The School-Boy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
JUNE 8, 1881THREE paths there be where Learning's favored sons,Trained in the schools which hold her favored ones,Follow their several ...
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 21, 1865FOUR summers coined their golden light in leaves,Four wasteful autumns flung them to the gale,Four winters wore ...
This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times,Of joyous days and jolly nights, and merry Christmas ...
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
1862'T is midnight: through my troubled dreamLoud wails the tempest's cry;Before the gale, with tattered sail,A ship goes plunging by.What ...
ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, JUNE 14, 1882I. AT THE SUMMITSISTER, we bid you welcome,--we who standOn the high table-land;We who ...
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERSNow, while our soldiers are fighting our battles,Each at his post to do all that he ...
September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893HE rests from toil; the portals of the tombClose on the last of those ...
BRAVE singer of the coming time,Sweet minstrel of the joyous present,Crowned with the noblest wreath of rhyme,The holly-leaf of Ayrshire's ...
December 17, l807 - September 7, 1892THOU, too, hast left us. While with heads bowed low,And sorrowing hearts, we mourned ...
AND what shall be the song to-night,If song there needs must be?If every year that brings us hereMust steal an ...
WHEN o'er the street the morning peal is flungFrom yon tall belfry with the brazen tongue,Its wide vibrations, wafted by ...
AT THE REVERE HOUSE,SEPTEMBER 25,1861THE land of sunshine and of song!Her name your hearts divine;To her the banquet's vows belongWhose ...
AN APPEALLISTEN, young heroes! your country is calling!Time strikes the hour for the brave and the true!Now, while the foremost ...
ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN. 1809-1890FOR him the Architect of allUnroofed our planet's starlit hall;Through voids unknown to worlds unseenHis clearer vision rose ...
I BRING the simplest pledge of love,Friend of my earlier days;Mine is the hand without the glove,The heart-beat, not the ...
AT THE DINNER TO THE PRESIDENT,BOSTON, JUNE 26, 1877How to address him? awkward, it is trueCall him "Great Father," as ...
W. W. SWAINBEHOLD--not him we knew!This was the prison which his soul looked through,Tender, and brave, and true.His voice no ...
1849-1861THE piping of our slender, peaceful reedsWhispers uncared for while the trumpets bray;Song is thin air; our hearts' exulting playBeats ...
ANDREW, HINGHAM, OCTOBER 7, 1875BEHOLD the shape our eyes have known!It lives once more in changeless stone;So looked in mortal ...
Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming,Snatched from the altars of insolent foes,Burning with star-fires, but never ...
APRIL 27,1861EIGHTY years have passed, and more,Since under the brave old treeOur fathers gathered in arms, and sworeThey would follow ...
THE two proud sisters of the sea,In glory and in doom!--Well may the eternal waters beTheir broad, unsculptured tomb!The wind ...
HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? If there has, take him out, without making a noise. ...
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