An Hour (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
You only promised me a single hour: But in that hour I journeyed through a year Of life: the joy of finding ...
You only promised me a single hour: But in that hour I journeyed through a year Of life: the joy of finding ...
There are many kinds of anger, as many kinds of fire;And some are fierce and fatal with murderous desire;And some ...
When to the garden of untroubled thought I came of late, and saw the open door, And wished again to enter, and ...
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 ...
Mine enemies have prevailed against me, O God:Thou hast led me deep into their ambush.They surround me with a hedge ...
I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair And dewy feet, along the Alpine dells, To lead the cattle forth. A ...
What shall I give for thee, Thou Pearl of greatest price?For all the treasures I possess Would not suffice.I give my store ...
ITHE NATIVITYCould every time-worn heart but see Thee once again,A happy human child, among the homes of men,The age of ...
At dawn in silence moves the mighty stream, The silver-crested waves no murmur make; But far away the avalanches wakeThe rumbling echoes, ...
Just to give up, and trust All to a Fate unknown, Plodding along life's road in the dust, Bounded by walls of stone;Never ...
Come home, my love, come home! The twilight is falling, The whippoorwill calling, The night is very near, And the darkness full of fear,Come ...
FROM the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendors of the moon,To the singing tides of heaven, and the light ...
IN HER GARDEN OF YADDO Hours fly, Flowers die New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays.________________________________________ Time isToo Slow for those who Wait,Too Swift for those ...
IN HER TOWER OF YADDOThis is the window's message, In silence, to the Queen:"Thou hast a double kingdom And I am set ...
The winds of war-news change and veer:Now westerly and full of cheer,Now easterly, depressing, sourWith tidings of the Teutons' power.But ...
I put my heart to schoolIn the world where men grow wise:"Go out," I said, "and learn the rule;'Come back ...
I"EIN FICHTENBAUM"A fir-tree standeth lonelyOn a barren northern height,Asleep, while winter coversHis rest with robes of white.In dreams, he sees ...
March on, my soul, nor like a laggard stay!March swiftly on. Yet err not from the wayWhere all the nobly ...
The grief that is but feigning,And weeps melodious tearsOf delicate complainingFrom self-indulgent years;The mirth that is but madness,And has no ...
The record of a faith sublime, And hope, through clouds, far-off discerned; The incense of a love that burnedThrough pain and doubt ...
Honour the brave who sleep Where the lost "Titanic" lies,The men who knew what a man must do When he looks Death ...
1888-1912A deeper crimson in the rose,A deeper blue in sky and sea,And ever, as the summer goes,A deeper loss in ...
Sign of the Love Divine That bends to bear the loadOf all who suffer, all who bleed, Along life's thorny road:Sign of ...
The nymphs a shepherd took To guard their snowy sheep;He led them down along the brook,And guided them with pipe and ...
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 ...
The rough expanse of democratic seaWhich parts the lands that live by libertyIs no division; for their hearts are one.To ...
Far richer than a thornless roseWhose branch with beauty never glows,Is that which every June adornsWith perfect bloom among its ...
Read here, O friend unknown, Our grief, of her bereft;Yet think not tears alone Within our hearts are left.The gifts she came ...
Flowers rejoice when night is done,Lift their heads to greet the sun;Sweetest looks and odours raise,In a silent hymn of ...
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