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 ...
A poet had a cat. There is nothing odd in that- (I might make a little pun about the Mews!) But what is ...
A metropolitan rat invited His country cousin in town to dine: The country cousin replied, "Delighted." And signed himself, "Sincerely thine." The town rat ...
When on the leaves the rain persists, And every gust brings showers down; When all the woodland smokes with mists, I take the ...
Here, where the thoroughfares meet at an angleOf ninety degrees (this angle is right),You may hear the loafers that jest ...
My lady sat in her bower, and span From a newly plenished creel; She loved the wild sea noise that ...
THE REG'LAR LARKThe Reg'lar Lark's a very gay old Bird;At sunrise often may his voice be heardAs jauntily he wends ...
Of all the fountains that poets sing,--Crystal, thermal, or mineral spring,Ponce de Leon's Fount of Youth,Wells with bottoms of doubtful ...
Way up at the top of a big stack of strawWas the cunningest parlor that ever you saw!And there could ...
" Behold the mansion swift upreared for Jack: See the malt stored in many an ample sack. Mark how the ...
It's not for us to understandHow life on earth began to be,How forms that lived within the seaShould leave the ...
AS from unnumbered worlds awayI found myself My drowsy feetToil up the hill; the summer heatThrobs through the vacant city ...
I. DAUGHTER of gods and men, great ruling will, Seething in oily rage within the sphere Which gods and men ...
Feline counselors, therapists Christian cats, ministering to my disquiet helping me study the scripture, between the petting, the purring bringing ...
Way up at the top of a big stack of straw Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw! And ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward ...
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's ...
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
You never saw a cat with wings, I'll bet a dollar -- well, I did; 'Twas one of those fantastic ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
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