Mercy For Armenia (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
ITHE TURK'S WAYStand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Far off, for I will save my troubled folk In my own way. ...
ITHE TURK'S WAYStand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Far off, for I will save my troubled folk In my own way. ...
My native home why did I roamFrom thy dear sheltering bowers?Where birds and bees sang mid the trees,Through the long summer ...
Imagine the South from which these migrants fled,Dark-eyed, pursued by arrows, crowned with blood,Imagine the stiff stone houses and the ...
Therefore, proud Italy, I, by God's grace,After six years come back to gaze on thee,This only, for barbarians fill the ...
Chorus:For the Motherland in war,For the Motherland in peace,Will the Filipino keep watch,He will live until life will cease!MEN:Now the ...
Bred in distant woods, the clownBrings all his country airs to town;The odd address, with awkward grace,That bows with half-averted ...
THEY made them ready and we saw them goOut of our very lives;Yet this world holds them all,And soon it ...
Hey dragged up my holly and I pull it to a town for the bigtimeHey rig down the road I ...
O dear my Country, beautiful and dear,Love cloth not darken sight.God looketh through Love's eyes, whose vision clearBeholds more flaws ...
He lies on his back, the idling smith, A lazy, dreaming fellow is he;The sky is blue, or the sky is ...
This seablue fir that rode the mountain stormIs swaddled here in splints of tin to die.Sofas around in chubby velvet ...
Why is it Alaskans all come back When they've quit this land for good?Why is it that no man stays away When ...
There is a land, of every land the pride,Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside;Where brighter suns dispense serener ...
It was a sad, ay 'twas a sad farewell,I still afresh the pangs of parting feel;Against my breast my heart ...
This is a wild land, country of my choice,With harsh craggy mountain, moor ample and bare.Seldom in these acres is ...
There is a land where rivers flowThrough humming forests merrilyAnd babble gaily as they goWhile tuneful skylarks sing in glee.There ...
Plutus. Would you silence a Patriot committee, Touch their lips with this magical Wand; Through country, and senate, and city, 'Tis the lock and ...
Farewell, sweetest country; out of my heart, you roses,Wayside roses, nodding, the slow traveller to keep.Too long have I drowsed ...
You think yourselves the adventurous ones, you young ones,And us becalmed, torpid, our days uneventful,Our blood stagnant, our minds' antennae ...
The girls all like to see the bluets in the laneAnd the saucy johnny-jump-ups in the meadow,But, we boys, we ...
THE day's sharp strife is ended now,Our work is done, God knoweth how!As on the thronged, unrestful townThe patience of ...
At the time of the rebellion Between the north and south,Many a noble volunteer Kent county did send out.Among them was Chyler ...
The Winner of the Queen's Prize at Rifle Shooting, Wimbledon, 1866."When wine and other liquors were pressed upon him after ...
The teasel and the horsemint spreadThe hillside as with sunset, sownWith blossoms, o'er the Standing-StoneThat ripples in its rocky bed:There ...
IDost thou not know God's country, where it lies?That land long dreamed of, more desired than gold,Which noble souls, by ...
Thespis, the first professor of our art,At country wakes, sung ballads from a cart.To prove this true, if Latin be ...
Old Father Abe has issued his "Call"For Three Hundred Thousand more!By Jupiter, boys, he is after you all--Lamed and ...
OR,A DESCRIPTION OF A CAMPIN THE YEAR 1800.TENTS, marquees , and baggage-waggons;Suttling houses; beer in flaggons;Drams and trumpets; singing, firing;Girls ...
A PLENTEOUS place is Ireland for hospitable cheer, Uileacan dubh O!Where the wholesome fruit is bursting from the yellow barley ear; Uileacan ...
Singing and shouting they swept to the treacherous forestDarkness and silence received them and smother their painDarkness and silence and ...
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