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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.
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SONNETS.
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DRAMATIC SKETCHES.
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POEMS OF THE WAR. 1861–1865.
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LEGENDS AND LYRICS. 1865–1872.
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LATER POEMS OF IMAGINATION, SENTIMENT, AND DESCRIPTION.
  
UNVEILED.
  
MUSCADINES.
  
IN A SPRING GARDEN.
  
IN DEGREE.
  
THE SKELETON WITNESS.
  
STORM-FRAGMENTS.
  
ABOVE THE STORM.
  
UNDERGROUND—A FANTASY.
  
THE DRYAD OF THE PINE.
  
WELCOME TO FROST.
  
THE PINE'S MYSTERY.
  
TO A BEE.
  
THE FIRST MOCKING-BIRD IN SPRING.
  
THE RED AND THE WHITE ROSE.
  
BEFORE THE MIRROR.
  
TWO EPOCHS.
  
WIND FROM THE EAST.
  
PEACH BLOOMS.
  
THE AWAKENING.
  
LOVE'S AUTUMN.
  
THE SPIREA.
  
COQUETTE.
  
SKATING.
  
THE WORLD WITHIN US.
  
FOREST QUIET.
  
THE MOCKING-BIRD.
  
A STORM IN THE DISTANCE.
  
THE VISION BY THE SEA.
  
THE VISIONARY FACE.
  
THE ROSE AND THORN.
  
THE RED LILY.
  
LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE.
  
LAKE MISTS.
  
THE INEVITABLE CALM.
  
THE DEAD LOOK.
  
JETSAM.
  
FAMELESS GRAVES.
  
WINTER ROSE.
  
TRISTRAM OF THE WOOD.
  
HINTS OF SPRING.
  
THE HAWK.
  
OVER THE WATERS.
  
THE TRUE HEAVEN.
  
THE BREEZES OF JUNE.
  
A MOUNTAIN FANCY.
  
ABSENCE AND LOVE.
  
THE FALLEN PINE-CONE.
  
STERN TRUTHS TRANSFIGURED.
  
DISTANCE.
  
HORIZONS.
  
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.
  
DIVIDED.
  
THE MEADOW BROOK.
  
THE VALLEY OF ANOSTAN.
  
TWO SONGS.
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SONNETS.
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I. FRESHNESS OF POETIC PERCEPTION.
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II. LAOCOON.
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III. AT LAST.
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IV. A PHANTOM IN THE CLOUDS.
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V. JAPONICAS.
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VI. THE USURPER.
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VII. DECEMBER SONNET.
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VIII. A COMPARISON.
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IX. FATE, OR GOD?
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X. SONNET.
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XI. EARTH ODORS—AFTER RAIN.
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XII. SONNET.
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XIII. POVERTY.
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XIV. WASTE.
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XV. A MORNING AFTER STORM.
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XVI. DEAD LOVES.
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XVII. NATURE AT EASE.
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XVIII. THE CNYDIAN ORACLE.
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XIX. THE HYACINTH.
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XX. THE WOOD FAR INLAND.
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[XXI. A moment since his breath dissolved in air]
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XXII. MAGNOLIA GARDENS.
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XXIII. ENGLAND.
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XXIV. DISAPPOINTMENT.
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XXV. THE LAST OF THE ROSES.
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XXVI. THE AXE AND PINE.
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XXVII. BETROTHAL NIGHT.
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XXVIII. “THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA.”
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XXIX. TWO PICTURES.
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XXX. THE MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
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XXXI. NIGHT-WINDS IN WINTER.
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XXXII. TO THE QUERULOUS POETS.
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XXXIII. IN THE PORCH.
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XXXIV. THE PHANTOM—SONG.
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XXXV. SMALL GRIEFS AND GREAT.
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XXXVI. THE SHALLOW HEART!
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XXXVII. THE STORMY NIGHT.
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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.”
  
HERA.
  
BELOW AND ABOVE.
  
THE WOODLAND GRAVE.
  
A CHARACTER.
  
LYRIC OF ACTION.
  
BY A GRAVE.
  
SEVERANCE.
  
TWO GRAVES.
  
THE WORLD.
  
THE MAY SKY.
  
A LYRICAL PICTURE.
  
LAMIA UNVEILED.
  
RACHEL.
  
THE SNOW-MESSENGERS.
  
TO ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
  
THE ENCHANTED MIRROR.
  
THE IMPRISONED SEA-WINDS.
  
BLANCHE AND NELL.
  
THE DARK.
  
IN THE STUDIO.
  
WASHINGTON!
  
IN AMBUSH.
  
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.
  
ASSASSINATION.
  
ENGLAND.
  
TO LONGFELLOW.
  
“PHILIP MY KING.”
  
A PLEA FOR THE GRAY.
  
UNION OF BLUE AND GRAY.
  
THE KING OF THE PLOW.
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IN MEMORIAM.
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MEDITATIVE AND RELIGIOUS.
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FOUR POEMS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
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HUMOROUS POEMS.
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POEMS FOR CHILDREN.

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XVIII.
THE CNYDIAN ORACLE.

“What though the Isthmus lacks an ocean-gate,
Delve not the soil! If Jove had willed it so,
His watchful power had opened long ago
The channelled pathways of a billowy strait.”
Thus spake the Cnydian Oracle but too late;
For men are blinder than blind winds that blow
Round midnight waves, yet idly dream they know
Some Hermes' trick to steal the goods of fate.
Fools! trench your Isthmus, delving fast and deep;
And as ye toil uplift your boastful breath
O'er swift inrushings of the turbulent sea—
Too swift, by heaven! for, lo! its treacherous sweep
O'erwhelms the graded dykes, the opposing lea,
While ye that mocked at fate, fate whirls to death!
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