Poems begining by H
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Her Vesper Song
© Madison Julius Cawein
The _Summer_ lightning comes and goes
In one pale cloud above the hill,
As if within its soft repose
A burning heart were never still--
As in my bosom pulses beat
Before the coming of his feet.
Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God
© John Donne
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest,
My Soul, this wholesome meditation,
Hymn I
© John Greenleaf Whittier
O THOU, whose presence went before
Our fathers in their weary way,
As with Thy chosen moved of yore
The fire by night, the cloud by day!
Hernani
© George Meredith
Cistercians might crack their sides
With laughter, and exemption get,
At sight of heroes clasping brides,
And hearing--O the horn! the horn!
The horn of their obstructive debt!
Halte En Marchant
© Victor Marie Hugo
Une brume couvrait l'horizon ; maintenant,
Voici le clair midi qui surgit rayonnant ;
Her Eyes
© Madison Julius Cawein
In her dark eyes dreams poetize;
The soul sits lost in love:
There is no thing in all the skies,
To gladden all the world I prize,
Like the deep love in her dark eyes,
Or one sweet dream thereof.
Happiness
© Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
My sailing boat, crafted of redwood, is swift,
My flute is carved out of jasper.
Here They Trysted, And Here They Strayed
© William Ernest Henley
Here they trysted, here they strayed,
In the leafage dewy and boon,
Hymn After The Emancipation Proclamation
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
GIVER of all that crowns our days,
With grateful hearts we sing thy praise;
Through deep and desert led by Thee,
Our promised land at last we see.
Homer's Hymn To Minerva
© Percy Bysshe Shelley
I sing the glorious Power with azure eyes,
Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste, and wise,
Tritogenia, town-preserving Maid,
Revered and mighty; from his awful head
He found my Beingset it up
© Emily Dickinson
He found my Beingset it up
Adjusted it to place
Then carved his nameupon it
And bade it to the East
Hymn II. Wake my Soul, rise from this Bed
© John Austin
Wake my Soul, rise from this Bed
Of dull and sluggish earth:
Hamlet
© Boris Pasternak
The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter.
I am trying, standing in the door,
To discover in the distant echoes
What the coming years may hold in store.
Hymn For The Fair At Chicago
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
O GOD! in danger's darkest hour,
In battle's deadliest field,
Thy name has been our Nation's tower,
Thy truth her help and shield.
Housesso the Wise Men tell me
© Emily Dickinson
"Houses"so the Wise Men tell me
"Mansions"! Mansions must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!
Habakkuk
© Thomas Parnell
Here terrour leaves me with exalted head,
I breath fine air, and find the vision fled,
The Seer withdrawn, inspir'd, and urg'd to write,
By the warm influence of the sacred sight.
Hymn To Venus And Cupid
© Robert Herrick
Sea-born goddess, let me be
By thy son thus graced, and thee,
