The Ancestral Dwelling (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
No Lover saith, I love, nor any other Can judge a perfect Lover; Hee thinkes that else none can, nor ...
Whole Gulfs -- of Red, and Fleets -- of Red -- And Crews -- of solid Blood -- Did place ...
This that would greet -- an hour ago -- Is quaintest Distance -- now -- Had it a Guest from ...
My Portion is Defeat -- today -- A paler luck than Victory -- Less Paeans -- fewer Bells -- The ...
It troubled me as once I was -- For I was once a Child -- Concluding how an Atom -- ...
It was given to me by the Gods -- When I was a little Girl -- They given us Presents ...
I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl -- I read that Foreign Lady -- The Dark -- ...
I reckon -- when I count it all -- First -- Poets -- Then the Sun -- Then Summer -- ...
Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night Had scarcely deigned to lie -- When, stirring, for Belief's delight, My ...
From all the Jails the Boys and Girls Ecstatically leap -- Beloved only Afternoon That Prison doesn't keep They storm ...
Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at morn -- If One wake at Midnight -- ...
A Tongue -- to tell Him I am true! Its fee -- to be of Gold -- Had Nature -- ...
I Years had been from Home And now before the Door I dared not enter, lest a Face I never ...
I started Early -- Took my Dog -- And visited the Sea -- The Mermaids in the Basement Came out ...
We, the living, buried deep in selfish grief strive to comprehend the passing of your hour, minds are numbed, aghast ...
I thought my father was far too fat - eagerly I told him so, if he was offended it didn't ...
I love you in the morning and at the setting of the sun And in the hours of darkness before ...
Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue's Laws is true, And ...
1/ Genius is not a generous thing In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover ...
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
Window's tree trunk's predominant face a single eye-leveled hole where limb's torn off another larger contorts to swell growing in ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
One year ago I wished that I A banker great might be With a hundred million dollars And financial majesty; ...
It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors. They'd closed ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
Lo, now four other act upon the stage, Childhood and Youth, the Many and Old age: The first son unto ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
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