How To Not Settle It (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I LIKE, at times, to hear the steeples' chimesWith sober thoughts impressively that mingle;But sometimes, too, I rather like--don't you?--To ...
I LIKE, at times, to hear the steeples' chimesWith sober thoughts impressively that mingle;But sometimes, too, I rather like--don't you?--To ...
Not fond displays of cost, nor pampered train Of idle menials, me so much delight, Nor mirrored halls, nor roofs with gilding ...
I sit upon a shattered shaft, as if Time, worn and blind,Had smote himself in sudden rage and left one ...
EACH race has died and lived and fought for the "true" gods of that poor race, Unconsciously, divinest thought of ...
Now in these last spent drops, slow, slower shed,Love dies, Love dies, Love dies--ah, Love is dead!Sad Love in life, ...
August 4: 1265Earl Simon on the Abbey towerIn summer sunshine stood,While helm and lance o'er Greenhill heightsCome glinting through the ...
I.Night, with her power to silence day,Filled up my lonely room,Quenching all sounds but one that layBeyond her passing doom,Where ...
Oh, not more subtly silence strays Amongst the winds, between the voices,Mingling alike with pensive lays, And with the music ...
Golden rose the house, in the portal I sawthee, a marvel, carven in subtle stuff, aportent. Life died down in ...
XIIIPerhaps in mercy is the future masked. For who so hardy, if his fate were read, As to abide its ...
Over and back, the long waves crawl and track the sand with foam; night darkens, and the sea takes on ...
WHEN chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare, One ev'ning, as I wander'd forth Along the banks of ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
(November, 1863) A kindling impulse seized the host Inspired by heaven's elastic air; Their hearts outran their General's plan, Though ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
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