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Henry Van Dyke
(1852 - 1933)

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Henry Jackson Van Dyke was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, to Henrietta Ashmead and Henry Jackson Van Dyke, a respected Presbyterian clergyman. The son was influenced by his father's role as minister, though the boy was not necessarily a model child. As his father said of his two sons, "Paul was b .. .. 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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"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 comes to living, there is no place like home."
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 & Lee Company; reprinted 1981 by Contemporary Books.

"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 & Lee Company; reprinted 1981 by Contemporary Books.

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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
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I am standing Upon the seashore...

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Henry van Dyke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Henry Van Dyke Quotes
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Poets' Corner - Henry Van Dyke - Selected Works
Selected Works by poet Henry Van Dyke. ... When the blue sky burns, and the great sun turns: To his home by the way of the west. Henry Van Dyke ...
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Biography and hymns of Henry Jackson van Dyke (1852-1933)
Biography and hymns of Henry Jackson van Dyke (1852-1933)
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