America To Russia (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUGUST 5, 1866THOUGH watery deserts hold apartThe worlds of East and West,Still beats the selfsame human heartIn each proud Nation's ...
AUGUST 5, 1866THOUGH watery deserts hold apartThe worlds of East and West,Still beats the selfsame human heartIn each proud Nation's ...
AH, here it is! the sliding railThat marks the old remembered spot,--The gap that struck our school-boy trail,--The crooked path ...
THERE is no time like the old time, when you and I were young,When the buds of April blossomed, and ...
W. W. SWAINBEHOLD--not him we knew!This was the prison which his soul looked through,Tender, and brave, and true.His voice no ...
HIS TEMPTATIONNo fear lest praise should make us proud!We know how cheaply that is won;The idle homage of the crowdIs ...
OH! I did love her dearly,And gave her toys and rings,And I thought she meant sincerely,When she took my pretty ...
WHILE in my simple gospel creedThat "God is Love" so plain I read,Shall dreams of heathen birth affrightMy pathway through ...
SUNG AT THE 'JUBILEE,' JUNE 15, 1869,TO THE MUSIC OF SELLER'S 'AMERICAN HYMN'ANGEL of Peace, thou hast wandered too long!Spread ...
LET greener lands and bluer skies,If such the wide earth shows,With fairer cheeks and brighter eyes,Match us the star and ...
WRITTEN AT SEAIF sometimes in the dark blue eye,Or in the deep red wine,Or soothed by gentlest melody,Still warms this ...
SWEET Mary, I have never breathedThe love it were in vain to name;Though round my heart a serpent wreathed,I smiled, ...
JUNE 7, 1877ANGEL of love, for every griefIts soothing balm thy mercy brings,For every pang its healing leaf,For homeless want, ...
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 ...
WHAT is a poet's love?--To write a girl a sonnet,To get a ring, or some such thing,And fustianize upon it.What ...
TO J. R. LOWELLWE will not speak of years to-night,--For what have years to bringBut larger floods of love and ...
STRANGE! that one lightly whispered toneIs far, far sweeter unto me,Than all the sounds that kiss the earth,Or breathe along ...
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 ...
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
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 ...
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
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