Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
A sick man's chamber, though it often boastThe grateful presence of a literal toast,Can hardly claim, amidst its various wealth,The ...
READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL,FEBRUARY 8, 1876, IN MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWEI.LEADER of armies, Israel's ...
JULY 31, 1865WHEN treason first began the strifeThat crimsoned sea and shore,The Nation poured her hoarded lifeOn Freedom's threshing-floor;From field ...
1860WHAT makes the Healing Art divine?The bitter drug we buy and sell,The brands that scorch, the blades that shine,The scars ...
THE sun is fading in the skies,And evening shades are gathering fast;Fair city, ere that sun shall rise,Thy night hath ...
BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE, MAY 27, 1868OUR Poet, who has taught the Western breezeTo waft his songs before him ...
TIME is a thief who leaves his tools behind him;He comes by night, he vanishes at dawn;We track his footsteps, ...
NOT charity we ask,Nor yet thy gift refuse;Please thy light fancy with the easy taskOnly to look and choose.The little-heeded ...
ANDREW, HINGHAM, OCTOBER 7, 1875BEHOLD the shape our eyes have known!It lives once more in changeless stone;So looked in mortal ...
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 ...
Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming,Snatched from the altars of insolent foes,Burning with star-fires, but never ...
TO J. R. LOWELLWE will not speak of years to-night,--For what have years to bringBut larger floods of love and ...
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 ...
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
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