The Visit Of Mahmoud Ben Suleim To Paradise (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
A LEGEND OF 1516.WHAT time o'er gory lands and threatening seasFair fortune, wearied, fled the Genoese--What time from many a ...
A POET once, whose tuneful soul, perchance,Too fondly leaned toward sin, and sin's romance,On a long vanished eve, so calm ...
WHAT time o'er Persia ruled that upright KhanKhosru the Good, in Shiraz lived a man,A beggar-carle, to whose rough hands ...
OH, Blanche is a city lady,Bedecked in her silks and lace:She walks with the mien of a stately queen,And a ...
"PA vows that all gluttony's wicked;He's always for docking my meat,And ne'er at dessert will he give meEnough of what's ...
O CHRISTIAN soldier! shouldst thou rueLife and its toils, as others do--Wear a sad frown from day to day,And garb ...
SEVEN weary centuries ere our star-like ChristRose on the clouded heavens of mortal faithGautama came, the stern high priest of ...
AS one who strays from out some shadowy glade,Fronting a lurid noontide, stern, yet bright,O'er mart and tower, and castellated ...
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