An Hour (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
You only promised me a single hour: But in that hour I journeyed through a year Of life: the joy of finding ...
Henry Van Dyke Poems on Life (68 Poems)
In Memoriam (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
The record of a faith sublime, And hope, through clouds, far-off discerned; The incense of a love that burnedThrough pain and doubt ...
Joy And Duty (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
"Joy is a Duty,"-so with golden loreThe Hebrew rabbis taught in days of yore,And happy human hearts heard in their ...
War-Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Break off! Dance no more! Danger is at the door. Music is in arms. To signal war's alarms. Hark, a ...
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 ...
To James Whitcomb Riley (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
On his "Book of Joyous Children" Yours is a garden of old-fashioned flowers; Joyous children delight to play there; Weary ...
The Wind of Sorrow (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
The fire of love was burning, yet so low That in the dark we scarce could see its rays, And ...
The Window (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
All night long, by a distant bell, The passing hours were notched On the dark, while her breathing rose and ...
They Who Tread the Path of Labor (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
They who tread the path of labor follow where My feet have trod; They who work without complaining, do the ...
The Vain King (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
The White Bees (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
This is the soldier brave enough to tell The glory-dazzled world that `war is hell': Lover of peace, he looks ...
The Empty Quatrain (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, ...
Stars and the Soul (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
Storm-Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees,-- Nothing but ...
Spring in the South (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Now in the oak the sap of life is welling, Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings; Now on ...
Stand Fast! (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Stand fast, Great Britain! Together England, Scotland, Ireland stand One in the faith that makes a mighty land, True to ...
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 ...
Reliance (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to ...
Patria (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I would not even ask my heart to say If I could love some other land as well As thee, ...
Milton (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
Mother Earth (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed, Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves 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 ...
Master of Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard, Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, ...
Might and Right (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage; If Right made Might, this were the golden age; But now, ...
Light Between the Trees (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Long, long, long the trail Through the brooding forest-gloom, Down the shadowy, lonely vale Into silence, like a room Where ...
Longfellow (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many ...
Keats (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
The melancholy gift Aurora gained From Jove, that her sad lover should not see The face of death, no goddess ...
Inscriptions for a Friend’s House (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
THE HOUSE The cornerstone in Truth is laid, The guardian walls of Honour made, The roof of Faith is built ...
Jeanne d’Arc Returns (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
1914-1916 What hast thou done, O womanhood of France, Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, What hast thou done, amid ...