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 ...
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
The river of dreams runs quietly down From its hidden home in the forest of sleep, With a measureless motion calm and ...
Recited at the Century Club, New York: Twelfth Night. 1906Come all ye good Centurions and wise men of the times,You've ...
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 ...
While May bedecks the naked trees With tassels and embroideries, And many blue-eyed violets beam Along the edges of the stream, I hear a ...
Ship after ship, and every one with a high-resounding name,From the robber-nest of Heligoland the German war-fleet came;Not victory or ...
ITHE TURK'S WAYStand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Far off, for I will save my troubled folk In my own way. ...
There is a bird I know so well, It seems as if he must have sung Beside my crib when I was ...
The lizard rested on the rock while I sat among the ruins,And the pride of man was like a vision ...
FOR THE UNNAMED SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN FRANCEUniversal approval has been accorded the proposal made in the French Chamber that ...
IN MEMORIAMSoul of a soldier in a poet's frame, Heart of a hero in a body frail; Thine was the courage clear ...
I put my heart to schoolIn the world where men grow wise:"Go out," I said, "and learn the rule;'Come back ...
What is Fortune, what is Fame?Futile gold and phantom name,-Riches buried in a cave,Glory written on a grave.What is Friendship? ...
"Joy is a Duty,"-so with golden loreThe Hebrew rabbis taught in days of yore,And happy human hearts heard in their ...
I put my heart to school In the world, where men grow wise, "Go out," I said, "and learn the ...
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 ...
When down the stair at morning The sunbeams round her float, Sweet rivulets of laughter Are bubbling in her throat; ...
Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting, Bearing me far away, after a perfect day of ...
"Will you go to war just for a scrap of paper?" -- Question of the German Chancellor to the British ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
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