Paul Hamilton Hayne
Best-known poems
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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 … -
Vicksburg
For sixty days and upwards,
A storm of shell and shot
Rained round us in a flaming shower, …
All poems (11)
- A Little While I Fain Would Linger YetA little while (my life is almost set!)
- A Storm in the DistanceI see the cloud-born squadrons of the gale,
- Aspects of the PinesTall, sombre, grim, against the morning sky
- Between the Sunken Sun and the New MoonI stood in fields through which a rivulet ran
- In HarborI think it is over, over,
- Ode to SleepBeyond the sunset and the amber sea
- PatienceShe hath no beauty in her face
- Pre-ExistenceWhile sauntering through the crowded street,
- The Rose and ThornShe ’s loveliest of the festal throng
- VicksburgFor sixty days and upwards,
- “Love scorns degrees”From “The Mountain of the Lovers”