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.

(C) Henry Van Dyke
04/04/2017


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