The Lover’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT ailed young Lucius? Art had vainly triedTo guess his ill, and found herself defied.The Augur plied his legendary skill;Useless; ...
WHAT ailed young Lucius? Art had vainly triedTo guess his ill, and found herself defied.The Augur plied his legendary skill;Useless; ...
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
A Prize PoemThe star of Bethlehem rose, and truth and lightBurst on the nations that reposed in night,And chased the ...
"Tandem venias precamur Nube candentes humeros amictus Augur Apollo." Lord of the golden lyre Fraught with the Dorian fire, Oh! fair-haired child of Leto, come ...
By our first strange and fatal interview,By all desires which thereof did ensue,By our long starving hopes, by that remorseWhich ...
On the next morrow, early, rose the king; And sat upon his throne: at his right hand, The heroic queen: ...
I. LINDSAY castle's jutted forth On the wild, old sounding sea,And a gallant race of the hardy North, ...
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
Daughter of the ancient Eve,We know the gifts ye gave--and give.Who knows the gifts which YOU shall give,Daughter of the ...
Who dares to say your sheep are few? The flocks are all three hundred strong. Who dares despise your ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart ...
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
And I was once like this! that glowing cheek Was mine, those pleasure-sparkling eyes, that brow Smooth as the level ...
Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste ...
I'm wearied of wearying love, my friend, Of worry and strain and doubt; Before we begin, let us view the ...
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