Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.
By William HamiltonHayne1262 Quatrains
E
The listening leaves, divinely stirred,
As if the vanished soul of Keats
Had found its new birth in a bird.
S
Around her woods and streams
The mists of night serenely creep—
For they are Nature’s dreams.
T
Is but a wandering Hamlet of the trees,
Who finds a tongue in every lingering leaf
To voice some subtlety of sylvan grief.
H
Are the sad exiles that depart
To melancholy’s rayless goal,—
A bleak Siberia of the soul.