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 ...
IPRELUDE Hear a word that Jesus spake Nineteen hundred years ago, Where the crimson lilies blow Round the blue Tiberian lake: There the bread of ...
A DEMOCRATIC ODEITHE WILD-BEESAll along the Brazos river,All along the Colorado,In the valleys and the lowlandsWhere the trees were tall ...
PHI BETA KAPPA ODEHARVARD UNIVERSITYJune 30, 1910IAll day long in the city's canyon-street, With its populous cliffs alive on either side, I ...
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
DAYBREAKWhat makes the lingering Night so cling to thee?Thou vast, profound, primeval hiding-placeOf ancient secrets,-gray and ghostly gulfCleft in the green ...
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 ...
Recited at the Century Club, New York: Twelfth Night. 1906Come all ye good Centurions and wise men of the times,You've ...
THE LITTLE-NECK CLAMA modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted ...
Dedicated to the Zodiac ClubWho knows how many thousand years agoThe twelvefold Zodiac was made to showThe course of stars ...
I never seen no "red gods"; I dunno wot's a "lure";But if it's sumpin' takin', then Spring has got it ...
I will sing of the bounty of the big trees,They are the green tents of the Almighty,He hath set them ...
How wonderful are the cities that man hath builded:Their walls are compacted of heavy stones,And their lofty towers rise above ...
Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue,America's crusading host of warriors bold and true;They battled for the ...
Man the maker of cities is also a builder of altars:Among his habitations he setteth tables for his god.He bringeth ...
Ye gods of battle, lords of fear, Who work your iron will as well As once ye did with sword and spear, With ...
Many a tree is found in the woodAnd every tree for its use is good:Some for the strength of the ...
IAT A BIRTHDAY FEASTWith memories old and wishes newWe crown our cups again,And here's to you, and here's to youWith ...
Blessed is the man that beholdeth the face of a friend in a far country,The darkness of his heart is ...
Happy is the man that seeth the face of a friend in a far country:The darkness of his heart is ...
The lizard rested on the rock while I sat among the ruins,And the pride of man was like a vision ...
FOR THE UNNAMED SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN FRANCEUniversal approval has been accorded the proposal made in the French Chamber that ...
(Presbyter of Christ in America, 1683-1708)To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, We bring the meed of praise too long ...
May 4th, 1898.-To-day, fishing down the Swiftwater, I found Joseph Jefferson on a big rock in the middle of the ...
There are many kinds of anger, as many kinds of fire;And some are fierce and fatal with murderous desire;And some ...
ITHE NATIVITYCould every time-worn heart but see Thee once again,A happy human child, among the homes of men,The age of ...
Honour the brave who sleep Where the lost "Titanic" lies,The men who knew what a man must do When he looks Death ...
"Joy is a Duty,"-so with golden loreThe Hebrew rabbis taught in days of yore,And happy human hearts heard in their ...
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