The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time
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Henry Van Dyke
Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American author, educator, diplomat, and clergyman.
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The Red Flower - Henry Van Dyke
Henry Van Dyke
The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time
Published by Good Press, 2019
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EAN 4064066181420
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PREMONITION
THE RED FLOWER
A SCRAP OF PAPER
STAND FAST
LIGHTS OUT
REMARKS ABOUT KINGS
WAR-MUSIC
MIGHT AND RIGHT
THE PRICE OF PEACE
STORM MUSIC
FRANCE AND BELGIUM
THE BELLS OF MALINES
THE NAME OF FRANCE
JEANNE D'ARC RETURNS
INTERLUDES IN HOLLAND
THE HEAVENLY HILLS OF HOLLAND
THE PROUD LADY
FLOOD-TIDE OF FLOWERS
ENTER AMERICA
AMERICA'S PROSPERITY
THE GLORY OF SHIPS
MARE LIBERUM
LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD
THE OXFORD THRUSHES
HOMEWARD BOUND
PREFACE
Table of Contents
These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task.
Two of the poems, A Scrap of Paper
and Stand Fast,
were written in 1914 and bore the signature Civis Americanus—the use of my own name at the time being impossible. Two others, Lights Out
and Remarks about Kings,
were read for me by Robert Underwood Johnson at the meeting of the American Academy in Boston, November, 1915, at which I was unable to be present.
The rest of the verses were printed after I had resigned my diplomatic post and was free to say what I thought and felt, without reserve.
The Interludes in Holland
are thoughts of the peaceful things that will abide for