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 ...
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 ...
IBEDTIMEEre thou sleepest gently layEvery troubled thought away:Put off worry and distressAs thou puttest off thy dress:Drop thy burden and ...
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 ...
FAIR Roslin Chapel, how divineThe art that reared thy costly shrine!Thy carven columns must have grownBy magic, like a dream ...
Give us a name to fill the mind With the shining thoughts that lead mankind, The glory of learning, the ...
O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees,-- Nothing but ...
The land was broken in despair, The princes quarrelled in the dark, When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
Lord Jesus, Thou hast known A mother's love and tender care: And Thou wilt hear, while for my own Mother ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
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