Verses For After-Dinner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
THERE was a sound of hurrying feet,A tramp on echoing stairs,There was a rush along the aisles,--It was the hour ...
IT was not many centuries since,When, gathered on the moonlit green,Beneath the Tree of Liberty,A ring of weeping sprites was ...
Often, when o'er tree and turret,Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I lingerKnown familiarly as 'King's.'And the ghosts ...
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
Oh the dear summer evening! How the air is mellow with the delicate breath of flowers and wafts of hay ...
I.She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid The ever-shifting crowd of passengers.I marked a big tear quivering on the lid Of ...
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
Part FirstYou'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff, The name of that highly deluded old fluff Who chartered a ...
Woe, woe is me! for whither can I fly? Where hide me from Mathesis' fearful eye? Where'er I turn the ...
When I was but a Freshman - and that was long ago -I saw her first, but did not learn ...
Often, when o'er tree and turret, Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I linger Known familiarly as "King's."And ...
I wish I had a barrel of rumand sugar three hundred pound.I'd put it in the College belland stir it ...
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