Verses For After-Dinner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
The sails hang dead, or they lift and flap like a cornfield scarecrow's coat,And the seabirds swim abreast of us ...
LINES , in addition to the treasureOf poesy, culled for the pleasureOf beau and belle and gentle dame,When seated round ...
To a Young Friend who had gone over to Ireland in the interests of his Political Party, at the Parliamentary ...
On pay-day nights, neck-full with beer,Old soldiers stumbling homeward here,Homeward (still dazzled by the sparkLove kindled in some alley dark)Young ...
Where can I find love that never changesSmiles that are true and always just the same,Caring not how the fierce ...
As a fisher-boy I faredTo the black rock in the sea,And, while false gifts I prepared.Listen'd and sang merrily,Down descended ...
THE ISLE OF REFUGE.Lemminkainen, full of joyance,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,Took provisions in abundance,Fish and butter, bread and bacon,Hastened to the Isle ...
I know I'm dull. I know I got a brain That's only fit fer fertilizin' 'air.I don't arst for bokays: ...
MY father left a park to me, But it is wild and barren, A garden too with scarce ...
(Man's Inhumanity to Hogs Makes Countless Thousands Squeal.) I lived upon a little farm, A happy hog ...
Newmarket or St. Leger . . .Who, in the garden pony carrying skepsOf grass or fallen leaves, his knees gone ...
(Suggested By A Fine Horse, Restive In Youth, But Useful In Age.)IN the cool of a summer evening.'Mid pleasant sights ...
Sir Arthur, the sinner, Ate twelve fish for dinner, And you may believe it's just as I say! ...
O you chorus of indolent reviewers,Irresponsible, indolent reviewers,Look, I come to the test, a tiny poemAll composed in a metre ...
As a fisher-boy I fared To the black rock in the sea, And, while false gifts I prepared. Listen'd and ...
While he was beginning to flounder sinking through the skin of the waves crying out to the Master, "Lord, save ...
To be a great musician you must be a man of moods, You have to be, to understand sonatas and ...
Here, she said, put this on your head. She handed me a hat. you 'bout as white as your dad, ...
MY father left a park to me, But it is wild and barren, A garden too with scarce a tree, ...
O you chorus of indolent reviewers, Irresponsible, indolent reviewers, Look, I come to the test, a tiny poem All composed ...
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