Poetry Codex

American

Helen Hay Whitney

1875–1944

Helen Hay Whitney (1875–1944) was an American poet and philanthropist, the daughter of the statesman and author John Hay. In 1902 she married the financier Payne Whitney, and she later became prominent in New York society, as a breeder of racehorses, and as a benefactor of medical research.

She published four books of verse between 1898 and 1910: Some Verses (London, 1898, issued under the name Helen Hay), Sonnets and Songs (1905), Gypsy Verses (1907) and Herbs and Apples (1910). Her poems are chiefly short lyrics and sonnets of love, longing and the open road.

Poems (252)

  1. The Days
  2. The Everlasting Snows
  3. Throne and Altar
  4. East and West
  5. The Battle
  6. Water and Wine
  7. Pity Me Not!
  8. A Dream in Fever
  9. A Woman's Pride
  10. Age
  11. In the Mist
  12. On the Mountain's Slope
  13. To the Beloved
  14. My Brook
  15. Beneath the Moon
  16. The Ruby
  17. Spring and Autumn
  18. The Lost Moment
  19. The Coming of Love
  20. Evening at Washington
  21. Love's Kiss
  22. The Scarlet Thread
  23. Autumn
  24. The Tide of the Heart
  25. Does the Pearl Know?
  26. In Autumn
  27. Waiting for Day
  28. The Angel of Indifference
  29. Dear Dead Women
  30. The Grave of Hope
  31. Trees of the Wilderness
  32. The Love of the Rose
  33. In the Green Yew
  34. The Dead Night
  35. Song
  36. Sigh Not for Love
  37. Ambition and Love
  38. To B. D.
  39. Little Sad Face
  40. Earth's Tears--and Man's
  41. I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen
  42. A Lass From the Woods
  43. Was There Another Spring?
  44. To Diane
  45. Bird Love--Rose Love
  46. The Joy of Life
  47. Mist
  48. The Last Cloud
  49. Song
  50. In the Grave
  51. The Flowers of Proserpine
  52. Ave atque Vale
  53. "Chaque baiser vaut un roman"
  54. As a Pale Child
  55. Flower of the Clove
  56. Too Late
  57. The Supreme Sacrifice
  58. Malua
  59. Love's Legacy
  60. How we would Live!
  61. In Extremis
  62. The Forgiveness
  63. With Music
  64. Alpha and Omega
  65. Flowers of Ice
  66. Love and Death
  67. The Message
  68. Tempest and Calm
  69. After Rain
  70. Not through this Door
  71. Pot-Pourri
  72. Eadem Semper
  73. To a Woman
  74. Aspiration--I
  75. Aspiration--II
  76. The Gypsy Blood
  77. Not Dead but Sleeping
  78. The Last Gift
  79. Amor Mysticus
  80. The Pattern of the Earth
  81. Disguised
  82. On the White Road
  83. The Wanderer
  84. False
  85. A Song of the Oregon Trail
  86. The Apple-Tree
  87. Silver and Rose
  88. To-Morrow
  89. The Greater Joy
  90. The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree
  91. Good-Bye Sorrow
  92. In Harbor
  93. Rosa Mundi
  94. The Ribbon
  95. The Aster
  96. Heart and Hand
  97. The Golden Fruit
  98. To a Moth
  99. Winter Song
  100. Youth
  101. Persephone
  102. Etoiles d'Enfer
  103. Enough of Singing
  104. Truth
  105. The Philosopher
  106. Prayers
  107. A South-Sea Lover Scorned
  108. In May
  109. For Your Sake
  110. Lyric Love
  111. Be Still
  112. Butterfly Words
  113. Music
  114. The Ghost
  115. Fight!
  116. In Tonga
  117. This was the Song
  118. To E. D.
  119. The Dance
  120. Vanquished
  121. Tranquillity
  122. Oh, You Were Not So Idle
  123. Atarah
  124. Age
  125. Love and Dawn
  126. L’Amour Ambigueux
  127. Sapphics
  128. Satan, Prince of Darkness
  129. In Prison
  130. Ghosts
  131. Lilis
  132. The Old Women
  133. To Hippolytus
  134. The Garden Hedge
  135. The Slave Woman
  136. Song
  137. Sans-Joy
  138. Out of the Jungle
  139. In Port
  140. Sonny Boy
  141. Sunrise
  142. Dead Ladies
  143. When Tristan Sailed
  144. The Battle
  145. Recompense
  146. The Lotus Eaters
  147. Lost Aphrodite
  148. The Fools
  149. The Awakening
  150. The Dark Woman
  151. Summer Song
  152. Seraphis
  153. Vengement
  154. Autumn Love
  155. The Witch
  156. The Man
  157. Down in Maldonado Town
  158. The Choice
  159. The Brook
  160. At the End of the World
  161. The Gypsy
  162. Boy o’ Dreams
  163. Ballad of the Slave
  164. Foam
  165. The Seal
  166. Release
  167. Sin, the Sword
  168. Fantastic Spring
  169. Song
  170. Contrast
  171. The Price
  172. The King’s Daughter
  173. Lais
  174. The Heritage
  175. The Monk in His Garden
  176. Bianca
  177. Free
  178. Black and Gold
  179. The Answer
  180. Peace
  181. Barnabas
  182. Lost Dreams
  183. Lady of Light
  184. Song
  185. The Gypsy Blood
  186. And Yet
  187. Thro’ the Pleached Alleys
  188. To Neighbor Life
  189. The Unburied
  190. Up a Little Road
  191. On Cedar Street, New York
  192. Che Sarà Sarà
  193. The Dead Wanton
  194. Leaven
  195. Quaeritur
  196. Love Land
  197. By the Western Gate
  198. For Music
  199. The Little Ghost
  200. Madonna Eve
  201. A Conversation
  202. Be Brave
  203. Forfeiture
  204. The Search
  205. Dust
  206. Nature's Child
  207. Veritatis
  208. The Peacock
  209. Anticipation
  210. The Wayfarer
  211. Renunciation
  212. Arabesque
  213. The Architects
  214. Ambush
  215. The Scales
  216. The Old Tragedy
  217. Taboo
  218. The Rivals
  219. Alone
  220. Beneath the Mask
  221. Thoth
  222. Little Dancer
  223. Sic Itur ad Astra
  224. The Judges
  225. The Spring Planting
  226. An Impressionist Picture
  227. Such Help for Singing
  228. Tempus Edax Rerum
  229. The Coward
  230. The Lost Romany
  231. Compensation
  232. Untamed
  233. To Pervanche
  234. The Belle
  235. Release
  236. The Thief
  237. I Will Write Letters to the Grass
  238. Only This
  239. The Survivor
  240. Megaera
  241. The Song of Mokai
  242. To the Gypsy Man
  243. There Is No Danger in Disdain
  244. The Playmate
  245. Afterwards
  246. The Old Maid
  247. Madness?
  248. The Scholar
  249. Wisdom's Secret
  250. Caged
  251. The Wife Speaks
  252. The Altar

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