Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
YE that have faced the billows and the sprayOf good St. Botolph's island-studded bay,As from the gliding bark your eye ...
WINTER is past; the heart of Nature warmsBeneath the wrecks of unresisted storms;Doubtful at first, suspected more than seen,The southern ...
THIS is your month, the month of "perfect days,"Birds in full song and blossoms all ablaze.Nature herself your earliest welcome ...
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893HE rests from toil; the portals of the tombClose on the last of those ...
THE summer dawn is breakingOn Auburn's tangled bowers,The golden light is wakingOn Harvard's ancient towers;The sun is in the skyThat ...
DECEMBER 9, 1871ONE word to the guest we have gathered to greet!The echoes are longing that word to repeat,--It springs ...
Ye who yourselves of larger worth esteemThan common mortals, listen to my dream,and learn the lesson of life's cozening cheat,The ...
1819-1891THOU shouldst have sung the swan-song for the choirThat filled our groves with music till the dayLit the last hilltop ...
J. A.ONE memory trembles on our lips;It throbs in every breast;In tear-dimmed eyes, in mirth's eclipse,The shadow stands confessed.O silent ...
NAY, blame me not; I might have sparedYour patience many a trivial verse,Yet these my earlier welcome shared,So, let the ...
AUGUST 21, 1868BROTHERS, whom we may not reachThrough the veil of alien speech,Welcome! welcome! eyes can tellWhat the lips in ...
WHO PRESENTED ME WITH A SILVER LOVING CUPON THE TWENTY-NINTH OF AUGUST, M DCCC LXXXIX"WHO gave this cup?" The secret ...
THERE is no time like the old time, when you and I were young,When the buds of April blossomed, and ...
FAREWELL, for the bark has her breast to the tide,And the rough arms of Ocean are stretched for his bride;The ...
The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;Whatever vase the sacred drops may ...
NOT charity we ask,Nor yet thy gift refuse;Please thy light fancy with the easy taskOnly to look and choose.The little-heeded ...
FESTIVAL OF THE ALUMNI, 1857THE noon of summer sheds its rayOn Harvard's holy ground;The Matron calls, the sons obey,And gather ...
FROM the first gleam of morning to the grayOf peaceful evening, lo, a life unrolled!In woven pictures all its changes ...
I ENCHANTER of Erin, whose magic has bound us, Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim, Entranced while ...
GRANDMOTHER's mother: her age, I guess, Thirteen summers, or something less; Girlish bust, but womanly air; Smooth, square forehead with ...
"BRING me my broken harp," he said; "We both are wrecks,-- but as ye will,-- Though all its ringing tones ...
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