The Last Prophecy Of Cassandra (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE sun is fading in the skies,And evening shades are gathering fast;Fair city, ere that sun shall rise,Thy night hath ...
THE sun is fading in the skies,And evening shades are gathering fast;Fair city, ere that sun shall rise,Thy night hath ...
YES, lady! I can ne'er forget,That once in other years we met;Thy memory may perchance recallA festal eve, a rose-wreathed ...
J. A.ONE memory trembles on our lips;It throbs in every breast;In tear-dimmed eyes, in mirth's eclipse,The shadow stands confessed.O silent ...
PROUDLY, beneath her glittering dome,Our three-hilled city greets the morn;Here Freedom found her virgin home,--The Bethlehem where her babe was ...
JULY 6, 1865Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,Since half our battle 's won,A broadside for our Admiral!Load every crystal gunStand ...
You 'll believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise,With a welcome like this in your darling old ...
THE glory has passed from the goldenrod's plume,The purple-hued asters still linger in bloomThe birch is bright yellow, the sumachs ...
PRELUDE TO "ILLUSTRATED POEMS"FULL well I know the frozen hand has comeThat smites the songs of grove and garden dumb,And ...
At the meeting of the New York Harvard Club,February 21, 1878."CHRISTO ET ECCLESLE." 1700To GOD'S ANOINTED AND HIS CHOSEN FLOCKSo ...
As Clemence! when I saw thee lastTrip down the Rue de Seine,And turning, when thy form had past,I said, "We ...
1849-1861THE piping of our slender, peaceful reedsWhispers uncared for while the trumpets bray;Song is thin air; our hearts' exulting playBeats ...
FAREWELL, for the bark has her breast to the tide,And the rough arms of Ocean are stretched for his bride;The ...
TIME is a thief who leaves his tools behind him;He comes by night, he vanishes at dawn;We track his footsteps, ...
SUNG BY THE CONGREGATION TO THE TUNE OFTALLIS'S EVENING HYMNO'ERSHADOWED by the walls that climb,Piled up in air by living ...
A HALF-RHYMED IMPROMPTU1865LIKE the tribes of Israel,Fed on quails and manna,Sherman and his glorious bandJourneyed through the rebel land,Fed from ...
THOU Gracious Power, whose mercy lendsThe light of home, the smile of friends,Our gathered flock thine arms infoldAs in the ...
FOR THE MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTSMEDICAL SOCIETY, 1859'T is sweet to fight our battles o'er,And crown with honest praiseThe gray ...
VEX not the Muse with idle prayers,--She will not hear thy call;She steals upon thee unawares,Or seeks thee not at ...
ALONE, beneath the darkened sky,With saddened heart and unstrung lyre,I heap the spoils of years gone by,And leave them with ...
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 ...
THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,-- The venturous bark that flings On the ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories