Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
America, it is to thee,Thou boasted land of liberty, —It is to thee I raise my song,Thou land of blood, ...
Two years have elapsed since the verse of S. W. Met your bright eyes like a fanciful gem;With that kind of ...
There was many a token of festal display, And reveling crowds who were never so gay, And, as it were AEolus charming ...
When the moon is born in the east,And the white rooftops drift asleepUnder the heaped-up light,People leave their shops and ...
I need not tell you of the great quarrels that have happened in ourneighbourhood since the death of the late ...
Just once before I dieI want to climb up on atenement skyto dream my lungs out tillI crythen scatter my ...
We have entered the field, and are ready to fight,Against the rum demon from morning till night,The groggeries, too, we're ...
January 23, 1991The new war is a week old.Bombs fall on Baghdad,missiles on Tel Aviv.The voice on the radio saysthe ...
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
LEAVE now our streets, and in yon plain beholdThose pleasant Seats for the reduced and old;A merchant's gift, whose wife ...
KULLERVO AS A SHEPHERD.Kullerwoinen, wizard-servantOf the blacksmith, Ilmarinen,Purchased slave from Untamoinen,Magic son with sky-blue stockings.,With a head of golden ringlets,In ...
Into our townlan' on a night of snowrode a man from God knows where; None of us bade him stay ...
On a warm sunny day, in the midst of July,A lazy young pig lay stretched out in his sty,Like some ...
THERE is a big artist named Val, The roughs' and the prize-fighters' pal: The mind of a groom And the ...
Hard by the gate-way of the East She dips within her market squareWith provender for man and beast, And goods ...
In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away They were waiting there in ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
It rained the day they buried Tito Puente The eyes of drug dealers following me as I walked through the ...
Said Cotton to Corn, t'other day, As they met and exchang'd salute-- (Squire Corn in his carriage so gay, Poor ...
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