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 ...
A MAN of peace, I never dared to marry,Lover of tranquil hours, I dwelt apart;Outside the realm where noisy schemes ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
ALTON.YOU see that man with the quick eyes and brow,Too ponderous almost for his slender frame,His dark locks tinged with ...
O! HOP is a sailor used up in the war,With a single good leg to stand on;And a face as ...
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 SAT within my tranquil room;The twilight shadows sank and roseWith slowly flickering motions, wavedGrotesquely through the dusk repose;There came ...
OH, drearily, how drearily, the sombre eve comes down!And wearily, how wearily, the seaward breezes blow!But place your little hand ...
BEYOND our moss-grown pathway liesA dell so fair, to genial eyes,It dawns an ever-fresh surprise!To touch its charms with gentler ...
ALONG the woods the whispering night-airs swoon,A single bird-note dies adown the trees,Clear, pallid, mournful, droops the summer moon,Dipped in ...
WHY should I, with a mournful, morbid spleen,Lament that here, in this half-desert scene,My lot is placed?At least the poet-winds ...
AH! who call tell how strong the tieWhich subtly binds us, heart to heart,Till the dark master, Death, comes nigh,To ...
How like a mighty picture, tint by tint,This marvellous world is opening to thy view!Wonders of earth and heaven; shapes ...
OVER her face, so tender and meek,The light of a prophecy lies,That has silvered the red of the rose on ...
AMBUSHED in yonder cloud of white,Far-glittering from its azure height,He shrouds his swiftness and his might!But oft across the echoing ...
O DEEP grave eyes! that long have seemed to gazeOn our low level from far loftier days,O grand gray head! ...
WITHIN the deep-blue eyes of Heaven a hazeOf saddened passion dims their tender light,For that her fair queen-child, the Summer ...
THAT fair young land which gave me birth is dead!Lost as a fallen star that quivering diesDown the pale pathway ...
LO! there he lies, our Patriarch Poet, dead!The solemn angel of eternal peaceHas waved a wand of mystery o'er his ...
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