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 ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on Mystery (23 Poems)
Unveiled (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
The Snow-Messengers (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
Ode To Sleep (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BEYOND the sunset, and the amber seaTo the lone depths of Ether, cold and bare,Thy influence, soul of all tranquillity,Hallows ...
Midsummer In The South (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I LOVE Queen August's stately sway,And all her fragrant south winds say,With vague, mysterious meanings fraught,Of unimaginable thought;Those winds, 'mid ...
The Realm Of Rest (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
In the realm that Nature boundethAre there balmy shores of peace,Where no passion-torrent soundeth,And no storm-wind seeks release?Rest they 'mid ...
Dean Stanley (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
DEAD! dead! in sooth his marbled brow is cold,And prostrate lies that brave, majestic head;True! his stilled features own death's ...
My Father (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MY father! in the vague, mysterious past,My boyish thoughts have wandered o'er and o'er,To thy lone grave upon a distant ...
Forecastings (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN I am gone, what alien steps shall treadThis flowery garden-close?What alien hands shall pluck the violets sweet,Or gather the ...
Violets (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A GUSTY wind o'ersweeps the garden close,And, where the jonquil, with the white-rod glows,Riots like some rude hoyden uncontrolled.But here, ...
“A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet.” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A LITTLE while (my life is almost set!)I fain would pause along the downward way,Musing an hour in this sad ...
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 ...
The Will And The Wing (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
To have the will to soar, but not the wings,Eyes fixed forever on a starry height,Whence stately shapes of grand ...
A Lyrical Picture (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SEE! See!How the shadows steal along,Blending in a golden throng,Softly, lovingly;From each mossed and quaint tree-column,Stretched toward the dimpling river,How ...
Life and Death (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I fear thee not, O Death! nay, oft I pineTo clasp thy passionless bosom to mine own,And on thy heart ...
Sonnet XII (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I STOOD in twilight by the winter's sea;The spectral tides with hollow, hungry roar,Broke massed and mighty on the shrinking ...
Sonnet II (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I FEAR thee not, O Death! nay oft I pineTo clasp thy passionless bosom to mine own,And on thy heart ...
Sonnet XIII (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I LAY in dusky solitude reclined,The shadow of sleep just hovering o'er mine eyes,When from the cloudland in the western ...
At Last (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
In youth, when blood was warm and fancy high,I mocked at death. How many a quaint conceitI wove about his ...
Fate, Or God? (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BEYOND the record of all eldest things,Beyond the rule and regions of past time,From out Antiquity's hoary-headed rime,Looms the dread ...
I.–Life (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SUFFERING! and yet majestical in pain;Mysterious! yet, like spring-showers in the sun,Veiling the light with their melodious rain,Life is a ...
Bryant Dead! (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LO! there he lies, our Patriarch Poet, dead!The solemn angel of eternal peaceHas waved a wand of mystery o'er his ...
The Pine’s Mystery (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ILISTEN! the sombre foliage of the Pine,A swart Gitana of the woodland trees,Is answering what we may but half divineTo ...