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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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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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I. LONGFELLOW DEAD.
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II. ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
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III. DEAN STANLEY.
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IV. HIRAM H. BENNER.
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V. W. GILMORE SIMMS.
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VI. DICKENS.
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VII. TO BAYARD TAYLOR BEYOND US.
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VIII. BAYARD TAYLOR (UPON DEATH).
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IX. RICHARD H. DANA, SEN.
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X. BRYANT DEAD!
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XI. THE POLE OF DEATH.
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XII. THE DEATH OF HOOD.
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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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XIX.
THE HYACINTH.

Here in this wrecked storm-wasted garden-close
The grave of infinite generations fled
Of flowers that now lay lustreless and dead,
As the gray dust of Eden's earliest rose.
What bloom is this, whose classical beauty glows
Radiantly chaste, with the mild splendor shed
Round a Greek virgin's poised and perfect head,
By Phidias wrought 'twixt rapture and repose?
Mark the sweet lines whose matchless ovals curl
Above the fragile stem's half shrinking grace,
And say if this pure hyacinth doth not seem
(Touched by enchantments of an antique dream)
A flower no more, but the low drooping face
Of some love-laden, fair Athenian girl?
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