Poems by Paul Hamilton Hayne
The Return Of Peace
... Lo! far away, (For now my dream grows clear as luminous day,) ...
To O.W. Holmes. On His Birthday
... You have toiled in life's noon, till the hot blasting light ...
The Penitent
... She weeps that youth itself, and the lost triumphs ...
Waste
... While faith and reason watch thy 'wildering plan, ...
Rachel
... Saying, low: "Where dwell in heaven my loved and lost ...
To my mother
... "The bird," thou saidst, "grown fleet and strong, ...
Absence And Love
... Alas! alas! Our tenderest love grows wan and dies ...
In The Mist
... --list! That ravening roar! that hungry boom! ...
Little Nellie In The Prison
... All white thoughts back, that from the heart of Christ ...
Appeal To Nature Of The Solitary Heart
... Like strange star-pulses, throbbed through space! ...
Battle Of Charleston Harbor, April 7, 1863
... There's not, in all this anxious crowd that throngs the ancient town, ...
The Imprisoned Sea-Winds
... Those prisoned sea winds rise and fall, ...
In Utroque Fidelis
... And thou, thou slumberest too, my woodland flower,-- ...
The Cnydian Oracle
... Too swift, by heaven! for, lo! its treacherous sweep ...
A Dream Of The South Winds
... Of that trance the South Wind brought me on her subtle wings of balm, ...