The Mountain Of The Lovers (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I.LOVE scorns degrees! the low he lifteth high,The high he draweth down to that fair plainWhereon, in his divine equality,Two ...
I.LOVE scorns degrees! the low he lifteth high,The high he draweth down to that fair plainWhereon, in his divine equality,Two ...
THE swift mysterious seasons rise and set;The omnipotent years pass o'er us, bright or dun;--Dawns blush, and mid-days burn, 'till ...
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
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! ...
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
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 ...
MY Mother-land! thou wert the first to flingThy virgin flag of freedom to the breeze,The first to front along thy ...
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
FLYING from out the gusty west,To seek the place where last year's nest,Ragged, and torn by many a routOf winter ...
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
HARK, hark! down the century's long reaching slopeTo those transports of triumph, those raptures of hope,The voices of main and ...
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
THE maimed and broken warrior lay,By his last foeman brought to bay.No sounds of battlefield were there--The drum's deep bass, ...
A.HOW bitterly you speak!B.I have good warrant.A.Well, for my part, I hold your creed is false.Uncharitable, monstrous! I have seenThe ...
THE sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard,The rifle hangs safe on the wall;No longer we quail at the hungryHot rush ...
I SAT within my tranquil room;The twilight shadows sank and roseWith slowly flickering motions, wavedGrotesquely through the dusk repose;There came ...
WHAT! still does the mother of treason uprearHer crest 'gainst the furies that darken her sea,Unquelled by mistrust, and unblanched ...
To J.A.D.HERE, at the sweetest hour of this sweet day,Here in the calmest woodland haunt I know,Benignant thoughts around my ...
MY father! in the vague, mysterious past,My boyish thoughts have wandered o'er and o'er,To thy lone grave upon a distant ...
UP and down, up and down,In the air the sunshine mellows--Green or yellow, gold or brown,See those gay capricious fellows!Sparkling, ...
CAN it be that the glory of manhood has passed,That its purpose, its passion, its might,Have all paled with the ...
I'VE done with all the world can give,Whate'er its kind or measure.(O Christ! what paltry lives we liveIf toil be ...
A LITTLE while (my life is almost set!)I fain would pause along the downward way,Musing an hour in this sad ...
FAIR as the dawn of the fairest day,Sad as the evening's tender gray,By the latest lustre of sunset kissed,That wavers ...
'Tis the part of a coward to broodO'er the past that is withered and dead:What though the heart's roses are ...
HAVE you not noted how in early spring,From out the forests, past the murmuring brooks,O'er the hillsides, Nature, with airy ...
WHEN Heaven was stormy, Earth was cold,And sunlight shunned the wold and wave,--Thought burrowed in the churchyard mould,And fed on ...
THE bliss for which our spirits pine,That bliss we feel shall yet be given,Somehow, in some far realm divine,Some marvellous ...
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