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 ...
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
THE curtain rose; in thunders long and loudThe galleries rung; the veteran actor bowed.In flaming line the telltales of the ...
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 21, 1865FOUR summers coined their golden light in leaves,Four wasteful autumns flung them to the gale,Four winters wore ...
READ AT THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARYIs it a weanling's weakness for the pastThat in the stormy, rebel-breeding town,Swept clean of ...
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 ...
ANNIVERSARY OF THE BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,OCTOBER 4, 1849CLEAR the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam!Lo! on he comes, behind ...
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869BONAPARTE, AUGUST 15, 1769.-HUMBOLDT, SEPTEMBER 14, 1769ERE yet the warning chimes of midnight sound,Set back the ...
September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893HE rests from toil; the portals of the tombClose on the last of those ...
BRAVE singer of the coming time,Sweet minstrel of the joyous present,Crowned with the noblest wreath of rhyme,The holly-leaf of Ayrshire's ...
THE FIRST VERSE OF THE SONGBY JOSEPH HOPKINSON "HAIL, Columbia! Happy land! Hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band, Who fought and bled in Freedom's ...
December 17, l807 - September 7, 1892THOU, too, hast left us. While with heads bowed low,And sorrowing hearts, we mourned ...
1630ALL overgrown with bush and fern,And straggling clumps of tangled trees,With trunks that lean and boughs that turn,Bent eastward by ...
AT THE REVERE HOUSE,SEPTEMBER 25,1861THE land of sunshine and of song!Her name your hearts divine;To her the banquet's vows belongWhose ...
JULY 6, 1865Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,Since half our battle 's won,A broadside for our Admiral!Load every crystal gunStand ...
AN APPEALLISTEN, young heroes! your country is calling!Time strikes the hour for the brave and the true!Now, while the foremost ...
1849-1861THE piping of our slender, peaceful reedsWhispers uncared for while the trumpets bray;Song is thin air; our hearts' exulting playBeats ...
LAND where the banners wave last in the sun,Blazoned with star-clusters, many in one,Floating o'er prairie and mountain and sea;Hark! ...
FLAG of the heroes who left us their glory, Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame, Blazoned in song and ...
WHAT flower is this that greets the morn, Its hues from Heaven so freshly born? With burning star and flaming ...
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