Who is Henry Van Dyke

Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr. (November 10, 1852 – April 10, 1933) was an American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman.

Early life

Van Dyke was born on November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Henry Jackson van Dyke Sr. (1822–1891), a prominent Brooklyn Presbyterian clergyman known in the antebellum years for his anti-abolitionist views. The family traced its roots to Jan Thomasse van Dijk, who emigrated from Holland to North America in 1652.The younger Henry van Dyke graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in 1869, Princeton University, in 1873 and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1877.

Career

He served as a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. Among the ...
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Henry Van Dyke Poems

• The Mocking-bird
  In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon,
  Catching the lilt of every easy tune;
  But when the day departs he sings of love,--
  His own wild song beneath the listening moon....
• Liberty Enlightening The World
  Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhatten Bay,
  The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:
  Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand
  To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land. ...
• Jeanne D'arc
  The land was broken in despair,
  The princes quarrelled in the dark,
  When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air
  Of selfish minds and wills that did not dare, ...
• The Heavenly Hills Of Holland
  The heavenly hills of Holland,--
  How wondrously they rise
  Above the smooth green pastures
  Into the azure skies! ...
• Late Spring
  I
  
  Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days,
  Why the sweet Spring delays, ...

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Comments about Henry Van Dyke

• Jonasaquin: "time is very slow for those who wait; very fast for those who are scared; very long for those who lament; very short for those who celebrate. but, for those who love, time is eternal." - henry van dyke credit: tumblr
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• Kyjicebu1: a friend is what the heart needs all the time. -henry van dyke kyji here twostay
• Davytheslavy: “time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” – henry van dyke
• Beamsamanda: “the first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. the difference between them is sometimes as great as a month”—henry van dyke

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