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Paul Hamilton Hayne

1830–1886

Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) was a Charleston-born poet and critic, among the leading literary figures of the post-war South.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where it is printed under his or her name: The Battle of Charleston Harbor.

Poems (17)

  1. The Battle of Charleston Harbor
  2. The Black Flag
  3. Macdonald's Raid
  4. Beyond the Potomac
  5. Butler's Proclamation
  6. Vicksburg
  7. Charleston
  8. South Carolina to the States of the North
  9. The Stricken South to the North
  10. Yorktown Centennial Lyric
  11. Aspects of the Pines
  12. Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon
  13. A Storm in the Distance
  14. The Rose and Thorn
  15. A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet
  16. In Harbor
  17. Pre-Existence

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