An After-Dinner Poem (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
I guess you think you know this story.You don't. The real one's much more gory.The phoney one, the one you ...
When I go to tea with the little Smiths, there are eight of them there, but there's only one of ...
Ho! workers of the old time styledThe Gentle Craft of Leather!Young brothers of the ancient guild,Stand forth once more together!Call ...
The vainest girls in forty statesWere Gwendolyn and Gladys Gates;They warbled slightly off the air,Romantic German songs,And each of them ...
Standing on tiptoe, head back, eyes and armUpraised, Kate groped to reach the higher shelf.Her sleeve slid up like darkness ...
Who have been educated out of naive responses,The hoodoo of love, the cinderella of classKnowing that everywhere man has the ...
A lonely child with toil o'ertaxed, Sits Cinderella by the fire;Her limbs in weariness relaxed, And in her eyes a sad desire.But ...
FORTUNE hath altered since a year ago.The Cinderella of this sunny bedWast thou, neglected and dispirited,With not a flower and ...
Look me over, kid!I know I'm neat, -Little Cinderella from head to feet.Drinks all night at Club Alabam, -What comes ...
'Tis evident that such a nameAs mine to Mr. Dobson came,Like Cinderella's shoe—it fitThe foot; so, on he buckled it.Always ...
Poor, pretty little thing she was, The sweetest-faced of girls, With eyes as blue as larkspurs, And ...
You always read about it:the plumber with the twelve childrenwho wins the Irish Sweepstakes.From toilets to riches.That story.Or the nursemaid,some ...
THEY nearly strike me dumb, And I tremble when they come Pit-a-pat: This palpitation means That these Boots are Geraldine's ...
I drink the gall of skies in autumn, tuberoses' Sweet bitterness in your betrayals burning stream; I drink the gall ...
They didn't meet me, roamed,On steps with lanterns bright.I entered quiet homeIn murky, pail moonlight. Under a lamp's green halo,With ...
Like Some Old fashioned Miracle When Summertime is done -- Seems Summer's Recollection And the Affairs of June As infinite ...
You always read about it: the plumber with the twelve children who wins the Irish Sweepstakes. From toilets to riches. ...
Cinderella in the street In a ragged gown, Sloven slippers on her feet, Shames our tidy town; Harsh her locks ...
I. THE LION The Lion is a kingly beast. He likes a Hindu for a feast. And if no Hindu ...
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