Texas (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
A DEMOCRATIC ODEITHE WILD-BEESAll along the Brazos river,All along the Colorado,In the valleys and the lowlandsWhere the trees were tall ...
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 ...
THE LITTLE-NECK CLAMA modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted ...
AMERICAN FLAG SONG1776O dark the night and dim the day When first our flag arose;It fluttered bravely in the fray To meet ...
Under the cloud of world-wide war,While earth is drenched with sorrow,I have no heart for idle merrymaking,Or for the fashioning ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:Thine ...
I have no joy in strife, Peace is my great desire;Yet God forbid I lose my life Through fear to face the ...
The winds of war-news change and veer:Now westerly and full of cheer,Now easterly, depressing, sourWith tidings of the Teutons' power.But ...
The rough expanse of democratic seaWhich parts the lands that live by libertyIs no division; for their hearts are one.To ...
Break off! Dance no more! Danger is at the door. Music is in arms. To signal war's alarms. Hark, a ...
Heart of France for a hundred years, Passionate, sensitive, proud, and strong, Quick to throb with her hopes and fears, ...
Give us a name to fill the mind With the shining thoughts that lead mankind, The glory of learning, the ...
Stand fast, Great Britain! Together England, Scotland, Ireland stand One in the faith that makes a mighty land, True to ...
Children of the elemental mother, Born upon some lonely island shore Where the wrinkled ripples run and whisper, Where the ...
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
Count not the cost of honour to the dead! The tribute that a mighty nation pays To those who loved ...
You dare to say with perjured lips, "We fight to make the ocean free"? You, whose black trail of butchered ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhatten Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean ...
1914-1916 What hast thou done, O womanhood of France, Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, What hast thou done, amid ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
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