Birthday Of Daniel Webster (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
JANUARY 18, 1856WHEN life hath run its largest roundOf toil and triumph, joy and woe,How brief a storied page is ...
JANUARY 18, 1856WHEN life hath run its largest roundOf toil and triumph, joy and woe,How brief a storied page is ...
"When it's _got_ to be,"--like! always say, As I notice the years whiz past,And know each day is a yesterday, When we ...
DECEMBER 9, 1871ONE word to the guest we have gathered to greet!The echoes are longing that word to repeat,--It springs ...
Among the high-branching, leafless boughsAbove the roof-peaks of the town,Snowflakes unnumberably come down.I watched out of the attic windowThe laced ...
A true French story Three jocund Gallants in their golden age, Court Cock'rells, in their pucellage of witt; For yet Discretion had not ...
Almighty One! I bend in dust before Thee, Even so veil'd cherubs bend;—In calm and still devotion I adore Thee, All-wise, all-present ...
I stood on the top of a sloping hillside; before me, a gold and silver seaof shifting colour, stretched the ...
The neighbours came, the beer they praised,They praised the newborn too,Then left, too dazed to give the babeThe blessing that ...
Sweet spring is here, and o'er the earth A verdant garb is seen,As drenched in balm of April rains The fields put ...
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring warsAppeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it ...
Ring out the bells of heaven! Obey the great command, That all may hear their melody On mountain, sea, and land, The chimes of ...
A stately church by pious hands erected long ago,Was found to lack a vesper bell, by which the poor might ...
Far up the lonely mountain-sideMy wandering footsteps led;The moss lay thick beneath my feet,The pine sighed overhead.The trace of a ...
having chosen exile, madness, obliviontheir striped clothes fadedfaces palethey sleep so heavilythe hospital garden is still empty, wind sweepsthe dust, ...
Summer, adieu Adieu gregarious season.Goodbye, 'revoir, farewell.Now day comes late; now chillier blows the breeze onForsaken beach and boarded-up hotel.Now wild ...
I have been where the roses blow, Where the orange ripens its gold,And the mountains stand with their peaks of snow, To ...
Lying listless in the mossesUnderneath a tree that tossesFlakes of sunshine, and embosses Its green shadow with the snow--Drowsy-eyed, I sink ...
I love the woods when the magic hand Of Spring, as if sweeping the keys Of a wornout instrument, touches the earth; When ...
A MIGHTY theatre of snow and fire,Girt with perpetual Winter, and sublimeBy reason of that lordly solitudeWhich dwells for ever ...
IHe was not learned in any art;But Nature led him by the hand;And spoke her language to his heartSo he ...
COME blest Urania! thou alone canst soarWith dauntless wing through regions unexplor'dBy mortal eye, and thou alone canst paintThe wonders ...
I. The slow reflection of a woman's face Grew, as by witchcraft, in the oval space Of that strange glass on which the ...
THE firelight danced and waveredIn elvish, twinkling gleeOn the leaves and crimson berriesOf the great green Christmas Tree;And the children ...
What are the dreams of him who may sleepWhere the solemn voice of the troubled deepSteals on the wind with ...
No flower in all the land -No leaf upon the tree,Blossom, or bud, or fruit,But an icy fringe instead;And the ...
ALAS my friend, how quickly pleasure flies!Life's brightest hours the swiftest fade away:Hope's distant prospects glad our longing eyes;We reach ...
The wind it blew cold, and the ice was thick, Deeper and deeper the snowdrifts grew;A young mother lay in her ...
Our three cats is Maltese cats, An' they's two that's white,-- An' bofe of 'em's _deef_--an' that's 'Cause their _eyes_ ain't right.-- Uncle say ...
IMother of visions, with lineaments dulcet as numbersBreathed on the eyelids of Love by music that slumbers,Secretly, sweetly, O presence ...
I don't go much on religion, I never ain't had no show;But I've got a middlin' tight grip, sir, On the handful ...
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