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Henry Van Dyke's Poetry, by title

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  • 'Liberty Enlightening the World'
    Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,
    The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:
    23 lines
  • A Child in the Garden
    When to the garden of untroubled thought
    I came of late, and saw the open door,
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • A Health to Mark Twain
    At his Birthday Feast
    With memories old and wishes new
    15 lines
  • A Home Song
    I read within a poet's book
    A word that starred the page:
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • A Legend of Service
    It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!)
    To hear, one day, report from those who came
    104 lines
  • A Lover's Envy
    I envy every flower that blows
    Along the meadow where she goes,
    20 lines
  • A Mile With Me
    O who will walk a mile with me
    Along life's merry way?
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • A Noon Song
    There are songs for the morning and songs for the night,
    For sunrise and sunset, the stars and the moon;
    32 lines
  • A Prayer for a Mother's Birthday
    Lord Jesus, Thou hast known
    A mother's love and tender care:
    24 lines
  • A Rondeau of College Rhymes
    Our college rhymes,--how light they seem,
    Like little ghosts of love's young dream
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • A Scrap of Paper
    "Will you go to war just for a scrap of paper?" -- Question
    of the German Chancellor to the British Ambassador,
    17 lines
  • A Wayfaring Song
    0 who will walk a mile with me
    Along life's merry way?
    19 lines
  • Ameria's Welcome Home
    Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue,
    America's crusading host of warriors bold and true;
    24 lines
  • America
    I love thine inland seas,
    Thy groves of giant trees,
    17 lines
  • America for Me
    'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down
    Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • America's Prosperity
    They tell me thou art rich, my country: gold
    In glittering flood has poured into thy chest;
    14 lines
  • An American in Europe
    'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down
    Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,
    24 lines
  • An Angler’s Wish
    WHEN tulips bloom in Union Square,
    And timid breaths of vernal air
    65 lines
  • Arrival
    Across a thousand miles of sea, a hundred leagues of land,
    Along a path I had not traced and could not understand,
    12 lines
  • Autumn in the Garden
    When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark
    Makes its mark
    40 lines
  • Christ of Everywhere
    "Christ of the Andes," Christ of Everywhere,
    Great lover of the hills, the open air,
    8 lines
  • Departure
    Oh, why are you shining so bright, big Sun,
    And why is the garden so gay?
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Doors of Daring
    The mountains that enfold the vale
    With walls of granite, steep and high,
    16 lines
  • Dulcis Memoria
    Long, long ago I heard a little song,
    (Ah, was it long ago, or yesterday?)
    28 lines
  • Echoes From the Greek Mythology
    I - STARLIGHT
    With two bright eyes, my star, my love,
    43 lines
  • Edmund Clarence Stedman
    Oh, quick to feel the lightest touch
    Of beauty or of truth,
    16 lines
  • Fire-Fly City
    Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting,
    Bearing me far away, after a perfect day of love's delight:
    24 lines
  • Flood-Tide of Flowers
    IN HOLLAND
    The laggard winter ebbed so slow
    31 lines, 1 comment
  • Four Things
    Four things a man must learn to do
    If he would make his record true:
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Francis Makemie
    (Presbyter of Christ in Americas 1683-1708)
    To thee, plain hero of a rugged race,
    15 lines, 1 comment
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