Carmina Festiva (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
THE LITTLE-NECK CLAMA modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted ...
THE LITTLE-NECK CLAMA modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted ...
Here, in this other world, they come and go With easy dream-like movements to and fro. They stare through lovely eyes, yet ...
"I KNOW where I'd getAn ass that would do,If I had the moneyA pound or two."Said a ragged manTo my ...
Beneath the surface of a shallow lake, Where grasses rank and mammoth rushes grow,And playful fish their bright fins nimbly shake, Or ...
IF I shall ever win the home in heavenFor whose sweet rest I humbly hope and pray,In the great company ...
By the sad fellowship of human suffering, By the bereavements that are thine and mine,I venture--oh, forgive me!--with this offering, I would ...
How bland and sweet the greeting of this breezeTo him who fliesFrom crowded street and red wall's weary gleam,Till far ...
There moves a sad processionAcross the silent vale,With backward-glancing eyes of grief,And tearful cheeks all pale.Scatter'd and slow, without array,With ...
It is well that beauteous woman Has the quickest sense of wrong;That the tenderest traits of feeling To her faithful heart belong;That ...
WELCOME home again, brave seaman! with thy thoughtful brow and gray,And the old heroic spirit of our earlier, better day;With ...
So that's what you call good news for me,Young Janet who loves me so?For your poor blind grandmother sitting hereWhile ...
I ran into an old time sailor, up on Market Street;We had a cup of coffee, his last name was ...
Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exile, Step in your foot, come take a place, and mourn with me ...
ALONE he sat. His broad and lofty browWas bent upon his thin, pale hand; his locksOf jet hung o'er it ...
I saw her first abreast the Boston Light At anchor; she had just come in, turned head, And sent her hawsers creaking, ...
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den (the ...
O well is thee! King Numa,Within thy secret cave,Where thy bones are ever moistenedBy sad Egeria's wave;None now have power ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)The Indian Chieftain is far away,Through the forest his footsteps fly,But his heart is behind him ...
THIS is your month, the month of "perfect days,"Birds in full song and blossoms all ablaze.Nature herself your earliest welcome ...
Poor Monsieur d'Alveron! I well rememberThe day I visited his ruinous cot,And heard the story of his fallen fortunes.It was ...
Four years!--and didst thou stay aboveThe ground, which hides thee now, but four?And all that life, and all that love,Were ...
"DEAR Charlie," breathed a soldier, "O comrade true and tried,Who in the heat of battle Pressed closely to my side;I feel that ...
There was a king of Yvetot, Of whom renown hath little said, Who let all thoughts of glory go, And dawdled half his ...
Well I recall my Father's wife,The day he brought her home.His children looked for years of strife,And troubles sure to ...
WE follow where the Swamp Fox guides,His friends and merry men are we;And when the troop of Tarleton rides,We burrow ...
Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian,Prince of men! what tears run downthe cheeks of age? what shades thymighty soul?Memory, son ...
Written on Board the Medway, in the South Seas, in Very StormyWeather."WHERE is the God whom I adore?"Abram of old ...
Yes, I know I am a stranger,But when you came in that door,I just felt that I could trust you,Though ...
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
Air — "Perhaps" Some enterprising people, In our cities and towns,Have gone to organizing clubs Of men that's fallen down;In estimation fallen low ...
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