Vera (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IA silent world,-yet full of vital joyUttered in rhythmic movements manifold,And sunbeams flashing on the face of thingsLike sudden smilings ...
Henry Van Dyke Poems on Art (22 Poems)
The Toiling Of Felix (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IPRELUDE Hear a word that Jesus spake Nineteen hundred years ago, Where the crimson lilies blow Round the blue Tiberian lake: There the bread of ...
Texas (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
A DEMOCRATIC ODEITHE WILD-BEESAll along the Brazos river,All along the Colorado,In the valleys and the lowlandsWhere the trees were tall ...
Spirit Of The Everlasting Boy (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
The Grand Canyon (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
DAYBREAKWhat makes the lingering Night so cling to thee?Thou vast, profound, primeval hiding-placeOf ancient secrets,-gray and ghostly gulfCleft in the green ...
Ars Agricolaris (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
An Ode for the "Farmer's Dinner," University Club, New York, January 23, 1913All hail, ye famous Farmers!Ye vegetable-charmers,Who know the ...
An Angler’s Wish (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IWHEN tulips bloom in Union Square,And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town,Like children lost in Vanity ...
Santa Christina (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Saints are God's flowers, fragrant souls That His own hand hath planted,Not in some far-off heavenly place, Or solitude enchanted,But here and ...
To A Young Girl Singing (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Oh, what do you know of the song, my dear, And how have you made it your own?You have caught the ...
The Echo In The Heart (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
It's little I can tell About the birds in books;And yet I know them well, By their music and their looks: When May ...
Roslin and Hawthornden (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
FAIR Roslin Chapel, how divineThe art that reared thy costly shrine!Thy carven columns must have grownBy magic, like a dream ...
Tennyson: In Lucem Transitus, October, 1892 (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
FROM the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendors of the moon,To the singing tides of heaven, and the light ...
When Tulips Bloom (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I When tulips bloom in Union Aquare, And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town, Like ...
Without Disguise (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
If I have erred in showing all my heart, And lost your favour by a lack of pride; If standing ...
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
To James Whitcomb Riley (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
On his "Book of Joyous Children" Yours is a garden of old-fashioned flowers; Joyous children delight to play there; Weary ...
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 ...
The Proud Lady (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
When Stiivoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With ...
The Name of France (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Give us a name to fill the mind With the shining thoughts that lead mankind, The glory of learning, the ...
Peace (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
Nepenthe (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Yes, it was like you to forget, And cancel in the welcome of your smile My deep arrears of debt, ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...