Musa (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
O MY lost beauty!--hast thou folded quiteThy wings of morning lightBeyond those iron gatesWhere Life crowds hurrying to the haggard ...
O MY lost beauty!--hast thou folded quiteThy wings of morning lightBeyond those iron gatesWhere Life crowds hurrying to the haggard ...
FOR THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THESETTLEMENT OF CAMBRIDGE, MASS., DECEMBER 28, 1880YOUR home was mine,--kind Nature's gift;My love no years ...
Breakfast at the Century Club, New York, May, 1879.SUCH kindness! the scowl of a cynic would soften,His pulse beat its ...
JANUARY 18, 1856WHEN life hath run its largest roundOf toil and triumph, joy and woe,How brief a storied page is ...
READER--gentle--if so beSuch still live, and live for me,Will it please you to be toldWhat my tenscore pages hold?Here are ...
Ye who yourselves of larger worth esteemThan common mortals, listen to my dream,and learn the lesson of life's cozening cheat,The ...
I GIVE you the health of the oldest friendThat, short of eternity, earth can lend,--A friend so faithful and tried ...
1860WHAT makes the Healing Art divine?The bitter drug we buy and sell,The brands that scorch, the blades that shine,The scars ...
H. W. L.PRIDE of the sister realm so long our own,We claim with her that spotless fame of thine,White as ...
THE dirge is played, the throbbing death-peal rung,The sad-voiced requiem sung;On each white urn where memory dwellsThe wreath of rustling ...
No mystic charm, no mortal art,Can bid our loved companions stay;The bands that clasp them to our heartSnap in death's ...
As through the forest, disarrayedBy chill November, late I strayed,A lonely minstrel of the woodWas singing to the solitudeI loved ...
DEAR GOVERNOR, if my skiff might braveThe winds that lift the ocean wave,The mountain stream that loops and swervesThrough my ...
THOUGH young no more, we still would dreamOf beauty's dear deluding wiles;The leagues of life to graybeards seemShorter than boyhood's ...
THE minstrel of the classic layOf love and wine who singsStill found the fingers run astrayThat touched the rebel strings.Of ...
WAN-VISAGED thing! thy virgin leafTo me looks more than deadly pale,Unknowing what may stain thee yet,--A poem or a tale.Who ...
I BRING the simplest pledge of love,Friend of my earlier days;Mine is the hand without the glove,The heart-beat, not the ...
I 'm ashamed,--that 's the fact,--it 's a pitiful case,--Won't any kind classmate get up in my place?Just remember how ...
Now, men of the North! will you join in the strifeFor country, for freedom, for honor, for life?The giant grows ...
WHILE in my simple gospel creedThat "God is Love" so plain I read,Shall dreams of heathen birth affrightMy pathway through ...
WRITTEN AT SEAIF sometimes in the dark blue eye,Or in the deep red wine,Or soothed by gentlest melody,Still warms this ...
Not premeditatedTHE clock has struck noon; ere it thrice tell the hoursWe shall meet round the table that blushes with ...
THE seed that wasteful autumn castTo waver on its stormy blast,Long o'er the wintry desert tost,Its living germ has never ...
SUNG BY THE CONGREGATION TO THE TUNE OFTALLIS'S EVENING HYMNO'ERSHADOWED by the walls that climb,Piled up in air by living ...
FOR THE MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTSMEDICAL SOCIETY, 1859'T is sweet to fight our battles o'er,And crown with honest praiseThe gray ...
LORD of all being! throned afar,Thy glory flames from sun and star;Centre and soul of every sphere,Yet to each loving ...
ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY1887FRIEND, whom thy fourscore winters leave more dearThan when life's roseate summer on thy cheekBurned in the ...
LADY, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn,Come thou with me to Love's enchanted bowerHigh overhead the trellised roses burn;Beneath thy ...
FROM the first gleam of morning to the grayOf peaceful evening, lo, a life unrolled!In woven pictures all its changes ...
FATHER, send on Earth againPeace and good-will to men;Yet, while the weary track of lifeLeads thy people through storm and ...
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