The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time

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CONTENTS PREMONITION THE RED FLOWER (JUNE, 1914) THE TRIAL AS

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

THE BELLS OF MALINES AUGUST 17, 1914

THE NAME OF FRANCE

JEANNE D'ARC RETURNS

INTERLUDES IN HOLLAND

THE HEAVENLY HILLS OF HOLLAND

THE PROUD LADY

FLOOD-TIDE OF FLOWERS IN HOLLAND

ENTER AMERICA

AMERICA'S PROSPERITY

THE GLORY OF SHIPS

MARE LIBERUM I

"LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD"

THE OXFORD THRUSHES FEBRUARY, 1917

HOMEWARD BOUND

Title: The Red Flower Poems Written in War Time

Author: Henry Van Dyke

Language: English

Produced by Ted Garvin, Tonya Allen and PG Distributed Proofreaders

THE RED FLOWER

POEMS WRITTEN IN WAR TIME

BY HENRY VAN DYKE D.O.L. (OXON.)

1919

PREFACE

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 all the world after we have won this war against war.

SYLVANORA, October 1, 1917.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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