American Academy Centennial Celebration (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
TO G. F. M. THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED IN MEMORY OF MANY DAYS. _What though I dreamed of mountain heights, Of peaks, the barriers of ...
THE SUMMER warmth has left the sky, The summer songs have died away;And, withered, in the footpaths lie The fallen leaves, but ...
I In the west the sun departing Leaves the weary day asleep, And the willows trail their streamers In these waters still and deep. Flow, ...
The sky, lazily disdaining to pursueThe setting sun, too indolent to holdA lengthened tournament for flashing gold,Passively darkens for night's ...
If ever we see those gardens again,The summer will be gone-at least our summer.Some other mockingbird will concertizeAmong the mulberries, ...
YES, heaven has come down to meet us;It hangs in our atmosphere;Its beautiful open secretIs whispered in every ear.And everywhere, ...
They've taken you, my son, from your dreams and like a butterflythey've embroidered you, my son. Your sad eyes bleed ...
KULLERVO'S EVIL DEEDS.Kullerwionen, youthful wizard,In his blue and scarlet stockings,Henceforth lingered with his parents;But he could not change his nature,Could ...
Master of the murmuring courtsWhere the shapes of sleep convene!-Lo! my spirit here exhortsAll the powers of thy demesneFor their ...
I The spirit of Romance dies not to those Who hold a kindred spirit in their souls: Even as the ...
Now with a humming from the greening skies,Sphinx moths with course set true,Shoot forth, torpedoes with a spinning screw,And bulbous ...
All winter long you listened for the boom Of distant cannon wheeled into their place. Sometimes outside beneath a bombers' ...
I have allowed my family to scatter,All those who were my dearest to depart,And once again an age-long lonelinessComes in ...
O Master-Builder, blustering as you go About your giant work, transforming all The empty woods into a glittering hall, And ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
Death came to me in a mini skirt As skittish as a kitten , And said : " I am ...
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
STANDING IN EDEN 1 Poetry claimed me young on Skegness beach Before I was born I answered her cry For ...
The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue The setting sun, too indolent to hold A lengthened tournament for flashing gold, Passively ...
Edmonton, thy cemetery In which I love to tread Has roused in me a dreary thought For all the countless ...
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