Francis Makemie (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
(Presbyter of Christ in Americas 1683-1708) To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, We bring the meed of praise ...
(Presbyter of Christ in Americas 1683-1708) To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, We bring the meed of praise ...
Across a thousand miles of sea, a hundred leagues of land, Along a path I had not traced and could ...
Wash of cold river in a glacial land, Ionian water, chill, snow-ribbed sand, drift of rare flowers, clear, with delicate ...
This dirty -- little -- Heart Is freely mine. I won it with a Bun -- A Freckled shrine -- ...
Only a Shrine, but Mine -- I made the Taper shine -- Madonna dim, to whom all Feet may come, ...
He touched me, so I live to know That such a day, permitted so, I groped upon his breast -- ...
A Diamond on the Hand To Custom Common grown Subsides from its significance The Gem were best unknown -- Within ...
And so I had a glaring revelation, I couldn't find the poet in the man although I read his life ...
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale, He ate his egg with a ladle ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
Know you fair, on what you look; Divinest love lies in this book, Expecting fire from your eyes, To kindle ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy ...
How fares it, friend, since I by Fate annoy'd Left the old home in need of livelier play For body ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now, When Reason, with a scornful brow, Is mocking at my overthrow! Oh, thy ...
O, thy bright eyes must answer now, When Reason, with a scornful brow, Is mocking at my overthrow! O, thy ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper, Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies, Incense of dirges, prayers ...
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