Welcome To The Chicago Commercial Club (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
January 14, 1880CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse;One comfort we have--Cincinnati sounds worse;If we only were licensed to ...
January 14, 1880CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse;One comfort we have--Cincinnati sounds worse;If we only were licensed to ...
"A SPANISH GIRL IN REVERIE,"SHE twirled the string of golden beads,That round her neck was hung,---My grandsire's gift; the good ...
THE YOUNG GIRL'S POEMWHATEVER I do, and whatever I say,Aunt Tabitha tells me that is n't the way;When she was ...
WAN-VISAGED thing! thy virgin leafTo me looks more than deadly pale,Unknowing what may stain thee yet,--A poem or a tale.Who ...
THAT age was older once than now,In spite of locks untimely shed,Or silvered on the youthful brow;That babes make love ...
At the meeting of the New York Harvard Club,February 21, 1878."CHRISTO ET ECCLESLE." 1700To GOD'S ANOINTED AND HIS CHOSEN FLOCKSo ...
AT A DINNER GIVEN HIM ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY,DECEMBER 12, 1885With a bronze statuette of John of Bologna's Mercury,presented by ...
The stars are rolling in the sky,The earth rolls on below,And we can feel the rattling wheelRevolving as we go.Then ...
As Clemence! when I saw thee lastTrip down the Rue de Seine,And turning, when thy form had past,I said, "We ...
TO J. F. CLARKEWHO is the shepherd sent to lead,Through pastures green, the Master's sheep?What guileless 'Israelite indeed'The folded flock ...
THE dinner-bell, the dinner-bellIs ringing loud and clear;Through hill and plain, through street and lane,It echoes far and near;From curtained ...
Now, men of the North! will you join in the strifeFor country, for freedom, for honor, for life?The giant grows ...
PERHAPS too far in these considerate daysHas patience carried her submissive ways;Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek,To ...
THE two proud sisters of the sea,In glory and in doom!--Well may the eternal waters beTheir broad, unsculptured tomb!The wind ...
GIVER of all that crowns our days,With grateful hearts we sing thy praise;Through deep and desert led by Thee,Our promised ...
FATHER, send on Earth againPeace and good-will to men;Yet, while the weary track of lifeLeads thy people through storm and ...
THERE was a giant in time of old, A mighty one was he; He had a wife, but she was ...
Oh, there are times When all this fret and tumult that we hear Do seem more stale than to the ...
If all the trees in all the woods were men; And each and every blade of grass a pen; If ...
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 ...
SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,-- Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She ...
I WROTE some lines once on a time In wondrous merry mood, And thought, as usual, men would say They ...
FLAG of the heroes who left us their glory, Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame, Blazoned in song and ...
I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters ...
HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? If there has, take him out, without making a noise. ...
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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