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 ...
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
ANGEL of Death! extend thy silent reign!Stretch thy dark sceptre o'er this new domainNo sable car along the winding roadHas ...
IN the hour of twilight shadowsThe Pilgrim sire looked out;He thought of the "bloudy Salvages"That lurked all round about,Of Wituwamet's ...
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 21, 1865FOUR summers coined their golden light in leaves,Four wasteful autumns flung them to the gale,Four winters wore ...
A BALLADIT was the stalwart butcher man,That knit his swarthy brow,And said the gentle Pig must die,And sealed it with ...
NOVEMBER 3, 1864O EVEN-HANDED Nature! we confessThis life that men so honor, love, and blessHas filled thine olden measure. Not ...
PRESENTED BY GEORGE W. CHILDS, OF PHILADELPHIAWELCOME, thrice welcome is thy silvery gleam,Thou long-imprisoned stream!Welcome the tinkle of thy crystal ...
SHE has gone,— she has left us in passion and pride,— Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She has torn ...
THE house was crammed from roof to floor,Heads piled on heads at every door;Half dead with August's seething heatI crowded ...
READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL,FEBRUARY 8, 1876, IN MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWEI.LEADER of armies, Israel's ...
TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONAPRIL 23, 1864"Who claims our Shakespeare from that realm unknown,Beyond the storm-vexed islands of the deep,Where Genoa's roving mariner ...
December 17, l807 - September 7, 1892THOU, too, hast left us. While with heads bowed low,And sorrowing hearts, we mourned ...
I GIVE you the health of the oldest friendThat, short of eternity, earth can lend,--A friend so faithful and tried ...
TRANSLATION FROM THE ENEID, BOOK I.THE god looked out upon the troubled deepWaked into tumult from its placid sleep;The flame ...
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 ...
AT THE DINNER TO THE PRESIDENT,BOSTON, JUNE 26, 1877How to address him? awkward, it is trueCall him "Great Father," as ...
WHILE in my simple gospel creedThat "God is Love" so plain I read,Shall dreams of heathen birth affrightMy pathway through ...
JUNE 7, 1877ANGEL of love, for every griefIts soothing balm thy mercy brings,For every pang its healing leaf,For homeless want, ...
CITY OF BOSTON, JUNE 1, 1865CHORAL: "LUTHER'S JUDGMENT HYMN."O THOU of soul and sense and breathThe ever-present Giver,Unto thy mighty ...
O GOD! in danger's darkest hour,In battle's deadliest field,Thy name has been our Nation's tower,Thy truth her help and shield.Our ...
PERHAPS too far in these considerate daysHas patience carried her submissive ways;Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek,To ...
THOU Gracious Power, whose mercy lendsThe light of home, the smile of friends,Our gathered flock thine arms infoldAs in the ...
GIVER of all that crowns our days,With grateful hearts we sing thy praise;Through deep and desert led by Thee,Our promised ...
FATHER, send on Earth againPeace and good-will to men;Yet, while the weary track of lifeLeads thy people through storm and ...
IN the little southern parlor of tbe house you may have seen With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward ...
NOT in the world of light alone, Where God has built his blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, ...
SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,-- Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She ...
FLAG of the heroes who left us their glory, Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame, Blazoned in song and ...
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