Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
Sweet Philomela's long concealed woe,From darke obliuion now I bring to light;That (though it helpe her not) the world may ...
There's nothing so exasperates a true Australian youth,Whatever be his rank in life, be he cultured or uncouth,As the manner ...
Led by Wilhelm, as you tell,God has done extremely well;You with patronizing nodShow that you approve of God.Kaiser, face a ...
Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out, The ships all sunk among the coral strands. I am so ...
A connoisseur, he holds his bookAnd picks his pieces daintily,--A prince with patronizing look,As though such feast must surely be ...
for Maxine Kumin Where did these enormous children come from, More ladylike than we have ever been? Some of ours ...
Long ago in a poultry yard One dull November morn, Beneath a motherly soft wing A little goose was born. ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
It may have been the pride in me for aught I know, or just a patronizing whim; But call it ...
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