The Exile’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
YE that have faced the billows and the sprayOf good St. Botolph's island-studded bay,As from the gliding bark your eye ...
YE that have faced the billows and the sprayOf good St. Botolph's island-studded bay,As from the gliding bark your eye ...
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
Tell the story to your sonsOf the gallant days of yoreWhen the brig of seven gunsFought the fleet of seven ...
Great honour hath Boston, the city, won of late in a glorious frayWith a handful of Portuguese fishers on that ...
They took dead Cromwell from his grave, And stuck his head on high;The Merry Monarch and his men, They laughed as they ...
The poet cried, ' I am obsessed, * And out of joint I find the times ; Silent the Muse ...
THERE is a big artist named Val, The roughs' and the prize-fighters' pal: The mind of a groom And the ...
Over that morn hung heaviness, until,Near sunless noon, we heard the ship's bell beatingA melancholy staccato on dead metal;Saw the ...
_From the Portuguese._HEAVY my heart is, heavy to carry,Full of soft foldings, of downy enwrapments--And the outer fold of all ...
In the middle of the road there was a stonethere was a stone in the middle of the roadthere was ...
There's a star in Orion,That's well known to fame:Perhaps you will tell me,You've ne'er heard its name.Then listen a moment,I'll ...
AN IDYLL Back from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand ...
The expensive perfume the rich, sweet nard filling all the house the air thick with the coming the days slipping ...
Such extravagance when there was need giving so much pouring out the ointment anointing the master preparing him for what ...
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
KIND Sir, I've read your paper through, And faith, to me, 'twas really new! How guessed ye, Sir, what maist ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
They tell me that euphoria is the feeling of feeling wonderful, well, today I feel euphorian, Today I have the ...
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