Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone,Unmoving and tall in the light of the sky,Where the spray ...
When Vertue's Standard Ecclesiasticks bear,Their sacred Robe the noblest Minds revere.All to its Guidance do their Thoughts submit,But such who ...
I thank ye, my frien's, for the warmth o' your greetin':Ther' 's few airthly blessin's but wut's vain an' fleetin';But ...
Dear M---- By way of saving time,I'll do this letter up in rhyme,Whose slim stream through four pages flowsEre one is ...
No more I hail the morning's golden gleam,No more the wonders of the view I sing;Friendship requires a melancholy theme,At ...
Pla ce bo, Who is there, who? Di le xi, Dame Margery; Fa, re, my, my, Wherfore and why, why? For the sowle of Philip Sparowe, That ...
An old man in Concord forgets to go to morning service. He falls asleep, while reading Vergil, and dreams that ...
O brothers mine, to-day we standWhere half a century sweeps our ken,Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand,Struck off our bonds ...
1863O'er the land, a hush had fallen,Hearts Thrilled expectantly,Till from twice two million voices,Rang the glad cry, "We are free!"Then ...
August: not only named for Augustus Roman Emperor 63 B.C.-A.D. 14. It also celebrates such wonderful events as all 'Horses birthdays' ...
PHI BETA KAPPAWENDELL PHILLIPS, ORATOR; CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, POET1881"THE Dutch have taken Holland,"--so the schoolboys used to say;The Dutch have ...
WENDELL PHILLIPSHe stood upon the world's broad threshold; wideThe din of tattle and of slaughter rose;He saw God stand upon ...
As Pope who gathers mony to translateWith Gay the Shepheard Writer mett of late.Says Pope, your Ecclogues wont come out ...
Build me a nation, said the Lord. The distant nations heard the word, Build me a nation true and strong, ...
He came when tyranny was ripe, a torchThat lit the darkened avenue of hope,He came from cabin, ragged, poor, and ...
We sat in the belly of the aeroplane and held out for sirens to swerve across the grass; men with ...
A waterfall, a stream a cascade of gifts for all our senses all of our needs endless, one after another ...
While you walk the water's edge, turning over concepts I can't envision, the honking buoy serves notice that at any ...
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