When Tulips Bloom (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I When tulips bloom in Union Aquare, And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town, Like ...
I When tulips bloom in Union Aquare, And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town, Like ...
The glory of ships is an old, old song, since the days when the sea-rovers ran In their open boats ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
"Do you give thanks for this? -- or that?" No, God be thanked I am not grateful In that cold, ...
I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the ...
Unto like Story -- Trouble has enticed me -- How Kinsmen fell -- Brothers and Sister -- who preferred the ...
The Moon is distant from the Sea -- And yet, with Amber Hands -- She leads Him -- docile as ...
Oh Future! thou secreted peace Or subterranean woe -- Is there no wandering route of grace That leads away from ...
I know a place where Summer strives With such a practised Frost -- She -- each year -- leads her ...
Far from Love the Heavenly Father Leads the Chosen Child, Oftener through Realm of Briar Than the Meadow mild. Oftener ...
'Twas Crisis -- All the length had passed -- That dull -- benumbing time There is in Fever or Event ...
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man! Blush, ...
Bring me the sunset in a cup, Reckon the morning's flagons up And say how many Dew, Tell me how ...
I awoke with two poets in my bed, books I chose from the library, possibly intent on a swift read ...
Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...
What thousands never knew the road! What thousands hate it when 'tis known! None but the chosen tribes of God ...
God gives his mercies to be spent; Your hoard will do your soul no good. Gold is a blessing only ...
(Genesis, v.24) Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend ...
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Those moments, tasted once and never done, Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun. A far-off blow-hole booming like ...
The clock is frozen in the tower, The thickening fog with sooty smell Has blanketed the motor power Which turns ...
As he said vanity, so vain say I, Oh! Vanity, O vain all under sky; Where is the man can ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
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