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Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933 / Pennsylvania / United States)
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He graduated from Princeton University, 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1877 and served as a professor of English literature at Princet .. more >>
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1      A Child in the Garden
2      A Health to Mark Twain
3      A Home Song
4      A Legend of Service
5      A Lover's Envy
6      A Mile With Me
7      A Noon Song
8      A Prayer for a Mother's Birthday
9      A Rondeau of College Rhymes
10      A Scrap of Paper
11      America
12      America for Me
13      America's Prosperity
14      An American in Europe
15      Arrival
16      Autumn in the Garden
17      Christ of Everywhere
18      Departure
19      Doors of Daring
20      Dulcis Memoria
        
 

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Bill Klein (7/28/2005 4:19:00 PM)
To Tess A: We are reading this same poem at my father-in-law's memorial service. I was searching for info on Henry van Dyke and whether he actually wrote this poem. Here it is:

I am standing upon the sea shore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the
morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length she hangs
like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says; “There, she is gone! ” “Gone where? ” Gone from my sight.
That is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at that moment when someone at my side says, “There, she is gone! ”
There are other eyes watching her and other voices ready to take up the glad shout,
“Here she comes! ”
And that is dying.

Henry Van Dyke
Tess A (2/2/2005 2:09:00 PM)
am looking for a Henry Van Dyke. poem
and it startes with this

I am standing Upon the seashore...

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  Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it...
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933), U.S. poet. America for Me (l. 9-12). . . One Hundred and One Famous Poems. Roy J. Cook, comp. (Rev. ed., 1958) Reilly ...
 
  ''I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;
The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.''
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933), U.S. poet. America for Me (l. 17-18). . . One Hundred and One Famous Poems. Roy J. Cook, comp. (Rev. ed., 1958) Reilly...

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