Charleston Retaken. Dec. 14, 1782 (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS some half-vanquished lion,Who long hath kept at bayA band of sturdy forestersBarring his blood-stained way--Sore-smitten, weak and wounded--Glares forth ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Jesus Christ (28 Poems)
Allan Herbert (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE I.[The hall of a country house in Westmoreland, surrounded with portraits of the M. . . . family. Allan ...
My Mother-Land (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MY Mother-land! thou wert the first to flingThy virgin flag of freedom to the breeze,The first to front along thy ...
The Substitute (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
Little Nellie In The Prison (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
By The Grave Of Henry Timrod (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN last we parted--thy frail hand in mine--Above us smiled September's passionless sky,And touched by fragrant airs, the hillside pineThrilled ...
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 ...
The Three Copecks (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
CROUCHED low in a sordid chamber,With a cupboard of empty shelves,Half starved, and, alas, unableTo comfort or help themselves,Two children ...
Hiram H. Benner (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN the war-drums beat and the trumpets blare,When banners flaunt in the stormy air,When at thought of the deeds that ...
The Stricken South To The North (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN ruthful time the South's memorial places--Her heroes' graves--had wreathed in grass and flowers;When Peace ethereal, crowned by all her ...
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 ...
On The Death Of Canon Kingsley (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MORTALS there are who seem, all over, flame,Vitalized radiance, keen, intense, and high,Whose souls, like planets in it dominant sky,Burn ...
The Dead Child And The Mocking-Bird (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
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 ...
When All Has Been Said And Done. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
To Richard Henry Stoddard(In reply to his poem called "Wishing and Having.")"Perhaps it will all come right at last;It may ...
Christ On Earth (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HAD we but lived in those mysterious days,When, a veiled God 'mid unregenerate men,Christ calmly walked our devious mortal ways,Crowned ...
Forecastings (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN I am gone, what alien steps shall treadThis flowery garden-close?What alien hands shall pluck the violets sweet,Or gather the ...
Consummatum Est (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I'VE done with all the world can give,Whate'er its kind or measure.(O Christ! what paltry lives we liveIf toil be ...
Severance (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AH! who call tell how strong the tieWhich subtly binds us, heart to heart,Till the dark master, Death, comes nigh,To ...
Here And There (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HERE the warm sunshine fillsLike wine of gods the deepening, cup-shaped dells,Embossed with marvellous flowers; the happy rillsRoam through the ...
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 ...
“A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet.” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A LITTLE while (my life is almost set!)I fain would pause along the downward way,Musing an hour in this sad ...
Rachel (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE wan September moonbeams, struggling downThrough the gray clouds upon her desolate head,The coldness of their muffled radiance shedFaintly above ...
The Little Saint (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AT the calm matin hourI see her bend in prayer,As bends a virgin flowerKissed by the summer air;Oh, meek her ...
In A Spring Garden (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN Heaven was stormy, Earth was cold,And sunlight shunned the wold and wave,--Thought burrowed in the churchyard mould,And fed on ...
Thunder At Midnight (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AT midnight wakening, through my startled brainThe sudden thunder crashed a chord of pain;I rose, and, awe-struck, hearkened. OverheadIn one ...
Denial (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WE look with scorn on Peter's thrice-told lie;Boldly we say, "Good brother! you nor I,So near the sacred Lord, the ...
A Phantom In The Clouds (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ALL day the blast, with furious ramp and roar,Sweeps the gaunt hill-tops, piles the vapors high,Thro' infinite distance, up the ...
Sonnet VII (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SUNSET, the god-like artist, paints on airPictures of loveliness and terror blent!Lo! yonder clouds, like mountains tempest-rent,Through whose abysmal depths ...