| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1262. Quatrains |
| | | By William Hamilton Hayne |
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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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EXILES
HOPES grimly banished from the heart | |
| Are the sad exiles that depart | |
| To melancholy’s rayless goal,— | 15 |
| A bleak Siberia of the soul. | |
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