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 ...
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 ...
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 river of dreams runs quietly down From its hidden home in the forest of sleep, With a measureless motion calm and ...
A DRAMATIC LYRICCome, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!Uncrook your fingers from my throat, and let me ...
What time the rose of dawn is laid across the lips of night,And all the little watchman-stars have fallen asleep ...
IAh, who will tell me, in these leaden days,Why the sweet Spring delays,And where she hides,-the dear desire Of every heart ...
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 ...
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, ...
For the Mark Twain Dinner, December 5, 1905 Some three-score years and ten ago A prince was born at Florida, Mo.; And though ...
Dedicated to the Zodiac ClubWho knows how many thousand years agoThe twelvefold Zodiac was made to showThe course of stars ...
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 ...
For the St. Nicholas Society of New YorkAmong the earliest saints of old, before the first Hegira,I find the one ...
Yes, it was like you to forget,And cancel in the welcome of your smileMy deep arrears of debt,And with the ...
Remember, when the timid light Through the enchanted hall of dawn is gleaming;Remember, when the pensive night Beneath her silver-sprinkled veil walks ...
Man the maker of cities is also a builder of altars:Among his habitations he setteth tables for his god.He bringeth ...
Lord Jesus, Thou hast known A mother's love and tender care: And Thou wilt hear, While for my own Mother most dear I make this ...
The day returns by which we date our years:Day of the joy of giving,-that means love;Day of the joy of ...
The tide flows in to the harbour,- The bold tide, the gold tide, the flood o' the sunlit sea,-And the little ...
A tear that trembles for a little whileUpon the trembling eyelid, till the worldWavers within its circle like a dream,Holds ...
There is a bird I know so well, It seems as if he must have sung Beside my crib when I was ...
Oh, what do you know of the song, my dear, And how have you made it your own?You have caught the ...
How long is the night, brother, And how long is the day?Oh, the day's too short for a happy task, And the ...
. THE HOUSEThe cornerstone in Truth is laid,The guardian walls of Honour made,The roof of Faith is built above,The fire ...
O Lord our God, Thy mighty handHath made our country free;From all her broad and happy landMay praise arise to ...
THE HOUSEThe cornerstone in Truth is laid,The guardian walls of Honour made,The roof of Faith is built above,The fire upon ...
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