At The Banquet To The Chinese Embassy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUGUST 21, 1868BROTHERS, whom we may not reachThrough the veil of alien speech,Welcome! welcome! eyes can tellWhat the lips in ...
AUGUST 21, 1868BROTHERS, whom we may not reachThrough the veil of alien speech,Welcome! welcome! eyes can tellWhat the lips in ...
THAT age was older once than now,In spite of locks untimely shed,Or silvered on the youthful brow;That babes make love ...
DEAREST, a look is but a rayReflected in a certain way;A word, whatever tone it wear,Is but a trembling wave ...
TO J. F. CLARKEWHO is the shepherd sent to lead,Through pastures green, the Master's sheep?What guileless 'Israelite indeed'The folded flock ...
Now, men of the North! will you join in the strifeFor country, for freedom, for honor, for life?The giant grows ...
WHILE in my simple gospel creedThat "God is Love" so plain I read,Shall dreams of heathen birth affrightMy pathway through ...
LAND where the banners wave last in the sun,Blazoned with star-clusters, many in one,Floating o'er prairie and mountain and sea;Hark! ...
MUSIC HALL, DECEMBER 6, 1871Sung to the Russian national air by the children of the public schools.SHADOWED so long by ...
WE trust and fear, we question and believe,From life's dark threads a trembling faith to weave,Frail as the web that ...
THUS I lift the sash, so longShut against the flight of song;All too late for vain excuse,--Lo, my captive rhymes ...
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
NOT in the world of light alone, Where God has built his blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, ...
Oh, there are times When all this fret and tumult that we hear Do seem more stale than to the ...
COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by, The shining days when life ...
SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,-- Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She ...
How the mountains talked together, Looking down upon the weather, When they heard our friend had planned his Little trip ...
Life is real, life is earnest, And the shell is not its pen - "Egg thou art, and egg remainest" ...
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