Love Poems – Page 2497

Aspects of the Pines

Tall, sombre, grim, against the morning sky
They rise, scarce touched by melancholy airs,
Which stir the fadeless foliage dreamfully, …

Paul Hamilton Hayne English
Vicksburg

For sixty days and upwards,
A storm of shell and shot
Rained round us in a flaming shower, …

Paul Hamilton Hayne English
Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon

Between the sunken sun and the new moon,
I stood in fields through which a rivulet ran
With scarce perceptible motion, not a span …

Paul Hamilton Hayne English
A Storm in the Distance

I see the cloud-born squadrons of the gale,
Their lines of rain like glittering spears deprest,
While all the affrighted land grows darkly pale …

Paul Hamilton Hayne English
The Rose and Thorn

She ’s loveliest of the festal throng
In delicate form and Grecian face,—
A beautiful, incarnate song, …

Paul Hamilton Hayne English
A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet

A little while (my life is almost set!)
I fain would pause along the downward way,
Musing an hour in this sad sunset-ray, …

Paul Hamilton Hayne English
In Harbor

I think it is over, over,
I think it is over at last:
Voices of foemen and lover, …

Paul Hamilton Hayne English
Adonais

Shall we meet no more, my love, at the binding of the sheaves,
In the happy harvest-fields, as the sun sinks low,
When the orchard paths are dim with the drift of fallen leaves, …

Will Wallace Harney English
The Stab

On the road, the lonely road,
Under the cold white moon,
Under the ragged trees he strode; …

Will Wallace Harney English
Coronation

At the king’s gate the subtle noon
Wove filmy yellow nets of sun;
Into the drowsy snare too soon …

Helen Fiske Jackson English