The Bells (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHEN o'er the street the morning peal is flungFrom yon tall belfry with the brazen tongue,Its wide vibrations, wafted by ...
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 ...
A PURITAN WAR SONGWHERE are you going, soldiers,With banner, gun, and sword?We 're marching South to CanaanTo battle for the ...
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 ...
JULY 6, 1865Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,Since half our battle 's won,A broadside for our Admiral!Load every crystal gunStand ...
"Purpureos spargam flores."THE wreath that star-crowned Shelley gaveIs lying on thy Roman grave,Yet on its turf young April setsHer store ...
PRELUDE TO "ILLUSTRATED POEMS"FULL well I know the frozen hand has comeThat smites the songs of grove and garden dumb,And ...
WAN-VISAGED thing! thy virgin leafTo me looks more than deadly pale,Unknowing what may stain thee yet,--A poem or a tale.Who ...
AT THE DINNER TO THE PRESIDENT,BOSTON, JUNE 26, 1877How to address him? awkward, it is trueCall him "Great Father," as ...
As Clemence! when I saw thee lastTrip down the Rue de Seine,And turning, when thy form had past,I said, "We ...
THE sun-browned girl, whose limbs reclineWhen noon her languid hand has laidHot on the green flakes of the pine,Beneath its ...
SWEET Mary, I have never breathedThe love it were in vain to name;Though round my heart a serpent wreathed,I smiled, ...
THE two proud sisters of the sea,In glory and in doom!--Well may the eternal waters beTheir broad, unsculptured tomb!The wind ...
FEBRUARY 16, 1874THE painter's and the poet's fameShed their twinned lustre round his name,To gild our story-teller's art,Where each in ...
"ONLY a housemaid!" She looked from the kitchen,--Neat was the kitchen and tidy was she;There at her window a sempstress ...
IN MEMORY OF A SON OF ARCHDEACON FARRARAFAR he sleeps whose name is graven here,Where loving hearts his early doom ...
I ENCHANTER of Erin, whose magic has bound us, Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim, Entranced while ...
SAY not the Poet dies! Though in the dust he lies, He cannot forfeit his melodious breath, Unsphered by envious ...
GRANDMOTHER's mother: her age, I guess, Thirteen summers, or something less; Girlish bust, but womanly air; Smooth, square forehead with ...
COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by, The shining days when life ...
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 ...
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
WHAT flower is this that greets the morn, Its hues from Heaven so freshly born? With burning star and flaming ...
HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? If there has, take him out, without making a noise. ...
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