Vera (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IA silent world,-yet full of vital joyUttered in rhythmic movements manifold,And sunbeams flashing on the face of thingsLike sudden smilings ...
IA silent world,-yet full of vital joyUttered in rhythmic movements manifold,And sunbeams flashing on the face of thingsLike sudden smilings ...
ODE FOR THE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF PRINCETON COLLEGEOctober 21, 1896IInto the dust of the making of manSpirit was ...
ITHE IVORY CRADLEThe cradle I have made for theeIs carved of orient ivory,And curtained round with wavy silkMore white than ...
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
The river of dreams runs quietly down From its hidden home in the forest of sleep, With a measureless motion calm and ...
A DRAMATIC LYRICCome, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!Uncrook your fingers from my throat, and let me ...
The roar of the city is low, Muffled by new-fallen snow,And the sign of the wintry moon is small and round ...
A Slumber Song For The Fisherman's Child Furl your sail, my little boatie; Here's the haven, still and deep, Where the dreaming tides, ...
How wonderful are the cities that man hath builded:Their walls are compacted of heavy stones,And their lofty towers rise above ...
Thou hast taken me into the tent of the world, O God:Beneath thy blue canopy I have found shelter:Therefore thou ...
Thou hast taken me into thy tent of the world, O God,Beneath thy blue canopy I have found shelter,Therefore thou ...
Who watched the worn-out Winter die? Who, peering through the window-pane At nightfall, under sleet and rainSaw the old graybeard totter by?Who ...
Ye gods of battle, lords of fear, Who work your iron will as well As once ye did with sword and spear, With ...
Under the cloud of world-wide war,While earth is drenched with sorrow,I have no heart for idle merrymaking,Or for the fashioning ...
How long the echoes love to play Around the shore of silence, as a wave Retreating circles down the sand! One after one, ...
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and startsfor ...
White Death had laid his pall upon the plain, And crowned the mountain-peaks like monarchs dead; The vault of heaven was glaring overheadWith ...
Mine enemies have prevailed against me, O God:Thou hast led me deep into their ambush.They surround me with a hedge ...
At dawn in silence moves the mighty stream, The silver-crested waves no murmur make; But far away the avalanches wakeThe rumbling echoes, ...
All night long, by a distant bell, The passing hours were notched On the dark, while her breathing rose and ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
"Lights out" along the land, "Lights out" upon the sea. The night must put her hiding hand O'er peaceful towns ...
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many ...
The melancholy gift Aurora gained From Jove, that her sad lover should not see The face of death, no goddess ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
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