Daphles. An Argive Story (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONCE on the throne of Argos sat a maid,Daphles the fair; serene and unafraidShe ruled her realm, for the rough ...
ONCE on the throne of Argos sat a maid,Daphles the fair; serene and unafraidShe ruled her realm, for the rough ...
I.LOVE scorns degrees! the low he lifteth high,The high he draweth down to that fair plainWhereon, in his divine equality,Two ...
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
I SAT within my tranquil room;The twilight shadows sank and roseWith slowly flickering motions, wavedGrotesquely through the dusk repose;There came ...
HER step is soft as a fay's footfall,And her eyes are wonderful founts of blue;But I've seen that small foot ...
HERE the warm sunshine fillsLike wine of gods the deepening, cup-shaped dells,Embossed with marvellous flowers; the happy rillsRoam through the ...
SHE hath no beauty in her face,Unless the chastened sweetness thereAnd meek long-suffering yield a graceTo make her mournful features ...
FROM day to day the dreary heavenOutpoured its hopeless heart in rain;The conscious pines, half shuddering, heardThe secret of the ...
HOW solemnly on mournful eyesThe mystic warning rose,While o'er the Singer's forehead liesA twilight of repose.The twilight deepens into night,--That ...
"PITY her," say'st thou, "pity her!" nay, not I!Her heart is shallow as yon garrulous rillThat froths o'er pebbles: grief, ...
FAIR Muse, beloved of all, thou art no highImperious goddess of the mount or main,But a sweet maiden of the ...
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