A Bachelor-Bookworm’s Complaint Of The Late Presidential Election (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A MAN of peace, I never dared to marry,Lover of tranquil hours, I dwelt apart;Outside the realm where noisy schemes ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Kiss (17 Poems)
Frida And Her Poet (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
MacDonald’s Raid.-A.D. 1780. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I REMEMBER it well; 'twas a morn dull and gray,And the legion lay idle and listless that day,A thin drizzle ...
Renewed (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WELCOME, rippling sunshine!Welcome, joyous air!Like a demon shadowFlies the gaunt despair!Heaven, through heights of happy calm,Its heart of hearts uncloses,To ...
The Reason Why (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I'D like, indeed I'd like to knowWhy sister Bell, who loved me so,And used to pet me day and night,And ...
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 ...
Underground-A Fantasy (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MAJESTIC dreams of heavenly calms,Bright visions of unfading palms,Wherewith the brows of saints are crowned,--Awhile my soul resigns them all,Content ...
“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 ...
Kiss Me, Katie! (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
KATIE, Katie, little Katie!Mouth of rose and eyes of blue,(Eyes that look one frankly through!)When I'm absent don't you miss ...
The Inevitable Calm (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE sombre wings of the tempest,In fetterless force unfurled,Buffet the face of beauty,And scar the grace of the world;But they ...
The Lotos (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
DROOPING in the sunlit streams,We are wrapped all day in dreams;Morn and noon and evening lightRobed for us in garbs ...
Nature At Ease (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I FEEL the kisses of this lingering breeze,Warm, close, and ardent as the lips of love,I quaff the sunshine streaming ...
Sonnett IV (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HAST thou beheld a landscape dull and bare,On which, at times, a flying gleam was shedFrom some shy sunbeam shifting ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Lily (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
VIEW us, white-robed lilies,We whose beauty's rarenessSleeps until the bridegroom sunWoos our virgin fairness.Then, our bosoms baring,'Neath his ardent kisses,Stem, ...
Two Epochs (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LOVERS by a dim sea strandLooking wave-ward, hand in hand;Silent, trembling with the blissOf their first betrothal kiss:Lovers still, tho' ...