Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES!Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the new ...
A MODERNIZED VERSIONI DON'T think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray,But so are many young folks; I ...
When the great Creator fashion'd us, and saw that we were good,He commission'd us to dominate the planet as it ...
STURDY little form, of trueSaxon pattern, through and through;Face as purely Saxon, too,With a smile demure and sly,Dimpled cheek and ...
He had no heart for war, its ways and means,Its train of machinations and machines,Its murky provenance, its flagrant ends;His ...
Thought, passing by that night,how poverty was dullwhere charity imposedtoo much on unfree will.The house condemned could rotsure dividends a ...
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
Build me a nation, said the Lord. The distant nations heard the word, Build me a nation true and strong, ...
This ev'nin' I was sittin' wiv Doreen, Peaceful an' 'appy wiv the day's work done,Watchin', be'ind the orchard's bonzer green, ...
This was what the pointsman said,With both hands at his throbbing head:—"I drew the wrong lever standing hereAnd the danger ...
Who are a mighty happy crewIn ev'rything they say and do?The wildest bunch I ever knew -The bunkhouse boys.Who, through ...
See that satan pollarding a tree,That geometric man straightening a road:Surely such passions are perverse and oddThat violate windows and ...
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair ...
Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros autem, ut ...
School yourself to savour most Joys that have but little cost; Prove the best of life is free, Sun and ...
Because I have ten thousand pounds I sit upon my stern, And leave my living tranquilly for other folks to ...
The man Flammonde, from God knows where, With firm address and foreign air With news of nations in his talk ...
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends ...
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