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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recited at the Century Club, New York: Twelfth Night. 1906Come all ye good Centurions and wise men of the times,You've ...
For the Mark Twain Dinner, December 5, 1905 Some three-score years and ten ago A prince was born at Florida, Mo.; And though ...
Yes, it was like you to forget,And cancel in the welcome of your smileMy deep arrears of debt,And with the ...
A tear that trembles for a little whileUpon the trembling eyelid, till the worldWavers within its circle like a dream,Holds ...
The lizard rested on the rock while I sat among the ruins,And the pride of man was like a vision ...
I count that friendship little worth Which has not many things untold, Great longings that no words can hold,And passion-secrets waiting birth.Along ...
(Song for the City College of New York) O youngest of the giant brood Of cities far-renowned; In wealth and ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
When Stiivoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With ...
Give us a name to fill the mind With the shining thoughts that lead mankind, The glory of learning, the ...
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
The glory of ships is an old, old song, since the days when the sea-rovers ran In their open boats ...
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
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 Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
You dare to say with perjured lips, "We fight to make the ocean free"? You, whose black trail of butchered ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, All the flocks of fleecy clouds have wandered past the ...
Oh, quick to feel the lightest touch Of beauty or of truth, Rich in the thoughtfulness of age, The hopefulness ...
When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark Makes its mark On the flowers, and the misty morning grieves ...
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