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 ...
IA silent world,-yet full of vital joyUttered in rhythmic movements manifold,And sunbeams flashing on the face of thingsLike sudden smilings ...
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 ...
PHI BETA KAPPA ODEHARVARD UNIVERSITYJune 30, 1910IAll day long in the city's canyon-street, With its populous cliffs alive on either side, I ...
The river of dreams runs quietly down From its hidden home in the forest of sleep, With a measureless motion calm and ...
THE LITTLE-NECK CLAMA modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted ...
The roar of the city is low, Muffled by new-fallen snow,And the sign of the wintry moon is small and round ...
How wonderful are the cities that man hath builded:Their walls are compacted of heavy stones,And their lofty towers rise above ...
Man the maker of cities is also a builder of altars:Among his habitations he setteth tables for his god.He bringeth ...
The lizard rested on the rock while I sat among the ruins,And the pride of man was like a vision ...
IN MEMORIAMSoul of a soldier in a poet's frame, Heart of a hero in a body frail; Thine was the courage clear ...
(Song for the City College of New York) O youngest of the giant brood Of cities far-renowned; In wealth and ...
The glory of ships is an old, old song, since the days when the sea-rovers ran In their open boats ...
The heavenly hills of Holland,-- How wondrously they rise Above the smooth green pastures Into the azure skies! With blue ...
O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, -- Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays, Whose amorous light enfolds ...
Children of the elemental mother, Born upon some lonely island shore Where the wrinkled ripples run and whisper, Where the ...
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting, Bearing me far away, after a perfect day of ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
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