Stars and the Soul (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sand, and crystal ...
My God -- He sees thee -- Shine thy best -- Fling up thy Balls of Gold Till every Cubit ...
In Winter in my Room I came upon a Worm -- Pink, lank and warm -- But as he was ...
A Bird came down the Walk -- He did not know I saw -- He bit an Angleworm in halves ...
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
Every time I laugh aloud, who springs to mind but Johnnie Howard? Cathartic laughter eases stress which Johnnie causes in ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
GIVE me more love or more disdain ; The torrid or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain, ...
Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid, or the frozen zone, Bring equal ease unto my pain; The ...
THY restless feet now cannot go For us and our eternal good, As they were ever wont. What though They ...
The Saviour hides His face; My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love. The favor'd ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And ...
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
A short direction To avoid dejection, By variations In occupations, And prolongation Of relaxation, And combinations Of recreations, And disputation ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
There are many that I miss having sent my last one out a car window sparking along the road one ...
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, ...
Let me introduce to you my poetry: it's an island flying from book to book searching for the page where ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy, White o'er the playpen the sheen of her dress, Fresh from the bathroom ...
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
There is a meadow in Sweden where I lie smitten, eyes stained with clouds' white ins and outs. And about ...
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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