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 ...
Henry Van Dyke Poems on Gold (17 Poems)
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 ...
Another Chance (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
A DRAMATIC LYRICCome, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!Uncrook your fingers from my throat, and let me ...
Ode To Peace (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IIN EXCELSISTwo dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height,Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the realm of shadows,-fine,And far, and ...
Spring In The North (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IAh, who will tell me, in these leaden days,Why the sweet Spring delays,And where she hides,-the dear desire Of every heart ...
Turn O’ The Tide (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
The tide flows in to the harbour,- The bold tide, the gold tide, the flood o' the sunlit sea,-And the little ...
Transformation (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Only a little shrivelled seed,It might be flower, or grass, or weed;Only a box of earth on the edgeOf a ...
The Bargain (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
What shall I give for thee, Thou Pearl of greatest price?For all the treasures I possess Would not suffice.I give my store ...
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 ...
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 Foolish Fir-Tree (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mare Liberum (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
You dare to say with perjured lips, "We fight to make the ocean free"? You, whose black trail of butchered ...
Fire-Fly City (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting, Bearing me far away, after a perfect day of ...
Flood-Tide of Flowers (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
IN HOLLAND The laggard winter ebbed so slow With freezing rain and melting snow, It seemed as if the earth ...
America’s Prosperity (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
They tell me thou art rich, my country: gold In glittering flood has poured into thy chest; Thy flocks and ...