Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamedIn my slight verse such holy things are named--Of Mary's secret hours of hidden joy,Silent, ...
THE curtain rose; in thunders long and loudThe galleries rung; the veteran actor bowed.In flaming line the telltales of the ...
A sick man's chamber, though it often boastThe grateful presence of a literal toast,Can hardly claim, amidst its various wealth,The ...
NOVEMBER 3, 1864O EVEN-HANDED Nature! we confessThis life that men so honor, love, and blessHas filled thine olden measure. Not ...
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
I.FALLEN with autumn's falling leafEre yet his summer's noon was past,Our friend, our guide, our trusted chief,--What words can match ...
IT is not what we say or sing,That keeps our charm so long unbroken,Though every lightest leaf we bringMay touch ...
1819-1891THOU shouldst have sung the swan-song for the choirThat filled our groves with music till the dayLit the last hilltop ...
JANUARY 25, 1859His birthday.--Nay, we need not speakThe name each heart is beating,--Each glistening eye and flushing cheekIn light and ...
YES, lady! I can ne'er forget,That once in other years we met;Thy memory may perchance recallA festal eve, a rose-wreathed ...
BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE, MAY 27, 1868OUR Poet, who has taught the Western breezeTo waft his songs before him ...
TO J. F. CLARKEWHO is the shepherd sent to lead,Through pastures green, the Master's sheep?What guileless 'Israelite indeed'The folded flock ...
HIS TEMPTATIONNo fear lest praise should make us proud!We know how cheaply that is won;The idle homage of the crowdIs ...
JUNE 7, 1877ANGEL of love, for every griefIts soothing balm thy mercy brings,For every pang its healing leaf,For homeless want, ...
CITY OF BOSTON, JUNE 1, 1865CHORAL: "LUTHER'S JUDGMENT HYMN."O THOU of soul and sense and breathThe ever-present Giver,Unto thy mighty ...
O GOD! in danger's darkest hour,In battle's deadliest field,Thy name has been our Nation's tower,Thy truth her help and shield.Our ...
"OLD HUNDRED"O LORD of Hosts! Almighty King!Behold the sacrifice we bringTo every arm thy strength impart,Thy spirit shed through every ...
THOU Gracious Power, whose mercy lendsThe light of home, the smile of friends,Our gathered flock thine arms infoldAs in the ...
GIVER of all that crowns our days,With grateful hearts we sing thy praise;Through deep and desert led by Thee,Our promised ...
WHEN evening's shadowy fingers foldThe flowers of every hue,Some shy, half-opened bud will holdIts drop of morning's dew.Sweeter with every ...
DANVERS, 1866BANKRUPT! our pockets inside out!Empty of words to speak his praises!Worcester and Webster up the spout!Dead broke of laudatory ...
THUS I lift the sash, so longShut against the flight of song;All too late for vain excuse,--Lo, my captive rhymes ...
SAY not the Poet dies! Though in the dust he lies, He cannot forfeit his melodious breath, Unsphered by envious ...
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