English Poetry. Henry Van Dyke. America. Генри Ван Дайк.

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк)

America

I love thine inland seas, 
Thy groves of giant trees,
Thy rolling plains;
Thy rivers’ mighty sweep, 
Thy mystic canyons deep, 
Thy mountains wild and steep,
All thy domains; 

Thy silver Eastern strands, 
Thy Golden Gate that stands
Wide to the West;
Thy flowery Southland fair, 
Thy sweet and crystal air, --
O land beyond compare,
Thee I love best! 

Additional verses for the 
National Hymn, 
March, 1906.

Henry Van Dyke’s other poems:

1. The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
2. The Wind of Sorrow
3. Spring in the South
4. Francis Makemie
5. Patria

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Sydney Dobell (Сидней Добелл) America (“Nor force nor fraud shall sunder us! O ye”)

Bayard Taylor (Бейард Тейлор) America (“FORESEEN in the vision of sages”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) America (“I am the refuge of all the oppressed”)

Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) America (“Although she feeds me bread of bitterness”)

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