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 ...
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
AN ACADEMIC POEM1829-1879Read at the Commencement Dinner of the Alumni of HarvardUniversity, June 25, 1879.WHILE fond, sad memories all around ...
AND can it be you've found a placeWithin this consecrated space,That makes so fine a show,For one of Rip Van ...
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
IT is a pity and a shame--alas! alas! I know it is,To tread the trodden grapes again, but so it ...
YON whey-faced brother, who delights to wearA weedy flux of ill-conditioned hair,Seems of the sort that in a crowded placeOne ...
ON HIS RETURN FROM SOUTH AMERICAAFTER FIFTEEN YEARS DEVOTED TO CATALOGUING THESTARS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHEREONCE more Orion and the ...
THE seed that wasteful autumn castTo waver on its stormy blast,Long o'er the wintry desert tost,Its living germ has never ...
I LIKE YOU Met I LOVE You, face to face;The path was narrow, and they could not pass.I LIKE YOU ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
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