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 ...
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
DAYBREAKWhat makes the lingering Night so cling to thee?Thou vast, profound, primeval hiding-placeOf ancient secrets,-gray and ghostly gulfCleft in the green ...
The roar of the city is low, Muffled by new-fallen snow,And the sign of the wintry moon is small and round ...
A Slumber Song For The Fisherman's Child Furl your sail, my little boatie; Here's the haven, still and deep, Where the dreaming tides, ...
Dedicated to the Zodiac ClubWho knows how many thousand years agoThe twelvefold Zodiac was made to showThe course of stars ...
I never seen no "red gods"; I dunno wot's a "lure";But if it's sumpin' takin', then Spring has got it ...
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 ...
The time will come when I no more can playThis polished flute: the stops will not obeyMy gnarled fingers; and ...
I will sing of the bounty of the big trees,They are the green tents of the Almighty,He hath set them ...
Thou hast taken me into the tent of the world, O God:Beneath thy blue canopy I have found shelter:Therefore thou ...
Thou hast taken me into thy tent of the world, O God,Beneath thy blue canopy I have found shelter,Therefore thou ...
ITHE TURK'S WAYStand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Far off, for I will save my troubled folk In my own way. ...
Man the maker of cities is also a builder of altars:Among his habitations he setteth tables for his god.He bringeth ...
Ye gods of battle, lords of fear, Who work your iron will as well As once ye did with sword and spear, With ...
Many a tree is found in the woodAnd every tree for its use is good:Some for the strength of the ...
Under the cloud of world-wide war,While earth is drenched with sorrow,I have no heart for idle merrymaking,Or for the fashioning ...
The rivers of God are full of water,They are wonderful in the renewal of their strength,He poureth them out from ...
Blessed is the man that beholdeth the face of a friend in a far country,The darkness of his heart is ...
This is the thanksgiving of the weary,The song of him that is ready to rest.It is good to be glad ...
Happy is the man that seeth the face of a friend in a far country:The darkness of his heart is ...
How long is the night, brother, And how long is the day?Oh, the day's too short for a happy task, And the ...
O Lord our God, Thy mighty handHath made our country free;From all her broad and happy landMay praise arise to ...
The lizard rested on the rock while I sat among the ruins,And the pride of man was like a vision ...
FOR THE UNNAMED SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN FRANCEUniversal approval has been accorded the proposal made in the French Chamber that ...
The ways of the world are full of haste and turmoil;I will sing of the tribe of the helpers who ...
Only a little shrivelled seed,It might be flower, or grass, or weed;Only a box of earth on the edgeOf a ...
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