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 ...
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
For the Mark Twain Dinner, December 5, 1905 Some three-score years and ten ago A prince was born at Florida, Mo.; And though ...
IWHEN tulips bloom in Union Square,And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town,Like children lost in Vanity ...
AMERICAN FLAG SONG1776O dark the night and dim the day When first our flag arose;It fluttered bravely in the fray To meet ...
Afterthought of summer's bloom!Late arrival at the feast,Coming when the songs have ceasedAnd the merry guests departed,Leaving but an empty ...
There is a bird I know so well, It seems as if he must have sung Beside my crib when I was ...
O Lord our God, Thy mighty handHath made our country free;From all her broad and happy landMay praise arise to ...
March on, my soul, nor like a laggard stay!March swiftly on. Yet err not from the wayWhere all the nobly ...
I When tulips bloom in Union Aquare, And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town, Like ...
Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls Among the mountains, and thy song is fed By living springs far up ...
(Song for the City College of New York) O youngest of the giant brood Of cities far-renowned; In wealth and ...
Heart of France for a hundred years, Passionate, sensitive, proud, and strong, Quick to throb with her hopes and fears, ...
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Count not the cost of honour to the dead! The tribute that a mighty nation pays To those who loved ...
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many ...
The melancholy gift Aurora gained From Jove, that her sad lover should not see The face of death, no goddess ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
Oh, quick to feel the lightest touch Of beauty or of truth, Rich in the thoughtfulness of age, The hopefulness ...
'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
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