The Mother’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamedIn my slight verse such holy things are named--Of Mary's secret hours of hidden joy,Silent, ...
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamedIn my slight verse such holy things are named--Of Mary's secret hours of hidden joy,Silent, ...
Of their great names I may record but few; He who beholds the Ocean white with sails And copies each confuses all ...
Where the road climbs free from the marsh and the seaTo the last rose sunset-gleams,Twixt a fold and a fold ...
As o'er my latest book I pored,Enjoying it immensely,I suddenly exclaimed 'Good Lord!'And gripped the volume tensely.'Golly!' I cried. I ...
It stands like Night,The sepulchre of a departed light,Whose glory gone,Each hoary vestige chroniclesOf crumbling stone.The portal now,A broken arch ...
A KING once made a gallery of art,With portraits of dead friends and living graced;And at the end, 'neath curtains ...
As when at Delphi, Thymus close behind,He flew through stadium to applause's roar,So on this plinth now Ladas runs one ...
WILD winged thing, O brought I know not whence To beat your life out in my life's low cage; You ...
Said the Digger: "Soon forgot! Soon forgot, the deeds of war. Better so, may be. . . Why not? Beauty ...
Beyond the Chiltern coast, this church:A lighthouse in dry seas of standing corn.Bees hive in the tower; the outer stonePared ...
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
I. I dream of a red-rose tree. And which of its roses three Is the dearest rose to me? II. ...
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
Why is there no monument To Porridge in our land? It it's good enough to eat, It's good enough to ...
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