The Fountain Of Youth (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
READ AT THE MEETING OF THE HARVARD ALUMNIASSOCIATION, JUNE 25, 1873THE fount the Spaniard sought in vainThrough all the land ...
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 ...
AN APPEALLISTEN, young heroes! your country is calling!Time strikes the hour for the brave and the true!Now, while the foremost ...
AS on the gauzy wings of fancy flying From some far orb I track our watery sphere,Home of the struggling, suffering, ...
AUGUST 5, 1866THOUGH watery deserts hold apartThe worlds of East and West,Still beats the selfsame human heartIn each proud Nation's ...
HIS TEMPTATIONNo fear lest praise should make us proud!We know how cheaply that is won;The idle homage of the crowdIs ...
Now, men of the North! will you join in the strifeFor country, for freedom, for honor, for life?The giant grows ...
SUNG AT THE 'JUBILEE,' JUNE 15, 1869,TO THE MUSIC OF SELLER'S 'AMERICAN HYMN'ANGEL of Peace, thou hast wandered too long!Spread ...
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 4, 1876BRIGHT on the banners of lily and roseLo! the last sun of our century sets!Wreathe the black ...
O GOD! in danger's darkest hour,In battle's deadliest field,Thy name has been our Nation's tower,Thy truth her help and shield.Our ...
WHY linger round the sunken wrecksWhere old Armadas found their graves?Why slumber on the sleepy decksWhile foam and clash the ...
APRIL 27,1861EIGHTY years have passed, and more,Since under the brave old treeOur fathers gathered in arms, and sworeThey would follow ...
"DUNDEE"FATHER of Mercies, Heavenly Friend,We seek thy gracious throne;To Thee our faltering prayers ascend,Our fainting hearts are known.From blasts that ...
TO J. R. LOWELLWE will not speak of years to-night,--For what have years to bringBut larger floods of love and ...
"OLD HUNDRED"O LORD of Hosts! Almighty King!Behold the sacrifice we bringTo every arm thy strength impart,Thy spirit shed through every ...
THOU Gracious Power, whose mercy lendsThe light of home, the smile of friends,Our gathered flock thine arms infoldAs in the ...
SLOW toiling upward from' the misty vale,I leave the bright enamelled zones below;No more for me their beauteous bloom shall ...
(BAR HARBOR)FROM this fair home behold on either sideThe restful mountains or the restless seaSo the warm sheltering walls of ...
SEXTON! Martha's dead and gone; Toll the bell! toll the bell! Her weary hands their labor cease; Good night, poor ...
GRANDMOTHER's mother: her age, I guess, Thirteen summers, or something less; Girlish bust, but womanly air; Smooth, square forehead 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 ...
HER hands are cold; her face is white; No more her pulses come and go; Her eyes are shut to ...
How the mountains talked together, Looking down upon the weather, When they heard our friend had planned his Little trip ...
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see ...
Life is real, life is earnest, And the shell is not its pen - "Egg thou art, and egg remainest" ...
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