William Hamilton Hayne

Poems (5)

• A Cyclone at Sea

  A throat of thunder, a tameless heart, / And a passion malign and free, …

• Sleep and His Brother Death

  Just ere the darkness is withdrawn, / In seasons of cold or heat, …

• The Southern Snow-Bird

  I see a tiny fluttering form / Beneath the soft snow’s soundless storm, …

• The Yule Log

  Out of the mighty Yule log came / The crooning of the lithe wood-flame,— …

• To a Cherokee Rose

  Thy one white leaf is open to the sky, / And o’er thy heart swift lights and shadows pass,— …