The Old Player (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE curtain rose; in thunders long and loudThe galleries rung; the veteran actor bowed.In flaming line the telltales of the ...
THE curtain rose; in thunders long and loudThe galleries rung; the veteran actor bowed.In flaming line the telltales of the ...
The thirsty earth, with lips apart,Looked up where rolled an orb of flameAs though a prayer came from its heartFor ...
AN AUTOGRAPH.Graceful in name and in thyself, our riverNone fairer saw in John Ward's pilgrim flock,Proof that upon their century-rooted ...
She leaned over the sinkher weight on her toesand applied lipstickin quick certain strokesthe way a man signshis hundredth autographof ...
WITH AN AUTOGRAPH.A CHILD of the Republic,I have never bowed the kneeTo coronets or sceptres,To rank or royalty:But when a ...
In the Beginning, God, the great Schoolmaster, wrote upon the white leaves of our souls the text of life, in ...
I still min' Jock Buchan, the lang gawkie fule,He was nearly man muckle though still at the schule,While I was ...
Thou ever restless sea, " God's half-uttered mystery," Where are all the ships that sailed so gallantly away? Tell us, ...
One day I got a missive Writ in a dainty hand, Which made my ...
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
It was in the old days, When she used to hang out at a place Called Club Zombie, A black ...
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
'Come, see,' said he, 'my four-foot shelf, A forty volume row; And every one I wrote myself, But that, of ...
Said he: "You saw the Master clear; By Rushy Pond alone he sat, Serene and silent as a seer, in ...
X Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury, Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with ...
XI A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon; And wov'n close, both matter, form and stile; The Subject new: ...
VIII Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease, If ever deed of ...
XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires. Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song First taught our English Musick ...
XIV When Faith and Love which parted from thee never, Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly ...
Written for the Art Autograph during the Irish Famine, 1880. Heartsome Ireland, winsome Ireland, Charmer of the sun and sea, ...
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