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Henry Van Dyke's Poetry, by popularity

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  • Roslin and Hawthornden
    FAIR Roslin Chapel, how divine
    The art that reared thy costly shrine!
    18 lines
  • Tennyson: In Lucem Transitus, October, 1892
    FROM the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendors of the moon,
    To the singing tides of heaven, and the light more clear tha
    10 lines
  • The Lily of Yorrow
    DEEP in the heart of the forest the lily of Yorrow is growing;
    Blue is its cup as the sky, and with mystical odor o’erflowing;
    30 lines
  • An Angler’s Wish
    WHEN tulips bloom in Union Square,
    And timid breaths of vernal air
    65 lines
  • The Veery
    THE MOONBEAMS over Arno’s vale in silver flood were pouring, 
    When first I heard the nightingale a long-lost love deploring.&n
    19 lines
  • Sea-Gulls of Manhattan
    Children of the elemental mother,
    Born upon some lonely island shore
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Remarks About Kings
    "God said I am tired of kings." -- EMERSON
    God said, "I am tired of kings,"--
    17 lines
  • Urbs Coronata
    (Song for the City College of New York)
    O youngest of the giant brood
    26 lines
  • The Vain King
    In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest,
    A jewelled collar shone upon his breast,
    127 lines
  • The Hermit Thrush
    O wonderful! How liquid clear
    The molten gold of that ethereal tone,
    20 lines
  • The Heavenly Hills of Holland
    The heavenly hills of Holland,--
    How wondrously they rise
    32 lines
  • Wordsworth
    Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls
    Among the mountains, and thy song is fed
    14 lines
  • The White Bees
    I
    LEGEND
    193 lines
  • The Bells of Malines
    AUGUST 17, 1914
    The gabled roofs of old Malines
    61 lines
  • War-Music
    Break off! Dance no more!
    Danger is at the door.
    67 lines
  • Jeanne d'Arc Returns
    1914-1916
    What hast thou done, O womanhood of France,
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Undine
    'T was far away and long ago,
    When I was but a dreaming boy,
    8 lines
  • To Julia Marlowe
    Long had I loved this \
    4 lines
  • Nepenthe
    Yes, it was like you to forget,
    And cancel in the welcome of your smile
    49 lines
  • National Monuments
    Count not the cost of honour to the dead!
    The tribute that a mighty nation pays
    14 lines
  • A Wayfaring Song
    0 who will walk a mile with me
    Along life's merry way?
    19 lines
  • Mare Liberum
    You dare to say with perjured lips,
    "We fight to make the ocean free"?
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • The Window
    All night long, by a distant bell,
    The passing hours were notched
    26 lines
  • Milton
    I
    Lover of beauty, walking on the height
    45 lines
  • The Song Sparrow
    There is a bird I know so well,
    It seems as if he must have sung
    27 lines
  • Lights Out
    "Lights out" along the land,
    "Lights out" upon the sea.
    24 lines
  • Sicily, December 1908
    O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, --
    Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays,
    14 lines
  • Late Spring
    I
    Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days,
    84 lines
  • Keats
    The melancholy gift Aurora gained
    From Jove, that her sad lover should not see
    14 lines
  • Storm-Music
    O Music hast thou only heard
    The laughing river, the singing bird,
    66 lines
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