Grandmother’ (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
'Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembersAll the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried ...
'Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembersAll the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried ...
'Midst the men and things which willHaunt an old man's memory still,Drollest, quaintest of them all,With a boy's laugh I ...
1630ALL overgrown with bush and fern,And straggling clumps of tangled trees,With trunks that lean and boughs that turn,Bent eastward by ...
Lay my rifle here beside me, set my Bible on my breast,For a moment let the warning bugles cease;As the ...
There's a glade in Aghadoe, Aghadoe, Aghadoe, There 's a green and silent glade in Aghadoe,Where we met, my love and ...
Clavers and his HighlandmenCame down upo' the raw, man,Who being stout, gave mony a clout;The lads began to claw then.With ...
'Twas evening, and the wintry white Glistened beneath the star-lit sky — Forth marched the British cohorts right Through Boston's ...
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no ...
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
PART ONE The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed ...
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