Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems on Friendship (75 Poems)
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Verses For After-Dinner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders and stars,Next Thursday is–bless me!–how hard it will be,If that cannibal president calls upon me! There is nothing on earth … Continue reading
To James Russell Lowell (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THIS is your month, the month of “perfect days,”Birds in full song and blossoms all ablaze.Nature herself your earliest welcome breathes,Spreads every leaflet, every bower inwreathes;Carpets her paths for your returning feet,Puts forth her best your coming steps to greet;And … Continue reading
On The Death Of President Garfield (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
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 a woe so vast! And whose the chartered claim to speakThe sacred grief where all have part,Where sorrow saddens … Continue reading
A Memorial tribute (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL,FEBRUARY 8, 1876, IN MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWE I. LEADER of armies, Israel’s God,Thy soldier’s fight is won!Master, whose lowly path he trod,Thy servant’s work is done! No voice is heard … Continue reading
My Annual (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of a tear?How long stir the echoes it wakened of old,While its strings were unbroken, untarnished its gold? Dear friends of … Continue reading
At The Banquet To the Japanese Embassy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUGUST 2, 1872 WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!The voice of the many sounds feebly through one;Ah! would ‘t were a voice of more musical tone,But the dog-star is here, and the song-birds have flown. And … Continue reading
The Meeting Of The Dryads (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
IT was not many centuries since,When, gathered on the moonlit green,Beneath the Tree of Liberty,A ring of weeping sprites was seen. The freshman’s lamp had long been dim,The voice of busy day was mute,And tortured Melody had ceasedHer sufferings on … Continue reading
At A Meeting Of Friends (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUGUST 29, 1859 I REMEMBER–why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?I fear I’m growing forgetful, as old folks do, you know;It must have been in ‘forty–I would say ‘thirty-nine–We talked this matter over, I and a … Continue reading
Our Banker (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
OLD TIME, in whose bank we deposit our notes,Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;He keeps all his customers still in arrearsBy lending them minutes and charging them years. The twelvemonth rolls round and we never forgetOn the … Continue reading
The Moral Bully (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
YON whey-faced brother, who delights to wearA weedy flux of ill-conditioned hair,Seems of the sort that in a crowded placeOne elbows freely into smallest space;A timid creature, lax of knee and hip,Whom small disturbance whitens round the lip;One of those … Continue reading
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