Songs Of The Imprisoned Naiad (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"WOE! woe is me! the centuries pass away,The mortal seasons run their ceaseless rounds,While here I wither for the sunbright ...
"WOE! woe is me! the centuries pass away,The mortal seasons run their ceaseless rounds,While here I wither for the sunbright ...
LIST to this legend, which an antique poetHath left among the musty tomes of eld,Like a flushed rosebud pressed between ...
THE ship went down at noonday in a cam,When not a zephyr broke the crystal sea.We two escaped alone: we ...
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
To Richard Henry Stoddard(In reply to his poem called "Wishing and Having.")"Perhaps it will all come right at last;It may ...
PERCHANCE our inward world may partly beBut outward Nature's fine epitome;Now, o'er it floats some cloud of tender painToo frail ...
I SEE the Nation, as in antique ages,Crouched with rent robes, and ashes on her head:Her mournful eyes are deep ...
MY father! in the vague, mysterious past,My boyish thoughts have wandered o'er and o'er,To thy lone grave upon a distant ...
It is a sweet tradition, with a soulOf tenderest pathos! Hearken, love!—for allThe sacred undercurrents of the heartThrill to its ...
FOR sixty days and upwards,A storm of shell and shotRained round us in a flaming shower,But still we faltered not."If ...
O FRESH, how fresh and fairThrough the crystal gulfs of air,The fairy South Wind floateth on her subtle wings of ...
THE man who's wholly ruined, sir, fears nothing;How can he when all's lost to him already?There is a desperate gayety ...
O SPIRIT! at whose wafts of chilling breathAutumn unbinds her zone, to rest in death;Touched by whose blight the light ...
I.A HAUNTING face! with strange, ethereal eyes,Deep as unfathomed gulfs of tranquil skiesWhen o'er their brightness a vague mist is ...
THO' the Earth with age seems whitened,And her tresses hoary and oldNo longer are flushed mad brightenedBy glintings of brown ...
FLY, swiftly flyThrough yon fair sky,O purple-pinioned Hours!And bring once more the balmy night,When from her lattice, silvery bright,Love's beacon-star--her ...
HAVE you not noted how in early spring,From out the forests, past the murmuring brooks,O'er the hillsides, Nature, with airy ...
AH, forest sweetheart! over land and seaI come once more, once more to stand by thee;My sylvan darling! set 'twixt ...
WITHOUT the squares of misted pane,I saw the wan autumnal rain,And heard, o'er tufts of churchyard ...
O SKY! O lucid sky of May!O'er which the fleecy clouds have stolen,In bands snow-white, and glimmering-gray,Or heart-steeped in a ...
A VOICE like the murmur of doves,Soft lightning from eyes of blue;On her cheek a flush like love'sFirst delicate, rosebud ...
OF all the woodland flowers of earlier spring,These golden jasmines, each an air-hung bower.Meet for the Queen of Fairies' tiring ...
IN springtime of our youth, life's purpling shade,Foliage and fruit, do hang so thickly round,We seem glad tenants of enchanted ...
IT hath been thine to prove what use and power,What sweetness, and what glorious strength belongTo the brief compass of ...
PENT in this common sphere of sensual shows,I pine for beauty; beauty of fresh mien,And gentle utterance, and the charm ...
I FEEL the kisses of this lingering breeze,Warm, close, and ardent as the lips of love,I quaff the sunshine streaming ...
DEFEATED! but never disheartened!Repulsed! but unconquered in will,Upon dreary discomfitures buildingHer virtue's strong battlements still,The soul, through the siege of ...
A TINY rift within the luteMay sometimes make the music mute!By slow degrees, the rift grows wide,By slow degrees, the ...
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