1. Home »
  2. American Poets »
  3. Henry van Dyke

The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens

by Henry van Dyke

Henry van Dyke

This is the soldier brave enough to tell
The glory-dazzled world that `war is hell':
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,
And rides through hell to save his country's life.




Quotes of the Day

Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
• Michel de Montaigne


Poems of the Day
  • Weldon Kees
    The Doctor Will Return
    by Weldon Kees
    The surgical mask, the rubber teat Are singed, give off an evil smell. You seem to weep more now that heat Spreads everywhere we look. It says here none of us is well.