Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
A Parliamentary Debate.All ye who with credulity the whispers hear of fancy,Or yet pursue with eagerness hope's wild extravagancy,Who dream ...
When to sweet music my lady is dancing My heart to mild frenzy her beauty inspires. Into my face are her brown ...
Th' obdurate Adamant disdaines to feele The hardest Chesills edge; Submitting neither unto stone, nor steele; Yet many doe alleadge, That the warme bloud ...
Whose thoughtfulness provides the soilWherein a poet's restless toilMay raise, through drought and frost and showers,His kittle and refractory flowers:For ...
Like this stone ofSan Micheleas coldas hardas thoroughly driedas refractoryas deprived of spiritLike this stoneis my weeping that can'tbe seenLivingdiscounts ...
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
In the garden yonder of yews and death,There sojournethA man who toils, and has toiled for aye.Digging the dried-up ground ...
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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