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 Sense & Perception (39 Poems)
W. Gilmore Simms (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE swift mysterious seasons rise and set;The omnipotent years pass o'er us, bright or dun;--Dawns blush, and mid-days burn, 'till ...
Ode (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Delivered on the first anniversary of the Carolina Art Association, Feb. 10, 1856.THERE are two worlds wherein our souls may ...
The Imprisoned Innocents (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
Muscadines (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SOBER September, robed in gray and dun,Smiled from the forest in half-pensive wise;A misty sweetness shone in her mild eyes,And ...
The Island In The South (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE ship went down at noonday in a cam,When not a zephyr broke the crystal sea.We two escaped alone: we ...
From The Conspirator (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
Visit Of The Wrens (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FLYING from out the gusty west,To seek the place where last year's nest,Ragged, and torn by many a routOf winter ...
Nature The Consoler (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
Under Sentence (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PLACE--Scotland. TIME--Thirteenth Century.OFF! off! no treacherous priest for me!What's Heaven? what's Hell? Eternity!It hath no meaning to mine ear.Unless--Stay, father! ...
Stuart (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
Renewed (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WELCOME, rippling sunshine!Welcome, joyous air!Like a demon shadowFlies the gaunt despair!Heaven, through heights of happy calm,Its heart of hearts uncloses,To ...
Artie’s “Amen” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY were Methodists twain, of the ancient school,Who always followed the wholesome ruleThat whenever the preacher in meeting saidAught that ...
Wind From The East (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE Spring, so fair in her voting incompleteness,Of late the very type of tender sweetness;Now, through frail leaves and misty ...
The Reason Why (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I'D like, indeed I'd like to knowWhy sister Bell, who loved me so,And used to pet me day and night,And ...
Coquette [Among The Family Portraits.] (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I.YES! there from out the gallery gloom,Retaining still a flush of bloom,I mark our bright ancestress glow--The maiden Rose of ...
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 ...
Jamie And His Mother-In The Tropics (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
JAMIE.O MOTHER, what country is that I seeFar over the stream and the boulders gray,Where the wind-song pipes, and the ...
Twilight Monologue (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
CAN it be that the glory of manhood has passed,That its purpose, its passion, its might,Have all paled with the ...
Lines (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THOUGH dowered with instincts keen and high,With burning thoughts that wooed the light,The scornful world hath passed him by,And left ...
A Plea For The Gray (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN the land' s martyr, mid her tears,Outbreathed his latest breath,The discord of long, festering years,Lay also dumb in death:Our ...
Lethe (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A DUMB, dark region through whose desolate heartCreeps a dull river with a stagnant flood;Its skies are sombre-hued, and dreary ...
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, ...
The Wind Of Onset (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WITH potent north winds rushing swiftly down,Blended in glorious chant, on yester-nightOld Winter came with locks and beard of white.The ...
A New Philosophy; Or, Star Showers Explained (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONE luminous night in winter,All crystal clear and still,A band of wondering childrenWere grouped by the window sill.The window looked ...
After Death (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE passionate sobs of the dear friends that cameTo look their last upon my living frame,And catch the fainting accents ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forest Quiet (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SO deep this sylvan silence, strange and sweet,Its dryad-guardian, virginal Peace, can hearThe pulses of her own pure bosom beat;And ...
Song Of The Naiads (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
GAY is our crystal floor,Beneath the wave,With strange gems flaming o'erThe Genii gave;Sweet is the purple lightThat haunts out happy ...