Milton (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
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 ...
I am two fools, I know- For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman that ...
Dawn has reached the ridges to the north and a thin line of light chased the night west; it is ...
Why Damon, why, why, why so pressing? The Heart you beg's not worth possessing: Each Look, each Word, each Smile's ...
Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue's Laws is true, And ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
Only the stars endome the lonely camp, Only the desert leagues encompass it; Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, Embattled ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Only the stars endome the lonely camp, Only the desert leagues encompass it; Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, Embattled ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Of late, in one of those most weary hours, When life seems emptied of all genial powers, A dready ...
Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they can come With clankum and blankum ...
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
It may indeed be fantasy when I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely ...
'Tis strange to think, there was a time When mirth was not an empty name, When laughter really cheered the ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom and desolate despair; A ...
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine ...
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