Sonnets and Songs

This is a collection of sonnets and songs by American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite, and philanthropist Helen Hay Whitney.


By : Helen Hay Whitney (1876 - 1944)

01 - Ave atque Vale



02 - 'Chaque baiser vaut un roman'



03 - As a Pale Child



04 - Flower of the Clove



05 - Too Late



06 - The Supreme Sacrifice



07 - Malua



08 - Love’s Legacy



09 - How we would Live!



10 - In Extremis



11 - The Forgiveness



12 - With Music



13 - Alpha and Omega



14 - Flowers of Ice



15 - Love and Death



16 - The Message



17 - Tempest and Calm



18 - After Rain



19 - Not through this Door



20 - Pot-Pourri



21 - Eadem Semper



22 - To a Woman



23 - Aspiration - I



24 - Aspiration - II



25 - The Gypsy Blood



26 - Not Dead but Sleeping



27 - The Last Gift



28 - Amor Mysticus



29 - The Pattern of the Earth



30 - Disguised



31 - On the White Road



32 - The Wanderer



33 - False



34 - A Song of the Oregon Trail



35 - The Apple-Tree



36 - Silver and Rose



37 - To-Morrow



38 - The Greater Joy



39 - The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree



40 - Good-Bye Sorrow



41 - In Harbor



42 - Rosa Mundi



43 - The Ribbon



44 - The Aster



45 - Heart and Hand



46 - The Golden Fruit



47 - To a Moth



48 - Winter Song



49 - Youth



50 - Persephone



51 - Étoiles d’Enfer



52 - Enough of Singing



53 - Truth



54 - The Philosopher



55 - Prayers



56 - A South-Sea Lover Scorned



57 - In May



58 - For Your Sake



59 - Lyric Love



60 - Be Still



61 - Butterfly Words



62 - Music



63 - The Ghost



64 - Fight!



65 - In Tonga



66 - This was the Song



67 - To E.D.



68 - The Dance



69 - Vanquished



70 - Tranquillity

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