Union Of The Blue And Gray (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE Blue is marching south once more,With serried steel and stately tread;Their martial music pealed before,Their flag of stars flashed ...
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems on World (70 Poems)
Christ On Earth (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HAD we but lived in those mysterious days,When, a veiled God 'mid unregenerate men,Christ calmly walked our devious mortal ways,Crowned ...
Charleston (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
CALMLY beside her tropic strand,An empress, brave and loyal,I see the watchful city stand,With aspect sternly royal;She knows her mortal ...
Marion (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
URCHIN of the Syrian face,And half melancholy grace,With a look in your dark eyes,Sometimes deep and overwise;What shall be your ...
The Voice In The Pines (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE morn is softly beautiful and still,Its light fair clouds in pencilled gold and grayPause motionless above the pine-grown hill,Where ...
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 ...
Apart (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
COME not with empty words that say,"Your strength of manhood wastes awayIn long, ignoble, fruitless years!"I live apart from pain ...
On A Portrait (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A widower muses over the likeness of his dead wife.THE face, the beautiful face,In its living flush and glow,The perfect ...
Hints Of Spring (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A SOFTENING of the misty heaven,A subtle murmur in the air;The electric flash through coverts oldOf many a shy wing, ...
Consummatum Est (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I'VE done with all the world can give,Whate'er its kind or measure.(O Christ! what paltry lives we liveIf toil be ...
On The Decline Of Faith (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS in some half-burned forest, one by one,We catch far echoes on the doleful breeze,Born of the downfall of its ...
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 Summer Mood (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AH, me! for evermore, for evermoreThese human hearts of ours must yearn and sigh,While down the dells and up the ...
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 ...
T o W.H.H. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
How like a mighty picture, tint by tint,This marvellous world is opening to thy view!Wonders of earth and heaven; shapes ...
Lyric of Action (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
'Tis the part of a coward to broodO'er the past that is withered and dead:What though the heart's roses are ...
Lines II (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YE cannot add by any pile ye raise,One jot or tittle to the statesman's fame;That the world knows; to the ...
“An idle poet, dreaming” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AN idle poet, dreaming in the sun,One given to much unhallowed vagrancyOf thought and step; who, when he comes to ...
Senex To His Friend (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YOUR hair is scant, my friend, and mine is scanter,On heads snowed white by Time, the disenchanter;In place of joyous ...
The Village Beauty (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE glowing tints of a tropic eve,Burn on her radiant cheek,And we know that her voice is rich and low,Though ...
Dolce Far Niente (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LET the world roll blindly on!Give me shallow, give me sun,And a perfumed eve as this is:Let me lie,Dreamfully,When the ...
To O.W. Holmes. On His Birthday (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
DEAR Doctor, whose blandly invincible penHas honored so of tell your great fellowmenWith your genius and virtues, who doubts it ...
Herbert (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AH! you tricksy little elf,How you idolize yourself!And believe the world was madeLike a gay-hued masquerade,Just for you to sport ...
Finis (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
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 ...
The Awakening (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FROM day to day the dreary heavenOutpoured its hopeless heart in rain;The conscious pines, half shuddering, heardThe secret of the ...
Reconciliation (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LAND of the North! I waft to theeThe South's warm benedicite!Thou camest when all was grief and pain,The feverish blood, ...
The Penitent (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Thou see'st yon woman with the grave pelisseLined with dark sables? Is she not devout?Her soul is in the service, ...
The Inevitable Calm (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE sombre wings of the tempest,In fetterless force unfurled,Buffet the face of beauty,And scar the grace of the world;But they ...
Time Universality Of Grief (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I GRANT you that our fate is terrible,Bitter as gall. What then? Will lamentation,Childish complaint, everlasting wailings,Grief, groans, despair, help ...
The World (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE World is older than our earliest dates;All thoughts, all feelings, all desires, all fates,Were known and tested, long ere ...