Poems by Paul Hamilton Hayne
Nature, Betrothed and Wedded
... Like some fair virgin, touched by lights and shades, ...
My Mother-Land
... Felt her great spirit nerved, her patriot valor strong ...
Midnight
... On earth and heaven, save when the shrill, ...
Experience In Poverty
... Dark days, and maddening midnight's, and the pang ...
T o W.H.H.
... Strength, radiance, beauty, and all things that hint ...
Two Pictures
... The cruel waves which drowned her lapped the shore ...
Hera
... And gleamed through twilight, like a flawless star, ...
The Ground Squirrel
... "Don't you see his soft burrow so quaint, lad! and queer ...
The Usurper
... Winter, rethroned, looked down with scornful pride ...
Valeries Confession. To A Friend.
... Later. AS the foam-flakes, when steadfastly blowing, ...
Coquette And Her Lover
... t changes with ludicrous quickness, from passion to bewilderment, and from bewilderment to rapture]: ...
Sonnet III
... And long, lithe throat, where twinkling flower on flower ...
The Black Destrier. A Ballad Of The Third Crusade
... Till the Saracens deemed, as their life-blood streamed, ...
Peach Blooms
... Nor will they reck--poor wilted waifs, and blind! ...
Sonnet II
... Quench the last spark that lingers on love's shrine: ...
