The Exile’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
YE that have faced the billows and the sprayOf good St. Botolph's island-studded bay,As from the gliding bark your eye ...
YE that have faced the billows and the sprayOf good St. Botolph's island-studded bay,As from the gliding bark your eye ...
THE moon at midnight quenched her vaporous light,Leaving the stars but faintly brightLike tapers that burn ill;And in the fragrant ...
This grave's a cradle where an infant lies,Rockt fast asleepe with Death's sad lullabyes.Sad lullabyes, dear child--in this sweet spot,The ...
DEDICATIONQUEEN of my Life, who gave me for my song The richest crown a poet ever wore, Since ...
GOD dreaming in his star-enshrouded skyBethought himself of me, so even IWho was till then as nothing, leapt to life ...
THE NIGHT descends in glory, and adown the purple west The young moon, like a crescent skiff, upon some fairy ...
"I SAW the constellated matin choir Then when they sang together in the dawn,- The morning stars of this first ...
The night too quickly passes And we are growing old, So let us fill our glasses And toast the Days ...
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, ...
That Barret, the painter of pictures, what feeling for color he had! And Fanning, the maker of music, such melodies ...
I Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows; The mighty skies are palisades of light; The stars are blurred; ...
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