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 ...
Young Philiper Flash was a promising lad,His intentions were good--but oh, how sad For a person to think How the veriest pinkAnd ...
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit! When _he_ starts in a-talkin' other folks is apt to quit!-- 'Pears like ...
When first sent to School (now the Station was Rugby)I fancied my masters and took to the boys;I thought to ...
"Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's dayGave his broad lawns until the set of sunUp to the people: thither flocked ...
Down here in Cactus Center we believe in savin' time;Unlike the waste of powder, wastin' daylight is a crime;So we ...
Most every night when they're in bed,And both their little prayers have said,They shout for me to come upstairsAnd tell ...
Oh, what a pleasant game is life When we are bravely battingAnd glorying in skill and strife. We ...
His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth, His hat pushed from his brow, His dress best fitted for the ...
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the people: ...
I do not write for love of pelf, Nor lust for phantom fame; I do not rhyme to please myself, ...
On Western plains, where shade is not, 'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue, Where all is dry and all is ...
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