The Poems of Henry Van Dyke

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 Personæ
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
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