The Mind’s Diet (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
No life worth naming ever comes to goodIf always nourished on the selfsame food;The creeping mite may live so if ...
No life worth naming ever comes to goodIf always nourished on the selfsame food;The creeping mite may live so if ...
Part FirstYou'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff, The name of that highly deluded old fluff Who chartered a ...
St. Regimund, e'er he became a saint,Was much imbued with vulgar earthly taint;E'er he renounced the honors of a KnightAnd ...
Oh! no, not lovelier looks the muse, In fiction's gaudy colours drest;'Tis but the heartless bard's excuse, 'Twas ...
Now the "rosy morn appearing" Floods with light the dazzled heaven;And the schoolboy groans on hearing That eternal clock strike ...
I said this morning, as I leaned and threwMy shutters open to the Spring's surprise,"Tell me, O Earth, how is ...
499Those fair - fictitious People -The Women - plucked awayFrom our familiar Lifetime -The Men of Ivory -Those Boys and ...
SENT TO THE HON. MRS. O'NEILL, WITHPAINTED FLOWERS. The poet's fancy takes from Flora's realmHer buds and leaves to dress ...
FROM THE NOVEL OF EMMELINE. WHEN welcome slumber sets my spirit free,Forth to fictitious happiness it flies,And where Elysian bowers ...
562Conjecturing a ClimateOf unsuspended Suns -Adds poignancy to Winter -The Shivering Fancy turnsTo a fictitious CountryTo palliate a Cold -Not ...
Smokes of cigarettes and mugs full of coffee, next to the fictitious line where the eddy of words leans against ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
Those fair -- fictitious People -- The Women -- plucked away From our familiar Lifetime -- The Men of Ivory ...
Like Some Old fashioned Miracle When Summertime is done -- Seems Summer's Recollection And the Affairs of June As infinite ...
I think to Live -- may be a Bliss To those who dare to try -- Beyond my limit to ...
Could Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done -- Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none -- Balked ...
Conjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns -- Adds poignancy to Winter -- The Shivering Fancy turns To a fictitious Country ...
Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -- Because that ...
As Sleigh Bells seem in summer Or Bees, at Christmas show -- So fairy -- so fictitious The individuals do ...
I many times thought Peace had come When Peace was far away -- As Wrecked Men -- deem they sight ...
It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit along the straight road that ends at the Hippodrome and ...
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