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Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne

Complete edition with numerous illustrations

Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1830-1886)

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YOUTHFUL POEMS.

DRAMATIC SKETCHES.

POEMS OF THE WAR. 1861–1865.

LEGENDS AND LYRICS. 1865–1872.

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LATER POEMS OF IMAGINATION, SENTIMENT, AND DESCRIPTION.

IN A SPRING GARDEN.

THE SKELETON WITNESS.

STORM-FRAGMENTS.

ABOVE THE STORM.

UNDERGROUND—A FANTASY.

THE DRYAD OF THE PINE.

WELCOME TO FROST.

THE PINE'S MYSTERY.

THE FIRST MOCKING-BIRD IN SPRING.

THE RED AND THE WHITE ROSE.

BEFORE THE MIRROR.

TWO EPOCHS.

WIND FROM THE EAST.

THE WORLD WITHIN US.

THE MOCKING-BIRD.

A STORM IN THE DISTANCE.

THE VISION BY THE SEA.

THE VISIONARY FACE.

THE ROSE AND THORN.

LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE.

THE INEVITABLE CALM.

FAMELESS GRAVES.

TRISTRAM OF THE WOOD.

HINTS OF SPRING.

OVER THE WATERS.

THE TRUE HEAVEN.

THE BREEZES OF JUNE.

A MOUNTAIN FANCY.

ABSENCE AND LOVE.

THE FALLEN PINE-CONE.

STERN TRUTHS TRANSFIGURED.

IN THE GRAY OF THE EVENING.

THE VISION AT TWILIGHT.

AN HOUR TOO LATE.

“TOO LOW AND YET TOO HIGH!”

THE LORDSHIP OF CORFU.

TALLULAH FALLS.

THE MEADOW BROOK.

THE VALLEY OF ANOSTAN.

PERSONAL SONNETS.

MACDONALD'S RAID.—A. D. 1780.

THE BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN.

THE HANGING OF BLACK CUDJO.

CHARLESTON RETAKEN.

TO THE AUTHOR OF “THE VICTORIAN POETS.”

BELOW AND ABOVE.

THE WOODLAND GRAVE.

LYRIC OF ACTION.

A LYRICAL PICTURE.

LAMIA UNVEILED.

THE SNOW-MESSENGERS.

TO ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.

THE ENCHANTED MIRROR.

THE IMPRISONED SEA-WINDS.

BLANCHE AND NELL.

SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE STATES OF THE NORTH.

THE STRICKEN SOUTH TO THE NORTH.

THE RETURN OF PEACE.

YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL LYRIC.

ON THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

“PHILIP MY KING.”

A PLEA FOR THE GRAY.

UNION OF BLUE AND GRAY.

THE KING OF THE PLOW.

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MEDITATIVE AND RELIGIOUS.

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I. CHRIST ON EARTH.

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II. HARVEST-HOME.

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III. RECONCILIATION.

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IV. A VERNAL HYMN.

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V. CHRISTIAN EXALTATION.

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VI. SOLITUDE; IN YOUTH AND AGE.

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VIII. LESSON OF SUBMISSION.

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IX. THE SUPREME HOUR.

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X. A CHRISTMAS LYRIC.

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XI. THE PILGRIM.

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XIII. PATIENCE.

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XIV. THE LATTER PEACE.

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XVII. A WINTER HYMN.

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XVIII. THE THREE URNS.

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XIX. ON THE DECLINE OF FAITH.

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XX. THE ULTIMATE TRUST.

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XXI. “A LITTLE WHILE I FAIN WOULD LINGER YET.”

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XXII. TWILIGHT MONOLOGUE.

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XXIII. THE SHADOW OF DEATH.

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XXV. THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL.

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XXVI. CONSUMMATUM EST.

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XXVII. THE BROKEN CHORDS.

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XXVIII. THE RIFT WITHIN THE LUTE.

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XXIX. IN HARBOR.

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XXX. FORECASTINGS.

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XXXI. APPEAL TO NATURE OF THE SOLITARY HEART.

FOUR POEMS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS.

HUMOROUS POEMS.

POEMS FOR CHILDREN.

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TWO EPOCHS.

Lovers by a dim sea strand
Looking wave-ward, hand in hand;
Silent, trembling with the bliss
Of their first betrothal kiss:

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Lovers still, tho' wedded long!
(Time true love can never wrong!
Gazing—faithful hand in hand,
O'er a darker sea and strand:
Ah! one lover's face is wan
As a wave the moon shines on;
But those strange tides stretched afar
Know not sun, nor moon, nor star!