Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Fancy: III. Mythical: Mystical: Legendary | | Quatrains | | William Hamilton Hayne (1856–1929) |
| | MOONLIGHT SONG OF THE MOCKING-BIRD EACH golden note of music greets | |
| The listening leaves, divinely stirred, | |
| As if the vanished soul of Keats | |
| Had found its new birth in a bird. | |
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NIGHT MISTS SOMETIMES, when Nature falls asleep, | 5 |
| Around her woods and streams | |
| The mists of night serenely creep— | |
| For they are Nature’s dreams. | |
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AN AUTUMN BREEZE THIS gentle and half melancholy breeze | |
| Is but a wandering Hamlet of the trees, | 10 |
| Who finds a tongue in every lingering leaf | |
| To voice some subtlety of sylvan grief. | | | | |
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