The Smiling Listener (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PRECISELY. I see it. You all want to sayThat a tear is too sad and a laugh is too gay;You ...
PRECISELY. I see it. You all want to sayThat a tear is too sad and a laugh is too gay;You ...
Of his beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn't the slightest hint,But he comes to me as a little ...
UNCLE JOHN, he makes me tired;Thinks 'at he's jest so all-firedSmart, 'at he kin pick up, so,Ever'thing he wants to ...
"There, on the left!" said the colonel: the battlehad shuddered and faded away,Wraith of a fiery enchantment that left onlyashes ...
Dedicated to the 6o,ooo Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983.I didn't know and nobody told ...
Out beyond Aldgate is a road,And a broad,Clean, noble thing it runs,For the sun'sAnd wind's and man's delight,And the high ...
Lay my rifle here beside me, set my Bible on my breast,For a moment let the warning bugles cease;As the ...
One ever hangs where shelled roads part.In this war He too lost a limb,But His disciples hide apart;And now the ...
Hark to the guns, one a penny, two a penny, hotcross buns,Cannons and shells, Bombardier Wells, Looting and shooting, and ...
We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Where the flood-tide of France's early gain, Big with wrecked promise and ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music ...
Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington's time, So when present unpleasantness started, He ...
I am standing on a disused iron bridge that was erected in 1902, according to the iron plaque bolted into ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down A steep hill, suddenly sweeping out To the edge of a cliff, and ...
We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Where the flood-tide of France's early gain, Big with wrecked promise and ...
Old man, you surface seldom. Then you come in with the tide's coming When seas wash cold, foam- Capped: white ...
"I will to the King, And offer him consolation in his trouble, For that man there has set his teeth ...
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