Our Oldest Friend (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I GIVE you the health of the oldest friendThat, short of eternity, earth can lend,--A friend so faithful and tried ...
I GIVE you the health of the oldest friendThat, short of eternity, earth can lend,--A friend so faithful and tried ...
Died at Hartford, December 30th, 1861.Sorrow and Joy collude. One mansion hearsThe children shouting o'er their Christmas Tree,While in the ...
A NEW YEAR'S DAY SONG.THERE is wintry cold and snow At home, on mount or lea;With us, 'tis summer's glow, As we ...
Says Dick, "ther's a' notion sprung up i' mi yed, For th' furst time i' th' whole coorse o' mi life,An' ...
Died at Portland, Connecticut, January 1st, 1861.I think of her unfolding prime, Her childhood bright and fair,The speaking eye, the earnest ...
AN INFANT, ON HISFIRST NEW-YEAR'S DAY, 1821.I.DEAR Babe, soft object of my care,Unseen, for whom I pour my pray'r;Unknown, yet ...
Returning Janus now prepares,For Bec, a new supply of cares,Sent in a bag to Dr. Swift,Who thus displays the new-year's ...
LAND of the North! I waft to theeThe South's warm benedicite!Thou camest when all was grief and pain,The feverish blood, ...
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS.Ye idler things, ...
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,And the winter winds are wearily sighing:Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,And tread ...
Good old days--dear old days When my heart beat high and bold--When the things of earth seemed full of life, ...
Dip down upon the northern shore O sweet new-year delaying long; Thou doest expectant ...
SOFT-LITTERED is the new-year's lambing-fold, And in the hollowed haystack at its side The shepherd lies o' nights now, wakeful-eyed ...
WHO is this little one lying,Said Time, "at my garden-gate,Moaning and sobbing and crying,Out in the cold so late?""They lurked ...
WHAT masque of what old wind-withered New-YearHonours this Lady? Flora, wanton-eyedFor birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:Aurora, Zephyrus, ...
Dip down upon the northern shore,O sweet new-year, delaying long;Thou doest expectant Nature wrong,Delaying long, delay no more.What stays thee ...
No news of navies burnt at seas; No noise of late spawn'd tittyries; No closet plot or open vent, That ...
Little cullud Rastus come a-skippin' down de street, A-smilin' and a-grinnin' at every one he meet; My, oh! He was ...
A GUID New-year I wish thee, Maggie! Hae, there's a ripp to thy auld baggie: Tho' thou's howe-backit now, an' ...
Dip down upon the northern shore O sweet new-year delaying long; Thou doest expectant nature wrong; Delaying long, delay no ...
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