Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne Complete edition with numerous illustrations |
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SKATING.
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Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne | ||
SKATING.
I chased the maid with rapid feet,
Where ice and sunbeam quiver;
But still beyond me, shyly fleet,
She flashed far down the river.
Where ice and sunbeam quiver;
But still beyond me, shyly fleet,
She flashed far down the river.
Sometimes, blown backward in the chase,
With balmy, soft caresses,
I felt across my glowing face
The waft of perfumed tresses.
With balmy, soft caresses,
I felt across my glowing face
The waft of perfumed tresses.
Sometimes a glance she shot behind,
O'er graceful shoulders turning
A cheek whose tints the eager wind
Had set like sunrise burning.
O'er graceful shoulders turning
A cheek whose tints the eager wind
Had set like sunrise burning.
Then, in a sudden onward glide,
She rushed with even motion,
As a long wave the restless tide
Drives shoreward fast from ocean;
She rushed with even motion,
As a long wave the restless tide
Drives shoreward fast from ocean;
And swift as some winged creature sped
Far down the crystal river,
Until the shining form that fled
I dreamed might fly forever.
Far down the crystal river,
Until the shining form that fled
I dreamed might fly forever.
Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne | ||