The School-Boy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
'Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembersAll the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried ...
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamedIn my slight verse such holy things are named--Of Mary's secret hours of hidden joy,Silent, ...
ANGEL of Death! extend thy silent reign!Stretch thy dark sceptre o'er this new domainNo sable car along the winding roadHas ...
A sick man's chamber, though it often boastThe grateful presence of a literal toast,Can hardly claim, amidst its various wealth,The ...
IT may be, yes, it must be, Time that bringsAn end to mortal things,That sends the beggar Winter in the ...
YES! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast,And the thought comes strangely o'er me, who will live ...
PRESENTED BY GEORGE W. CHILDS, OF PHILADELPHIAWELCOME, thrice welcome is thy silvery gleam,Thou long-imprisoned stream!Welcome the tinkle of thy crystal ...
I HOLD a letter in my hand,-A flattering letter, more's the pity,-By some contriving junto planned,And signed per order of ...
Read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society.No! never such a draught was pouredSince Hebe served with nectarThe bright ...
WINTER is past; the heart of Nature warmsBeneath the wrecks of unresisted storms;Doubtful at first, suspected more than seen,The southern ...
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
AUGUST 2, 1872WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!The voice of the many sounds feebly through one;Ah! ...
AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUEThe first messages received through the submarine cablewere sent by an electrical expert, a mysterious personagewho signed himself ...
IT was not many centuries since,When, gathered on the moonlit green,Beneath the Tree of Liberty,A ring of weeping sprites was ...
O MY lost beauty!--hast thou folded quiteThy wings of morning lightBeyond those iron gatesWhere Life crowds hurrying to the haggard ...
PHI BETA KAPPA, JUNE 26, 1873THE Caliph ordered up his cook,And, scowling with a fearful lookThat meant,--We stand no gammon,--'To-morrow, ...
I PRAY thee by the soul of her that bore thee,By thine own sister's spirit I implore thee,Deal gently with ...
Slowly the mist o'er the meadow was creeping,Bright on the dewy buds glistened the sun,When from his couch, while his ...
WHEN o'er the street the morning peal is flungFrom yon tall belfry with the brazen tongue,Its wide vibrations, wafted by ...
No mystic charm, no mortal art,Can bid our loved companions stay;The bands that clasp them to our heartSnap in death's ...
1630ALL overgrown with bush and fern,And straggling clumps of tangled trees,With trunks that lean and boughs that turn,Bent eastward by ...
THOUGH young no more, we still would dreamOf beauty's dear deluding wiles;The leagues of life to graybeards seemShorter than boyhood's ...
READ AT THE MEETING OF THE HARVARD ALUMNIASSOCIATION, JUNE 25, 1873THE fount the Spaniard sought in vainThrough all the land ...
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 ...
You 'll believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise,With a welcome like this in your darling old ...
THE feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms,On some tall lighthouse dash their little forms,And the rude granite scatters for their ...
At the meeting of the New York Harvard Club,February 21, 1878."CHRISTO ET ECCLESLE." 1700To GOD'S ANOINTED AND HIS CHOSEN FLOCKSo ...
A LOVELY show for eyes to seeI looked upon this morning,--A bright-hued, feathered companyOf nature's own adorning;But ah! those minstrels ...
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