If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage;
If Right made Might, this were the golden age;
But now, until we win the long campaign,
Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.

(C) Henry Van Dyke
03/11/2017


Best Poems of Henry Van Dyke

• Hesper
• Undine
• Work
• The Price Of Peace
• One World
• Pan Learns Music
• Spring In The South
• A Noon Song
• Reliance
• The Song Sparrow
• Life
• Two Schools
• The Mocking-bird
• Nepenthe
• The Empty Quatrain
• Victor Hugo
• An American In Europe
• The Oxford Thrushes
• Stand Fast!
• Departure