A November Daisy (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Afterthought of summer's bloom!Late arrival at the feast,Coming when the songs have ceasedAnd the merry guests departed,Leaving but an empty ...
Afterthought of summer's bloom!Late arrival at the feast,Coming when the songs have ceasedAnd the merry guests departed,Leaving but an empty ...
There is a bird I know so well, It seems as if he must have sung Beside my crib when I was ...
Happy is the man that seeth the face of a friend in a far country:The darkness of his heart is ...
Oh, what do you know of the song, my dear, And how have you made it your own?You have caught the ...
It's little I can tell About the birds in books;And yet I know them well, By their music and their looks: When May ...
How long is the night, brother, And how long is the day?Oh, the day's too short for a happy task, And the ...
How long the echoes love to play Around the shore of silence, as a wave Retreating circles down the sand! One after one, ...
. THE HOUSEThe cornerstone in Truth is laid,The guardian walls of Honour made,The roof of Faith is built above,The fire ...
O Lord our God, Thy mighty handHath made our country free;From all her broad and happy landMay praise arise to ...
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and startsfor ...
The Lord is my teacher,I shall not lose the way to wisdom.He leadeth me in the lowly path of learning,He ...
Oh, was I born too soon, my dear, or were you born too late,That I am going out the door ...
I"How can I tell," Sir Edmund said, "Who has the right or the wrong o' this thing? Cromwell stands for the people's ...
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 ...
THE HOUSEThe cornerstone in Truth is laid,The guardian walls of Honour made,The roof of Faith is built above,The fire upon ...
The ways of the world are full of haste and turmoil;I will sing of the tribe of the helpers who ...
Oh, the angler's path is a very merry way, And his road through the world is bright;For he lives with the ...
IAt sunset, when the rosy light was dying Far down the pathway of the west,I saw a lonely dove in silence ...
Only a little shrivelled seed,It might be flower, or grass, or weed;Only a box of earth on the edgeOf a ...
0 who will walk a mile with meAlong life's merry way?A comrade blithe and full of glee,Who dares to laugh ...
In the blue heaven the clouds will come and go,Scudding before the gale, or drifting slowAs galleons becalmed in Sundown ...
IN MEMORIAMSoul of a soldier in a poet's frame, Heart of a hero in a body frail; Thine was the courage clear ...
(Presbyter of Christ in America, 1683-1708)To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, We bring the meed of praise too long ...
TO OLIVE WHEELERWinter on Mount Shasta,April down below;Golden hours of glowing sunSudden showers of snow!Under leafless thicketsEarly wild-flowers cling;But, oh, ...
I have no joy in strife, Peace is my great desire;Yet God forbid I lose my life Through fear to face the ...
May 4th, 1898.-To-day, fishing down the Swiftwater, I found Joseph Jefferson on a big rock in the middle of the ...
FAIR Roslin Chapel, how divineThe art that reared thy costly shrine!Thy carven columns must have grownBy magic, like a dream ...
White Death had laid his pall upon the plain, And crowned the mountain-peaks like monarchs dead; The vault of heaven was glaring overheadWith ...
Does the snow fall at sea? Yes, when the north winds blow, When the wild clouds fly low, Out of each gloomy wing, Silently ...
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