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 ...
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
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 ...
THIS is our place of meeting; oppositeThat towered and pillared building: look at it;King's Chapel in the Second George's day,Rebellion ...
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamedIn my slight verse such holy things are named--Of Mary's secret hours of hidden joy,Silent, ...
WHAT ailed young Lucius? Art had vainly triedTo guess his ill, and found herself defied.The Augur plied his legendary skill;Useless; ...
I LIKE, at times, to hear the steeples' chimesWith sober thoughts impressively that mingle;But sometimes, too, I rather like--don't you?--To ...
A sick man's chamber, though it often boastThe grateful presence of a literal toast,Can hardly claim, amidst its various wealth,The ...
YES! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast,And the thought comes strangely o'er me, who will live ...
You know "The Teacups," that congenial setWhich round the Teapot you have often met;The grave DICTATOR, him you knew of ...
THE DIVINE VOICEGo seek thine earth-born sisters,--thus the VoiceThat all obey,--the sad and silent three;These only, while the hosts of ...
PRECISELY. I see it. You all want to sayThat a tear is too sad and a laugh is too gay;You ...
PRESENTED BY GEORGE W. CHILDS, OF PHILADELPHIAWELCOME, thrice welcome is thy silvery gleam,Thou long-imprisoned stream!Welcome the tinkle of thy crystal ...
A PROLOGUE? Well, of course the ladies know,--I have my doubts. No matter,--here we go!What is a Prologue? Let our ...
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 ...
IT is a pity and a shame--alas! alas! I know it is,To tread the trodden grapes again, but so it ...
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
THIS is your month, the month of "perfect days,"Birds in full song and blossoms all ablaze.Nature herself your earliest welcome ...
I.FALLEN with autumn's falling leafEre yet his summer's noon was past,Our friend, our guide, our trusted chief,--What words can match ...
READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL,FEBRUARY 8, 1876, IN MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWEI.LEADER of armies, Israel's ...
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
AUGUST 2, 1872WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!The voice of the many sounds feebly through one;Ah! ...
IT was not many centuries since,When, gathered on the moonlit green,Beneath the Tree of Liberty,A ring of weeping sprites was ...
AUGUST 29, 1859I REMEMBER--why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?I fear I'm growing forgetful, as old ...
OLD TIME, in whose bank we deposit our notes,Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;He keeps all his ...
YON whey-faced brother, who delights to wearA weedy flux of ill-conditioned hair,Seems of the sort that in a crowded placeOne ...
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