The Banker’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
JUNE 8, 1881THREE paths there be where Learning's favored sons,Trained in the schools which hold her favored ones,Follow their several ...
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
WHAT ailed young Lucius? Art had vainly triedTo guess his ill, and found herself defied.The Augur plied his legendary skill;Useless; ...
PRECISELY. I see it. You all want to sayThat a tear is too sad and a laugh is too gay;You ...
O MY lost beauty!--hast thou folded quiteThy wings of morning lightBeyond those iron gatesWhere Life crowds hurrying to the haggard ...
READER--gentle--if so beSuch still live, and live for me,Will it please you to be toldWhat my tenscore pages hold?Here are ...
AND what shall be the song to-night,If song there needs must be?If every year that brings us hereMust steal an ...
"How many have gone?" was the question of oldEre Time our bright ring of its jewels bereft;Alas! for too often ...
THE folks, that on the first of MayWore winter coats and hose,Began to say, the first of June,"Good Lord! how ...
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 ...
THE minstrel of the classic layOf love and wine who singsStill found the fingers run astrayThat touched the rebel strings.Of ...
I BRING the simplest pledge of love,Friend of my earlier days;Mine is the hand without the glove,The heart-beat, not the ...
THE dinner-bell, the dinner-bellIs ringing loud and clear;Through hill and plain, through street and lane,It echoes far and near;From curtained ...
AFTER A LECTURE AT ALBANY'T WAS a vision of childhood that came with its dawn,Ere the curtain that covered life's ...
The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;Whatever vase the sacred drops may ...
WRITTEN AT SEAIF sometimes in the dark blue eye,Or in the deep red wine,Or soothed by gentlest melody,Still warms this ...
Not premeditatedTHE clock has struck noon; ere it thrice tell the hoursWe shall meet round the table that blushes with ...
WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER--(...)COME! fill a fresh bumper, for why should we goWhile the nectar (logwood) still reddens ...
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 ...
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