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Poem by Henry Van Dyke


Indian Summer


A soft veil dims the tender skies,
And half conceals from pensive eyes
The bronzing tokens of the fall;
A calmness broods upon the hills,
And summer’s parting dream distills
A charm of silence over all.

The stacks of corn, in brown array,
Stand waiting through the placid day,
Like tattered wigwams on the plain;
The tribes that find a shelter there
Are phantom peoples, forms of air,
And ghosts of vanished joy and pain.

At evening when the crimson crest
Of sunset passes down the West,
I hear the whispering host returning;
On far-off fields, by elm and oak,
I see the lights, I smell the smoke,--
The Camp-fires of the Past are burning.



Henry Van Dyke

Poem Theme: Indian Summer

Henry Van Dyke's other poems:
  1. To Julia Marlowe
  2. The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
  3. Edmund Clarence Stedman
  4. One World
  5. The Heavenly Hills of Holland


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • John Tabb Indian Summer ("NO more the battle or the chase")
  • Hamlin Garland Indian Summer ("AT last there came")
  • Lydia Sigourney Indian Summer ("WHEN was the redman's summer?")
  • Sara Teasdale Indian Summer ("LYRIC night of the lingering Indian summer")
  • Katharine Tynan Indian Summer ("This is the sign!")
  • Emily Dickinson Indian Summer ("These are the days when birds come back")
  • Danske Dandridge Indian Summer ("Yes, the sweet summer lingers still")

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