The Poems of Henry Van Dyke

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Title: The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Release Date: July 7, 2005 [EBook #16229]
Language: English
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BY HENRY VAN DYKE
Six Days of the Week
Little Rivers?Fisherman's Luck?Days Off?Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land
The Ruling Passion?The Blue Flower?The Unknown Quantity?The Valley of Vision
Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts?Companionable Books
Poems, Collection in one volume
Songs out of Doors?Golden Stars?The Red Flower?The Grand Canyon, and Other Poems?The White Bees, and Other Poems?The Builders, and Other Poems?Music, and Other Poems?The Toiling of Felix, and Other Poems?The House of Rimmon
Studies in Tennyson?Poems of Tennyson?Fighting for Peace
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
THE POEMS OF
HENRY VAN DYKE
A NEW AND REVISED EDITION?WITH MANY HITHERTO UNCOLLECTED
LONDON ARTHUR F. BIRD MCMXXV
[From an edition:]?Printed by The Scribner Press,?New York, U.S.A.
Dedicated in Friendship to
KATRINA TRASK
AND
JOHN HUSTON FINLEY
CONTENTS
SONGS OUT OF DOORS
EARLY VERSES
The After-Echo?Dulciora?Three Alpine Sonnets?Matins?The Parting and the Coming Guest?If All the Skies?Wings of a Dove?The Fall of the Leaves?A Snow-Song?Roslin and Hawthornden
SONGS OUT OF DOORS
LATER POEMS
When Tulips Bloom?The Whip-Poor-Will?The Lily of Yorrow?The Veery?The Song-Sparrow?The Maryland Yellow-Throat?A November Daisy?The Angler's Reveille?The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet?School?Indian Summer?Spring in the North?Spring in the South?A Noon Song?Light Between the Trees?The Hermit Thrush?Turn o' the Tide?Sierra Madre?The Grand Canyon?The Heavenly Hills of Holland?Flood-Tide of Flowers?God of the Open Air
NARRATIVE POEMS
The Toiling of Felix?Vera?Another Chance?A Legend of Service?The White Bees?New Year's Eve?The Vain King?The Foolish Fir-Tree?"Gran' Boule"?Heroes of the "Titanic"?The Standard-Bearer?The Proud Lady
LABOUR AND ROMANCE
A Mile with Me?The Three Best Things?Reliance?Doors of Daring?The Child in the Garden?Love's Reason?The Echo in the Heart?"Undine"?"Rencontre"?Love in a Look?My April Lady?A Lover's Envy?Fire-Fly City?The Gentle Traveller?Nepenthe?Day and Night?Hesper?Arrival?Departure?The Black Birds?Without Disguise?An Hour?"Rappelle-Toi"?Love's Nearness?Two Songs of Heine?Eight Echoes from the Poems of Auguste Angellier?Rappel d'Amour?The River of Dreams
HEARTH AND ALTAR
A Home Song?"Little Boatie"?A Mother's Birthday?Transformation?Rendezvous?Gratitude?Peace?Santa Christina?The Bargain?To the Child Jesus?Bitter-Sweet?Hymn of Joy?Song of a Pilgrim-Soul?Ode to Peace?Three Prayers for Sleep and Waking?Portrait and Reality?The Wind of Sorrow?Hide and Seek?Autumn in the Garden?The Message?Dulcis Memoria?The Window?Christmas Tears?Dorothea, 1888-1912
EPIGRAMS, GREETINGS, AND INSCRIPTIONS
For Katrina's Sun-Dial?For Katrina's Window?For the Friends at Hurstmont?The Sun-Dial at Morven?The Sun-Dial at Wells College?To Mark Twain?Stars and the Soul?To Julia Marlowe?To Joseph Jefferson?The Mocking-Bird?The Empty Quatrain?Pan Learns Music?The Shepherd of Nymphs?Echoes from the Greek Anthology?One World?Joy and Duty?The Prison and the Angel?The Way?Love and Light?Facta non Verba?Four Things?The Great River?Inscription for a Tomb in England?The Talisman?Thorn and Rose?"The Signs"
PRO PATRIA
Patria?America?The Ancestral Dwellings?Hudson's Last Voyage?Sea-Gulls of Manhattan?A Ballad of Claremont Hill?Urbs Coronata?Mercy for Armenia?Sicily, December, 1908?"Come Back Again, Jeanne d'Arc"?National Monuments?The Monument of Francis Makemie?The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens?"America for Me"?The Builders?Spirit of the Everlasting Boy?Texas?Who Follow the Flag?Stain not the Sky?Peace-Hymn of the Republic
THE RED FLOWER AND GOLDEN STARS
The Red Flower?A Scrap of Paper?Stand Fast?Lights Out?Remarks About Kings?Might and Right?The Price of Peace?Storm-Music?The Bells of Malines?Jeanne d'Arc Returns?The Name of France?America's Prosperity?The Glory of Ships?Mare Liberum?"Liberty Enlightening the World"?The Oxford Thrushes?Homeward Bound?The Winds of War-News?Righteous Wrath?The Peaceful Warrior?From Glory Unto Glory?Britain, France, America?The Red Cross?Easter Road?America's Welcome Home?The Surrender of the German Fleet?Golden Stars?In the Blue Heaven?A Shrine in the Pantheon
IN PRAISE OF POETS
Mother Earth?Milton?Wordsworth?Keats?Shelley?Robert Browning?Tennyson?"In Memoriam"?Victor Hugo?Longfellow?Thomas Bailey Aldrich?Edmund Clarence Stedman?To James Whitcomb Riley?Richard Watson Gilder?The Valley of Vain Verses
MUSIC
Music?Master of Music?The Pipes o' Pan?To a Young Girl Singing?The Old Flute?The First Bird o' Spring
THE HOUSE OF RIMMON
A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS
The House of Rimmon?Dramatis Person?
APPENDIX
CARMINA FESTIVA
The Little-Neck Clam?A Fairy Tale?The Ballad of the Solemn Ass?A Ballad of Santa Claus?Ars Agricolaris?Angler's Fireside Song?How Spring Comes to Shasta Jim?A Bunch of Trout-Flies
Index of First Lines
SONGS OUT OF DOORS
EARLY VERSES
THE AFTER-ECHO
How long the echoes love to play?Around the shore of silence, as a wave?Retreating circles down the sand!?One after one, with sweet delay,?The mellow sounds that cliff and island gave,?Have lingered in the crescent bay,?Until, by lightest breezes fanned,?They float far off beyond the dying day
And leave it still as death.?But hark,--?Another singing breath?Comes from the edge of dark;?A note as clear and slow?As falls from some enchanted bell,?Or spirit, passing from the world below,?That whispers back, Farewell.
So in the heart,?When, fading slowly down the past,?Fond memories depart,?And each that leaves it seems the last;?Long after all the rest are flown,?Returns a solitary tone,--?The after-echo of departed years,--?And touches all the soul to tears.
1871.
DULCIORA
A tear that trembles for a little while?Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world?Wavers within its circle like a dream,?Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb?Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.
A smile that hovers round a mouth beloved,?Like the faint pulsing