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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The day returns by which we date our years:Day of the joy of giving,-that means love;Day of the joy of ...
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 ...
Only a little shrivelled seed,It might be flower, or grass, or weed;Only a box of earth on the edgeOf a ...
0 who will walk a mile with meAlong life's merry way?A comrade blithe and full of glee,Who dares to laugh ...
ITHE NATIVITYCould every time-worn heart but see Thee once again,A happy human child, among the homes of men,The age of ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
Waking from tender sleep, My neighbour's little child Put out his baby hand to me, Looked in my face, and ...
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
Now in the oak the sap of life is welling, Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings; Now on ...
Yes, it was like you to forget, And cancel in the welcome of your smile My deep arrears of debt, ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many ...
Let me but feel thy look's embrace, Transparent, pure, and warm, And I'll not ask to touch thy face, Or ...
Joyful, joyful we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love, Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, hail Thee as ...
To the music of Beethoven's ninth symphony Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love; Hearts unfold ...
All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, All the flocks of fleecy clouds have wandered past the ...
O who will walk a mile with me Along life's merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, Who ...
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