Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
'Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembersAll the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried ...
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
I LIKE, at times, to hear the steeples' chimesWith sober thoughts impressively that mingle;But sometimes, too, I rather like--don't you?--To ...
A sick man's chamber, though it often boastThe grateful presence of a literal toast,Can hardly claim, amidst its various wealth,The ...
DECEMBER 15, 1874I SUPPOSE it's myself that you're making allusion toAnd bringing the sense of dismay and confusion to.Of course ...
READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL,FEBRUARY 8, 1876, IN MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWEI.LEADER of armies, Israel's ...
BY THE PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF DEAD AND LIVE LANGUAGESPHI BETA KAPPA.--CAMBRIDGE, 1867You bid me sing,--can I forgetThe classic ode of ...
TO J. L. MOTLEYYES, we knew we must lose him,--though friendship may claimTo blend her green leaves with the laurels ...
ANDREW, HINGHAM, OCTOBER 7, 1875BEHOLD the shape our eyes have known!It lives once more in changeless stone;So looked in mortal ...
APRIL 27,1861EIGHTY years have passed, and more,Since under the brave old treeOur fathers gathered in arms, and sworeThey would follow ...
APRIL 29, 1874SUNG BY MALE VOICES TO A NATIONAL AIR OF HOLLANDONCE more, ye sacred towers,Your solemn dirges sound;Strew, loving ...
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