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Title: Music and Other Poems

Author: Henry van Dyke

Release Date: November, 2002 [Etext #3525]
Posting Date: October 13, 2009

Language: English

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MUSIC AND OTHER POEMS

By Henry van Dyke

To my son Tertius this book is dedicated

Transcribed from the book published October, 1904

by Charles Scribner's Sons.

CONTENTS

ODES
Music
Peace
Victor Hugo
God of the Open Air

SONNETS
Work
Life
Love
The Child in the Garden
Love's Reason
Portrait and Reality
The Wind of Sorrow
Patria

LEGENDS
A Legend of Service
The Vain King

LYRICS
A Mile with Me
Spring in the South
Love's Nearness
Two Schools
A Prayer for a Mother's Birthday
Indian Summer
One World
Hide and Seek
Dulcis Memoria
Autumn in the Garden
The Message
Light Between the Trees
Reliance

GREETINGS AND INSCRIPTIONS
Katrina's Sun-dial
To James Whitcomb Riley
A Health to Mark Twain
A Rondeau of College Rhymes
The Mocking-bird
The Empty Quatrain
Inscriptions for a Friend's House
The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
The Sun-dial at Wells College

ODES

MUSIC

I. PRELUDE

Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night
When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight,
She knew her Love and saw her Lord depart,
Then breathed her wonder and her woe forlorn
Into a single cry, and thou wast born?
Thou flower of rapture and thou fruit of grief;
Invisible enchantress of the heart;
Mistress of charms that bring relief
To sorrow, and to joy impart
A heavenly tone that keeps it undefiled,--
Thou art the child
Of Amor, and by right divine
A throne of love is thine,
Thou flower-folded, golden-girdled, star-crowned Queen,
Whose bridal beauty mortal eyes have never seen!

II

Thou art the Angel