An After-Dinner Poem (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,Singing together.Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpesEach in its tetherSleeping safe ...
Up and down old Brandywine, In the days 'at's past and gone--With a dad-burn hook-and line And a saplin' pole--swawn! I've had more ...
Can we e'er forget our boyhood, And the days we spent at school, With the jolly youths and maidens Who with pencil for ...
In the upper circles Moves a famous manWho has had no equal Since the world began.He was once a broker Down by the ...
She Discourseth of Nothing to Eat and the Cost thereof. Why Merdle--why did you bring Dinewell to-day? So very, though welcome, so ...
Did I 'ear it 'arf in a doze:The Co-ops was a goin' somewhere,Did I 'ear it while pickin' 'ops;How they ...
IT was stiller, dimmer twilight - amber toornin' into gold, Like young maidens' hairs get yellow und more dark as ...
Haw! Good fellow I'm not doubting Your intentions are all right,And your general appearance Is intelligent and bright;But the question ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea—The land of stoves and sunshine is good enough ...
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. I have a story to tell.Lend me your ears, if you've not got ...
I've really done enough of sums, I've done so very many, That now instead of doing sum ...
JONES plays the deuce with his grammar,Knocks time and tense into tin-tacks ;Brown, the big Visigoth, wielding blunt hammer,Mauls right ...
O gracious jar,--my friend, my twin, Born at the time when I was born,--Whether tomfoolery you inspireOr animate with love's ...
234You're right-"the way is narrow"-And "difficult the Gate"-And "few there be"-Correct again-That "enter in-thereat"-'Tis Costly-So are purples!'Tis just the price ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
You're right -- "the way is narrow" -- And "difficult the Gate" -- And "few there be" -- Correct again ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
O YE wha are sae guid yoursel', Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell ...
Something spreading underground won't speak to us under skin won't declare itself not all life-forms want dialogue with the machine-gods ...
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