The Last Survivor (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
YES! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast,And the thought comes strangely o'er me, who will live ...
YES! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast,And the thought comes strangely o'er me, who will live ...
You know "The Teacups," that congenial setWhich round the Teapot you have often met;The grave DICTATOR, him you knew of ...
AND can it be you've found a placeWithin this consecrated space,That makes so fine a show,For one of Rip Van ...
YET in the darksome crypt I left so late,Whose only altar is its rusted grate,(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
THE DIVINE VOICEGo seek thine earth-born sisters,--thus the VoiceThat all obey,--the sad and silent three;These only, while the hosts of ...
NOT bed-time yet! The night-winds blow,The stars are out,--full well we knowThe nurse is on the stair,With hand of ice ...
"Will I come?" That is pleasant! I beg to inquireIf the gun that I carry has ever missed fire?And which ...
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 21, 1865FOUR summers coined their golden light in leaves,Four wasteful autumns flung them to the gale,Four winters wore ...
A BALLADIT was the stalwart butcher man,That knit his swarthy brow,And said the gentle Pig must die,And sealed it with ...
NOVEMBER 3, 1864O EVEN-HANDED Nature! we confessThis life that men so honor, love, and blessHas filled thine olden measure. Not ...
Our ancient church! its lowly tower,Beneath the loftier spire,Is shadowed when the sunset hourClothes the tall shaft in fire;It sinks ...
FOR THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONAT NEW YORK, MAY 5, 1853I hold a letter in my hand,(Oliver Wendell ...
THERE was a young man in Boston town,He bought him a stethoscope nice and new,All mounted and finished and polished ...
PRECISELY. I see it. You all want to sayThat a tear is too sad and a laugh is too gay;You ...
WHO of all statesmen is his country's pride,Her councils' prompter and her leaders' guide?He speaks; the nation holds its breath ...
DECEMBER 15, 1874I SUPPOSE it's myself that you're making allusion toAnd bringing the sense of dismay and confusion to.Of course ...
PRESENTED BY GEORGE W. CHILDS, OF PHILADELPHIAWELCOME, thrice welcome is thy silvery gleam,Thou long-imprisoned stream!Welcome the tinkle of thy crystal ...
I HOLD a letter in my hand,-A flattering letter, more's the pity,-By some contriving junto planned,And signed per order of ...
Read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society.No! never such a draught was pouredSince Hebe served with nectarThe bright ...
COME, spread your wings, as I spread mine,And leave the crowded hallFor where the eyes of twilight shineO'er evening's western ...
A PROLOGUE? Well, of course the ladies know,--I have my doubts. No matter,--here we go!What is a Prologue? Let our ...
This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times,Of joyous days and jolly nights, and merry Christmas ...
A MODERNIZED VERSIONI DON'T think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray,But so are many young folks; I ...
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
1862'T is midnight: through my troubled dreamLoud wails the tempest's cry;Before the gale, with tattered sail,A ship goes plunging by.What ...
WINTER is past; the heart of Nature warmsBeneath the wrecks of unresisted storms;Doubtful at first, suspected more than seen,The southern ...
IT is a pity and a shame--alas! alas! I know it is,To tread the trodden grapes again, but so it ...
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
READ AT THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARYIs it a weanling's weakness for the pastThat in the stormy, rebel-breeding town,Swept clean of ...
ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, JUNE 14, 1882I. AT THE SUMMITSISTER, we bid you welcome,--we who standOn the high table-land;We who ...
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