queenly bride enclaspedWithin her heavenly bridegroom's ...
Ancient Myths (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YE pleasant myths of Eld, why have ye fled?The earth has fallen from her blissful primeOf summer years, the dews ...
Leigh Hunt (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
DESPITE misfortune, poverty, the dearthOf simplest justice to his heart and brain,This gracious optimist lived not in vain;Rather, he made ...
Bryant Dead! (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LO! there he lies, our Patriarch Poet, dead!The solemn angel of eternal peaceHas waved a wand of mystery o'er his ...