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American Literature – Children Books – American Poetry – Henry Van Dyke – Poems by Henry Van Dyke
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In Praise of Poets
Mother Earth
Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed,
Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the glory of the field, … Continue Reading …
Milton
Lover of beauty, walking on the height
Of pure philosophy and tranquil song;
Born to behold the visions that belong … Continue Reading …
Wordsworth
Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls
Among the mountains, and thy song is fed
By living springs far up the watershed; … Continue Reading …
Keats
The melancholy gift Aurora gained
From Jove, that her sad lover should not see
The face of death, no goddess asked for thee, … Continue Reading …
Shelley
Knight-errant of the Never-ending Quest,
And Minstrel of the Unfulfilled Desire;
For ever tuning thy frail earthly lyre … Continue Reading …
Robert Browning
How blind the toil that burrows like the mole,
In winding graveyard pathways underground,
For Browning’s lineage! What if men have found … Continue Reading …
Tennyson
From the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendours of the moon,
To the singing tides of heaven, and the light more clear than noon, … Continue Reading …
“In Memoriam”
The record of a faith sublime,
And hope, through clouds, far-off discerned;
The incense of a love that burned … Continue Reading …
Victor Hugo
Heart of France for a hundred years,
Passionate, sensitive, proud, and strong,
Quick to throb with her hopes and fears, … Continue Reading …
Longfellow
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion,
Where there were many running to and fro, and shouting, and striving together, … Continue Reading …
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Dear Aldrich, now November’s mellow days
Have brought another Festa round to you,
You can’t refuse a loving-cup of praise … Continue Reading …
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Oh, quick to feel the lightest touch
Of beauty or of truth,
Rich in the thoughtfulness of age, … Continue Reading …
To James Whitcomb Riley
Yours is a garden of old-fashioned flowers;
Joyous children delight to play there;
Weary men find rest in its bowers, … Continue Reading …
Richard Watson Gilder
Soul of a soldier in a poet’s frame,
Heart of a hero in a body frail;
Thine was the courage clear that did not quail … Continue Reading …
The Valley of Vain Verses
The grief that is but feigning,
And weeps melodious tears
Of delicate complaining … Continue Reading …
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American Literature – Children Books – American Poetry – Henry Van Dyke – Poems by Henry Van Dyke
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