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American

Henry van Dyke

1852–1933

Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) was an American clergyman, professor and poet, born at Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was a Presbyterian minister in New York, a professor of English literature at Princeton, and United States minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg from 1913 to 1916.

He wrote many volumes of verse and essays, and the story The Other Wise Man (1895). His nature lyrics on American birds were among his most anthologised poems.

Poems (186)

  1. The Maryland Yellow-throat
  2. The Whip-poor-will
  3. The Veery
  4. The After-Echo
  5. Dulciora
  6. Three Alpine Sonnets
  7. Matins
  8. The Parting and the Coming Guest
  9. If All the Skies
  10. Wings of a Dove
  11. The Fall of the Leaves
  12. A Snow-Song
  13. Roslin and Hawthornden
  14. When Tulips Bloom
  15. The Lily of Yorrow
  16. The Song-Sparrow
  17. A November Daisy
  18. The Angler's Reveille
  19. The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
  20. School
  21. Indian Summer
  22. Spring in the North
  23. Spring in the South
  24. A Noon Song
  25. Light Between the Trees
  26. The Hermit Thrush
  27. Turn o' the Tide
  28. Sierra Madre
  29. The Grand Canyon
  30. The Heavenly Hills of Holland
  31. Flood-Tide of Flowers
  32. God of the Open Air
  33. The Toiling of Felix
  34. Vera
  35. Another Chance
  36. A Legend of Service
  37. The White Bees
  38. New Year's Eve
  39. The Vain King
  40. The Foolish Fir-Tree
  41. "Gran' Boule"
  42. Heroes of the "Titanic"
  43. The Standard-Bearer
  44. The Proud Lady
  45. A Mile with Me
  46. The Three Best Things
  47. Reliance
  48. Doors of Daring
  49. The Child in the Garden
  50. Love's Reason
  51. The Echo in the Heart
  52. "Undine"
  53. "Rencontre"
  54. Love in a Look
  55. My April Lady
  56. A Lover's Envy
  57. Fire-Fly City
  58. The Gentle Traveller
  59. Nepenthe
  60. Day and Night
  61. Hesper
  62. Arrival
  63. Departure
  64. The Black Birds
  65. Without Disguise
  66. An Hour
  67. Rappel d'Amour
  68. The River of Dreams
  69. A Home Song
  70. "Little Boatie"
  71. A Mother's Birthday
  72. Transformation
  73. Rendezvous
  74. Gratitude
  75. Peace
  76. Santa Christina
  77. The Bargain
  78. To the Child Jesus
  79. Bitter-Sweet
  80. Hymn of Joy
  81. Song of a Pilgrim-Soul
  82. Ode to Peace
  83. Three Prayers for Sleep and Waking
  84. Portrait and Reality
  85. The Wind of Sorrow
  86. Hide and Seek
  87. Autumn in the Garden
  88. The Message
  89. Dulcis Memoria
  90. The Window
  91. Christmas Tears
  92. Dorothea, 1888-1912
  93. For Katrina's Sun-Dial
  94. For Katrina's Window
  95. For the Friends at Hurstmont
  96. The Sun-Dial at Morven
  97. The Sun-Dial at Wells College
  98. To Mark Twain
  99. Stars and the Soul
  100. To Julia Marlowe
  101. To Joseph Jefferson
  102. The Mocking-Bird
  103. The Empty Quatrain
  104. Pan Learns Music
  105. The Shepherd of Nymphs
  106. One World
  107. Joy and Duty
  108. The Prison and the Angel
  109. The Way
  110. Love and Light
  111. Facta non Verba
  112. Four Things
  113. The Great River
  114. Inscription for a Tomb in England
  115. The Talisman
  116. Thorn and Rose
  117. "The Signs"
  118. Patria
  119. America
  120. The Ancestral Dwellings
  121. Hudson's Last Voyage
  122. Sea-Gulls of Manhattan
  123. A Ballad of Claremont Hill
  124. Urbs Coronata
  125. Mercy for Armenia
  126. Sicily, December, 1908
  127. "Come Back Again, Jeanne d'Arc"
  128. National Monuments
  129. The Monument of Francis Makemie
  130. The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
  131. "America for Me"
  132. The Builders
  133. Spirit of the Everlasting Boy
  134. Texas
  135. Who Follow the Flag
  136. Stain not the Sky
  137. Peace-Hymn of the Republic
  138. The Red Flower
  139. A Scrap of Paper
  140. Stand Fast
  141. Lights Out
  142. Remarks About Kings
  143. Might and Right
  144. The Price of Peace
  145. Storm-Music
  146. The Bells of Malines
  147. Jeanne d'Arc Returns
  148. The Name of France
  149. America's Prosperity
  150. The Glory of Ships
  151. Mare Liberum
  152. "Liberty Enlightening the World"
  153. The Oxford Thrushes
  154. Homeward Bound
  155. The Winds of War-News
  156. Righteous Wrath
  157. The Peaceful Warrior
  158. From Glory Unto Glory
  159. Britain, France, America
  160. The Red Cross
  161. Easter Road
  162. America's Welcome Home
  163. The Surrender of the German Fleet
  164. Golden Stars
  165. In the Blue Heaven
  166. A Shrine in the Pantheon
  167. Mother Earth
  168. Milton
  169. Wordsworth
  170. Keats
  171. Shelley
  172. Robert Browning
  173. Tennyson
  174. "In Memoriam"
  175. Victor Hugo
  176. Longfellow
  177. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  178. Edmund Clarence Stedman
  179. To James Whitcomb Riley
  180. Richard Watson Gilder
  181. The Valley of Vain Verses
  182. Music
  183. Master of Music
  184. The Pipes o' Pan
  185. To a Young Girl Singing
  186. The First Bird o' Spring

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