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 ...
OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIRA MATHEMATICAL STORYFACTS respecting an old arm-chair.At Cambridge. Is kept in the College there.Seems but little ...
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
READ AT THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARYIs it a weanling's weakness for the pastThat in the stormy, rebel-breeding town,Swept clean of ...
ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, JUNE 14, 1882I. AT THE SUMMITSISTER, we bid you welcome,--we who standOn the high table-land;We who ...
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 ...
SHE has gone,— she has left us in passion and pride,— Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She has torn ...
OLD TIME, in whose bank we deposit our notes,Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;He keeps all his ...
PHI BETA KAPPA, JUNE 26, 1873THE Caliph ordered up his cook,And, scowling with a fearful lookThat meant,--We stand no gammon,--'To-morrow, ...
DEAR GOVERNOR, if my skiff might braveThe winds that lift the ocean wave,The mountain stream that loops and swervesThrough my ...
WHILE far along the eastern skyI saw the flags of Havoc fly,As if his forces would assaultThe sovereign of the ...
HE sleeps not here; in hope and prayerHis wandering flock had gone before,But he, the shepherd, might not shareTheir sorrows ...
As the voice of the watch to the mariner's dream,As the footstep of Spring on the ice-girdled stream,There comes a ...
NAY, blame me not; I might have sparedYour patience many a trivial verse,Yet these my earlier welcome shared,So, let the ...
READ AT THE MEETING OF THE HARVARD ALUMNIASSOCIATION, JUNE 25, 1873THE fount the Spaniard sought in vainThrough all the land ...
WHEN Advent dawns with lessening days,While earth awaits the angels' hymn;When bare as branching coral swaysIn whistling winds each leafless ...
DEAREST, a look is but a rayReflected in a certain way;A word, whatever tone it wear,Is but a trembling wave ...
HIS TEMPTATIONNo fear lest praise should make us proud!We know how cheaply that is won;The idle homage of the crowdIs ...
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! ...
Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming,Snatched from the altars of insolent foes,Burning with star-fires, but never ...
LORD of all being! throned afar,Thy glory flames from sun and star;Centre and soul of every sphere,Yet to each loving ...
SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,-- Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She ...
WHERE is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Not unfamiliar to my ear his name, Nor yet unknown to many ...
OH for one hour of youthful joy! Give back my twentieth spring! I'd rather laugh, a bright-haired boy, Than reign, ...
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