Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
The ceremony must be foundthat will wed Desdemona to the huge Moor.It is not enoughto win the approval of the ...
Give me your patience, sister, while I frameExact in capitals your golden name;Or sue the fair Apollo and he willRouse ...
Although a curtain of the salt sea-mistMay fall between the actor and our eyes -Although he change, for dear and ...
I saw the grave of Shakespeare in a dream,And round about it grouped a wondrous throng,His own majestic mourners, who ...
If you lay for Iago at the stage door with a brickYou have missed the moral of the play.He will ...
A Lay of the Loamshire Hunt Cup"Aye, squire," said Stevens, "they back him at evens; The race is all over, ...
WHEN Cupid, wanton boy, was young,His wings unfledg'd, and rude his tongue,He loiter'd in Arcadian bowers,And hid his bow in ...
By the waters of Cam, as the shades were descending, A Fellow sat moaning his desolate lot; From his ...
HE.See the smoke-wreaths how they curl so lightly skywardFrom the ivied cottage nestled in the trees:Such a lovely spot-I really ...
Where are the passions they essayed, And where the tears they made to flow? Where the wild humours they portrayed ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
FROM those drear solitudes and frowsy cells, Where Infamy with sad Repentance dwells; Where turnkeys make the jealous portal fast, ...
Tiger Christ unsheathed his sword, Threw it down, became a lamb. Swift spat upon the species, but Took two women ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris ...
Immortal! William Shakespeare, there's none can you excel, You have drawn out your characters remarkably well, Which is delightful for ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all be advised by me, And don't believe what the ...
I. GOD SEND THE REGICIDE Would that the lying rulers of the world Were brought to block for tyrannies abhorred. ...
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