The Vain King (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
Jesus, Thou divine Companion, By Thy lowly human birth Thou hast come to join the workers, Burden bearers of the ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
Through the strait pass of suffering -- The Martyrs -- even -- trod. Their feet -- upon Temptations -- Their ...
Knock with tremor -- These are Caesars -- Should they be at Home Flee as if you trod unthinking On ...
High from the earth I heard a bird, He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them ...
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale, He ate his egg with a ladle ...
Almighty Framer of the Skies! O let our pure devotion rise, Like Incense in thy Sight! Wrapt in impenetrable Shade ...
Two went to pray? O rather say One went to brag, th' other to pray: One stands up close and ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
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 ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows My friends forsake me like a memory lost, I am ...
The day had been a day of wind and storm;-- The wind was laid, the storm was overpast,-- And stooping ...
Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world, Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky, Bearing, with ...
Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world, Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky, Bearing, with ...
The Day that Youth had died, There came to his grave-side, In decent mourning, from the country's ends, Those scatter'd ...
Voices out of the shade that cried, And long noon in the hot calm places, And children's play by the ...
(Halted around the fire by night, after moon-set, they sing this beneath the trees.) What light of unremembered skies Hast ...
The day that YOUTH had died, There came to his grave-side, In decent mourning, from the country's ends, Those scatter'd ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The grey gulls drift across the bay Softly and still as flakes of snow Against the thinning fog. All day ...
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