The Battle Of King’s Mountain (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
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! ...
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 ...
I REMEMBER it well; 'twas a morn dull and gray,And the legion lay idle and listless that day,A thin drizzle ...
BEYOND the sunset, and the amber seaTo the lone depths of Ether, cold and bare,Thy influence, soul of all tranquillity,Hallows ...
I WALKED the ancient graveyard's ample round,Yet found therein not one illustrious nameWedded by Death to Fame.The sea-winds moaned by ...
THE storm had raved its furious soul away;O'er its wild ruins Twilight, spectral, gray,Stole like a nun, 'midst wounded men ...
DEAD! dead! in sooth his marbled brow is cold,And prostrate lies that brave, majestic head;True! his stilled features own death's ...
PERCHANCE our inward world may partly beBut outward Nature's fine epitome;Now, o'er it floats some cloud of tender painToo frail ...
WHAT mournful influence chills my soul to-night?I watch the expiring flames that fade and fall,From which outleap vague shafts of ...
DEAR mother, take me to thy breast!I have no other place of restIn all this weary world of men:Ah! fold ...
HERE, lonely, wounded and apart,From out my casement's glimmering round,I watch the wayward bluebirds dartAcross yon flowery ground;How sweet the ...
THE passionate sobs of the dear friends that cameTo look their last upon my living frame,And catch the fainting accents ...
YOUR hair is scant, my friend, and mine is scanter,On heads snowed white by Time, the disenchanter;In place of joyous ...
I SEE the cloud-born squadrons of the gale,Their lines of rain like glittering spears deprest(While all the affrighted land grows ...
PATIENCE! I yet may pierce the rindWherewith are shrewdly girded roundThe subtle secrets of his mind:A dark, unwholesome core is ...
O SKY! O lucid sky of May!O'er which the fleecy clouds have stolen,In bands snow-white, and glimmering-gray,Or heart-steeped in a ...
AT midnight wakening, through my startled brainThe sudden thunder crashed a chord of pain;I rose, and, awe-struck, hearkened. OverheadIn one ...
THERE comes all hour when all life's joys and painsTo our raised vision seemBut as the flickering phantom that remainsOf ...
DAY followed day; years perish; still mine eyesAre opened on the self-same round of space;Yon fadeless forests in their Titan ...
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