Widderin’s Race. Australian. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
I HAD a vision at that mystic hour,When in the ebon garden of the Night,Blooms the Cimmerian flowerOf doubt and ...
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
THE fashions and the forms of men decay,The seasons perish, the calm sunsets die,Ne'er with the same bright pomp of ...
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 ...
SCENE I.[The hall of a country house in Westmoreland, surrounded with portraits of the M. . . . family. Allan ...
THEY declare that I'm gracefully pretty,The very best waltzer that whirls;They say I am sparkling and witty,The pearl, the queen ...
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
THEY slept on the field which their valor had won,But arose with the first early blush of the sun,For they ...
MORTALS there are who seem, all over, flame,Vitalized radiance, keen, intense, and high,Whose souls, like planets in it dominant sky,Burn ...
WINGED poet of vernal ethers!Ah! where hast thou lingered long?I have missed thy passionate, skyward flightsAnd the trills of thy ...
FROM garish light and life apart,Shrined in the woodland's secret heart,With delicate mists of morning furledFantastic o'er its shadowy world,The ...
LIKE streamlets to a silent sea,These songs with varied motionFlow from bright fancy's uplands free,To Lethe's clouded ocean;They lapse in ...
CALMLY beside her tropic strand,An empress, brave and loyal,I see the watchful city stand,With aspect sternly royal;She knows her mortal ...
THE man who's wholly ruined, sir, fears nothing;How can he when all's lost to him already?There is a desperate gayety ...
I AM happy with her I love,In a circle of charmed repose;My soul leaps up to follow her feetWherever my ...
The laughing Hours before her feet,Are scattering spring-time roses,And the voices in her soul are sweetAs music's mellowed closes;All hopes ...
AH! you tricksy little elf,How you idolize yourself!And believe the world was madeLike a gay-hued masquerade,Just for you to sport ...
Tall, somber, grim, against the morning skyThey rise, scarce touched by melancholy airs,Which stir the fadeless foliage dreamfully,As if from ...
AS I gazed on the prospect enchanted,On waves the sun-glory had kissed,There slowly swept down from the distance,The phantom-like bands ...
THROW by the trappings of your tinsel rhyme!Hush the crude voice, whose neverending wailBlights the sweet song of thrush, or ...
ALL night the north wind blew; the harsh north rainLashed like a spiteful whip at roof and sill.Now the pale ...
THE glorious star of morning would we blameBecause it burns not on the front of night?Or the calm evening planet, ...
ONCE in the twilight hour there stole on meA strange, sweet spirit! In her tender eyesShone a far beauty, like ...
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