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[3]
Dulciora[4]
Three Alpine Sonnets[6]
Matins[9]
The Parting and the Coming Guest[10]
If All the Skies[12]
Wings of a Dove[13]
The Fall of the Leaves[14]
A Snow-Song[16]
Roslin and Hawthornden[17]

SONGS OUT OF DOORS
LATER POEMS

When Tulips Bloom[21]
The Whip-Poor-Will[24]
The Lily of Yorrow[27]
The Veery[29]
The Song-Sparrow[31]
The Maryland Yellow-Throat[33]
A November Daisy[35]
The Angler's Reveille[37]
The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet[41]
School[45]
Indian Summer[46]
Spring in the North[47]
Spring in the South[51]
A Noon Song[53]
Light Between the Trees[55]
The Hermit Thrush[57]
Turn o' the Tide[58]
Sierra Madre[59]
The Grand Canyon[61]
The Heavenly Hills of Holland[67]
Flood-Tide of Flowers[69]
God of the Open Air[71]

NARRATIVE POEMS

The Toiling of Felix[81]
Vera[101]
Another Chance[120]
A Legend of Service[125]
The White Bees[129]
New Year's Eve[137]
The Vain King[142]
The Foolish Fir-Tree[147]
“Gran' Boule”[151]
Heroes of the “Titanic”[157]
The Standard-Bearer[158]
The Proud Lady[159]

LABOUR AND ROMANCE

A Mile with Me[165]
The Three Best Things[166]
Reliance[169]
Doors of Daring[170]
The Child in the Garden[171]
Love's Reason[172]
The Echo in the Heart[173]
“Undine”[174]
“Rencontre”[175]
Love in a Look[177]
My April Lady[178]
A Lover's Envy[179]
Fire-Fly City[180]
The Gentle Traveller[182]
Nepenthe[183]
Day and Night[185]
Hesper[186]
Arrival[187]
Departure[188]
The Black Birds[189]
Without Disguise[192]
An Hour[193]
“Rappelle-Toi”[194]
Love's Nearness[196]
Two Songs of Heine[197]
Eight Echoes from the Poems of Auguste Angellier[198]
Rappel d'Amour[209]
The River of Dreams[210]

HEARTH AND ALTAR

A Home Song[217]
“Little Boatie”[218]
A Mother's Birthday[220]
Transformation[222]
Rendezvous[223]
Gratitude[224]
Peace[225]
Santa Christina[226]
The Bargain[229]
To the Child Jesus[230]
Bitter-Sweet[231]
Hymn of Joy[232]
Song of a Pilgrim-Soul[234]
Ode to Peace[235]
Three Prayers for Sleep and Waking[239]
Portrait and Reality[242]
The Wind of Sorrow[243]
Hide and Seek[244]
Autumn in the Garden[246]
The Message[248]
Dulcis Memoria[249]
The Window[251]
Christmas Tears[253]
Dorothea, 1888-1912[255]

EPIGRAMS, GREETINGS, AND INSCRIPTIONS

For Katrina's Sun-Dial[259]
For Katrina's Window[260]
For the Friends at Hurstmont[261]
The Sun-Dial at Morven[263]
The Sun-Dial at Wells College[263]
To Mark Twain[264]
Stars and the Soul[266]
To Julia Marlowe[268]
To Joseph Jefferson[268]
The Mocking-Bird[269]
The Empty Quatrain[269]
Pan Learns Music[270]
The Shepherd of Nymphs[270]
Echoes from the Greek Anthology[271]
One World[274]
Joy and Duty[274]
The Prison and the Angel[275]
The Way[275]
Love and Light[276]
Facta non Verba[276]
Four Things[277]
The Great River[277]
Inscription for a Tomb in England[278]
The Talisman[279]
Thorn and Rose[280]
“The Signs”[281]

PRO PATRIA

Patria[287]
America[288]
The Ancestral Dwellings[289]
Hudson's Last Voyage[292]
Sea-Gulls of Manhattan[299]
A Ballad of Claremont Hill[301]
Urbs Coronata[304]
Mercy for Armenia[306]
Sicily, December, 1908[308]
“Come Back Again, Jeanne d'Arc”[309]
National Monuments[311]
The Monument of Francis Makemie[312]
The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens[313]
“America for Me”[314]
The Builders[316]
Spirit of the Everlasting Boy[330]
Texas[337]
Who Follow the Flag[352]
Stain not the Sky[362]
Peace-Hymn of the Republic[364]

THE RED FLOWER AND GOLDEN STARS

The Red Flower[369]
A Scrap of Paper[371]
Stand Fast[372]
Lights Out[374]
Remarks About Kings[376]
Might and Right[377]
The Price of Peace[377]
Storm-Music[378]
The Bells of Malines[381]
Jeanne d'Arc Returns[384]
The Name of France[385]
America's Prosperity[387]
The Glory of Ships[388]
Mare Liberum[391]
“Liberty Enlightening the World”[393]
The Oxford Thrushes[395]
Homeward Bound[397]
The Winds of War-News[399]
Righteous Wrath[400]
The Peaceful Warrior[401]
From Glory Unto Glory[402]
Britain, France, America[404]
The Red Cross[405]
Easter Road[406]
America's Welcome Home[408]
The Surrender of the German Fleet[410]
Golden Stars[412]
In the Blue Heaven[417]
A Shrine in the Pantheon[418]

IN PRAISE OF POETS

Mother Earth[421]
Milton[423]
Wordsworth[425]
Keats[426]
Shelley[427]
Robert Browning[428]
Tennyson[429]
“In Memoriam”[430]
Victor Hugo[431]
Longfellow[434]
Thomas Bailey Aldrich[437]
Edmund Clarence Stedman[439]
To James Whitcomb Riley[441]
Richard Watson Gilder[442]
The Valley of Vain Verses[443]

MUSIC

Music[447]
Master of Music[464]
The Pipes o' Pan[466]
To a Young Girl Singing[467]
The Old Flute[468]
The First Bird o' Spring[470]

THE HOUSE OF RIMMON
A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS

The House of Rimmon[473]
Dramatis Personæ[474]

APPENDIX
CARMINA FESTIVA

The Little-Neck Clam[551]
A Fairy Tale[555]
The Ballad of the Solemn Ass[558]
A Ballad of Santa Claus[562]
Ars Agricolaris[565]
Angler's Fireside Song[570]
How Spring Comes to Shasta Jim[571]
A Bunch of Trout-Flies[574]
Index of First Lines[577]

SONGS OUT OF DOORS
EARLY VERSES