The Battle Of King’s Mountain (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
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! ...
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! ...
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 ...
SCENE I.[The hall of a country house in Westmoreland, surrounded with portraits of the M. . . . family. Allan ...
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
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 ...
WHAT murmurs are these that so wofully riseInto heart-storms of agony borne from afar?A tempest of passion, a tumult of ...
THE maimed and broken warrior lay,By his last foeman brought to bay.No sounds of battlefield were there--The drum's deep bass, ...
I'D like, indeed I'd like to knowWhy sister Bell, who loved me so,And used to pet me day and night,And ...
WHEN ruthful time the South's memorial places--Her heroes' graves--had wreathed in grass and flowers;When Peace ethereal, crowned by all her ...
MAMA'S in heaven! and so, you seeMy sister Bet's mamma to me.Oh! yes, I love her!--that's to say,I love her ...
ART thou some reckless poet, fiercely free,Singing vague songs an errant brain inspires?Mad with the ravening force of inward fires,Whose ...
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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