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 ...
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
THE firelight danced and waveredIn elvish, twinkling gleeOn the leaves and crimson berriesOf the great green Christmas Tree;And the children ...
YOUR face, my boy, when six months old,We propped you laughing in a chair,And the sun-artist caught the goldWhich rippled ...
OH, drearily, how drearily, the sombre eve comes down!And wearily, how wearily, the seaward breezes blow!But place your little hand ...
A VISION OF CHRISTMAS EVE, 1878.AS here within I watch the fervid coals,While the chill heavens without shine wanly white,I ...
I AM happy with her I love,In a circle of charmed repose;My soul leaps up to follow her feetWherever my ...
THE gusty and passionate March hath died;And now in the golden April-tideThere sits in the shade of her jasmine bowerA ...
I.A HAUNTING face! with strange, ethereal eyes,Deep as unfathomed gulfs of tranquil skiesWhen o'er their brightness a vague mist is ...
O WEARY winds! O winds that wail!O'er desert fields and ice-locked rills!O heavens that brood so cold and paleAbove the ...
HO! fetch me the winecup! fill up to the brim!For my heart has grown cold, and my vision is dim,And ...
I SEE the cloud-born squadrons of the gale,Their lines of rain like glittering spears deprest(While all the affrighted land grows ...
A MOMENT'S gleam, hint of sunnier weather,Borne from the storm-clouds and the mists of fate;Dawned, with a tender "Peradventure" hither,A ...
AT midnight wakening, through my startled brainThe sudden thunder crashed a chord of pain;I rose, and, awe-struck, hearkened. OverheadIn one ...
WE have passed the noonday summit,We have left the noonday heat,And down the hillside slowlyDescend our weary feet.Yet the evening ...
A MOMENT since his breath dissolved in air!And now divorced from life's last hectic glow,He joins the old ghostly years ...
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