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 ...
A DEMOCRATIC ODEITHE WILD-BEESAll along the Brazos river,All along the Colorado,In the valleys and the lowlandsWhere the trees were tall ...
PHI BETA KAPPA ODEHARVARD UNIVERSITYJune 30, 1910IAll day long in the city's canyon-street, With its populous cliffs alive on either side, I ...
ITHE IVORY CRADLEThe cradle I have made for theeIs carved of orient ivory,And curtained round with wavy silkMore white than ...
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
The river of dreams runs quietly down From its hidden home in the forest of sleep, With a measureless motion calm and ...
A DRAMATIC LYRICCome, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!Uncrook your fingers from my throat, and let me ...
Recited at the Century Club, New York: Twelfth Night. 1906Come all ye good Centurions and wise men of the times,You've ...
IWhere's your kingdom, little king? Where the land you call your own, Where your palace and your throne?Fluttering lightly on the wing Through ...
IWHEN tulips bloom in Union Square,And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town,Like children lost in Vanity ...
Yes, it was like you to forget,And cancel in the welcome of your smileMy deep arrears of debt,And with the ...
I will sing of the bounty of the big trees,They are the green tents of the Almighty,He hath set them ...
Ye gods of battle, lords of fear, Who work your iron will as well As once ye did with sword and spear, With ...
A tear that trembles for a little whileUpon the trembling eyelid, till the worldWavers within its circle like a dream,Holds ...
Only a little shrivelled seed,It might be flower, or grass, or weed;Only a box of earth on the edgeOf a ...
FAIR Roslin Chapel, how divineThe art that reared thy costly shrine!Thy carven columns must have grownBy magic, like a dream ...
I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair And dewy feet, along the Alpine dells, To lead the cattle forth. A ...
What shall I give for thee, Thou Pearl of greatest price?For all the treasures I possess Would not suffice.I give my store ...
I When tulips bloom in Union Aquare, And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town, Like ...
I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair And dewy feet, along the Alpine dells To lead the cattle ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
Yes, it was like you to forget, And cancel in the welcome of your smile My deep arrears of debt, ...
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 ...
I love thine inland seas, Thy groves of giant trees, Thy rolling plains; Thy rivers' mighty sweep, Thy mystic canyons ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
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