The Statesman’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHO of all statesmen is his country's pride,Her councils' prompter and her leaders' guide?He speaks; the nation holds its breath ...
WHO of all statesmen is his country's pride,Her councils' prompter and her leaders' guide?He speaks; the nation holds its breath ...
The seeming saint with long drawn face, Who thinks that he has so much grace He should be throned on highest place To ...
A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark Death is ...
A Life TragedyA pistol shot rings round and round the world;In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark ...
Saloman looked from his donjon bars,Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand,And he cursed with a curse his revolting ...
Past the Red Box at Vesey streetSwing two strong tides of hurrying feet,And up and down and all the dayRises ...
(To the memory of William Hickey, Esq.)COMING out of India with ten thousand a yearExchanged for flesh and temper, a ...
A MysteryHis face was sad; some shadow must have hungAbove his soul; its folds, now falling dark,Now almost bright; but ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
All the comforts of life in a Tavern are known,'Tis his home who possesses not one of his own;And to ...
'TWAS night-and where a watery sound Came moaning up the Flat,Six rude and bearded stockmen round Their blazing ...
Ar, wimmin! Wot a blinded fool I've been! I arsts meself, wot else could I ixpeck?I done me block complete ...
Behold, I built a fowlhouse in my yard! Two months agone the great work was begun,And ev'ry eventide I labored ...
Ovarus mine, Plant thou the vineWithin this kindly soil of Tibur; Nor temporal woes, Nor spiritual, knowsThe ...
Free to all souls the hidden beauty calls, The sea thrift dwelling on her spray-swept height, The lofty rose, the ...
The tusks which clashed in mighty brawlsOf mastodons, are billiard balls.The sword of Charlemagne the JustIs Ferric Oxide, known as ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
Send but a song oversea for us, Heart of their hearts who are free, Heart of their singer, to be ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
"The North has got him." --Yukonism. I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did. I ...
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