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 ...
I know not whence; but on the morning airA ghastly whisper pales my waking cheek;A shudder in its warning seems ...
Thou art the music that I hear in sleep, The poetry that lures me on in dreams; The magic, thou, that holds ...
Waiting for words—as on the broad expanseOf heaven the formless vapors of the night,Expectant, wait the oracle of lightInterpreting their ...
O bird that seem'st in solitudeO'er tearful memories to brood,What sorrow hast thou known?Or is thy voice an oracleInterpreting the ...
O wind and waters, ye aloneHave chanted the primeval toneSince Nature first began.All other voices change, but yeAbide, the soul ...
His cloistered God the unborn messengerExulting, leaped to hear:His mother in the Mother of her LordInterpreting the Word.And whence is ...
THOU that wouldst enter here, Hold thy breath inward with an holy fear; Put off thy shoes, thou in this ...
You say there's a Being all-loving, Whose nature is justice and pity; Could you say where you ...
IDemeter devastated our good land,In blackness for her daughter snatched below.Smoke-pillar or loose hillock was the sand,Where soil had been ...
Bavaria, 1946The clairvoyante, a major general's wife, The secretaries' sibyl, read the letters They brought her from their GI soldier-lovers, ...
"THAT sovereign thought obscured? That vision clear Dimmed in the shadow of the sable wing, And fainter grown ...
Morn in the wake of the morning star Came furrowing all the orient into gold. We rose, and each by ...
ON the twilight-burnished hills I lie and long and gaze Where below the grey-lipped sands drink in the flowing tides, ...
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