The Black Birds (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhatten Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean ...
Why are we by all creatures waited on? Why do the prodigal elements supply Life and food to me, being ...
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest, My soul, this wholesome meditation, How God the Spirit, by angels ...
The Mountains stood in Haze -- The Valleys stopped below And went or waited as they liked The River and ...
Art thou the thing I wanted? Begone -- my Tooth has grown -- Supply the minor Palate That has not ...
The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying -- this to Us Made Nature ...
I felt my life with both my hands To see if it was there -- I held my spirit to ...
It was a fat-tyred 4WD utility hard back, the sort of ute you'd expect a contractor to drive, except it ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
(co-written by Sharon Robinson) Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day. I didn't see the time, I ...
The Vanishing They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Tweedledee said to Alice, "You like poetry-" "Ye-es, pretty well-some poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "What shall I repeat to her," ...
I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying. I said, "Wait on, wait on, while I ride ...
The flag that hung half-mast today Seemed animate with being As if it knew for who it flew And will ...
We used to picnic where the thrift Grew deep and tufted to the edge; We saw the yellow foam flakes ...
After the cloud embankments, the lamentation of wind and the starry descent into time, we came to the flashing waters ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
(John of the Cross) In a dark night, when the light burning was the burning of love (fortuitous night, fated, ...
Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon. The carp lay on the bottom, resting, while dusk took ...
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears ...
We waited commonly for sleep or even death. The instances were wearisome as ages. But suddenly the wind's refreshing breath ...
How beautiful the earth is still, To thee - how full of happiness! How little fraught with real ill, Or ...
Safe in the magic of my woods I lay, and watched the dying light. Faint in the pale high solitudes, ...
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