The Treadmill Song (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
The stars are rolling in the sky,The earth rolls on below,And we can feel the rattling wheelRevolving as we go.Then ...
The stars are rolling in the sky,The earth rolls on below,And we can feel the rattling wheelRevolving as we go.Then ...
(by supposition)An Hymn set forth to be sung by the Great Assemblyat Newtown, Mo. 12. 1. 1636.[Written by OLIVER ...
DEAREST, a look is but a rayReflected in a certain way;A word, whatever tone it wear,Is but a trembling wave ...
No more the summer floweret charms,The leaves will soon be sere,And Autumn folds his jewelled armsAround the dying year;So, ere ...
As Clemence! when I saw thee lastTrip down the Rue de Seine,And turning, when thy form had past,I said, "We ...
THERE is no time like the old time, when you and I were young,When the buds of April blossomed, and ...
W. W. SWAINBEHOLD--not him we knew!This was the prison which his soul looked through,Tender, and brave, and true.His voice no ...
INTRODUCTION TO A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY DIFFERENT AUTHORSAN usher standing at the doorI show my white rosette;A smile of ...
1849-1861THE piping of our slender, peaceful reedsWhispers uncared for while the trumpets bray;Song is thin air; our hearts' exulting playBeats ...
TO J. F. CLARKEWHO is the shepherd sent to lead,Through pastures green, the Master's sheep?What guileless 'Israelite indeed'The folded flock ...
HIS TEMPTATIONNo fear lest praise should make us proud!We know how cheaply that is won;The idle homage of the crowdIs ...
'Qui vive?' The sentry's musket rings,The channelled bayonet gleams;High o'er him, like a raven's wingsThe broad tricolored banner flingsIts shadow, ...
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 ...
FAREWELL, for the bark has her breast to the tide,And the rough arms of Ocean are stretched for his bride;The ...
ONE country! Treason's writhing aspStruck madly at her girdle's clasp,And Hatred wrenched with might and mainTo rend its welded links ...
I HAVE come with my verses--I think I may claimIt is not the first time I have tried on the ...
Written for the dinner given to Charles DICKENSby the young men of Boston, February 1, 1842The stars their early vigils ...
Now, men of the North! will you join in the strifeFor country, for freedom, for honor, for life?The giant grows ...
THE sun-browned girl, whose limbs reclineWhen noon her languid hand has laidHot on the green flakes of the pine,Beneath its ...
OH! I did love her dearly,And gave her toys and rings,And I thought she meant sincerely,When she took my pretty ...
WHILE in my simple gospel creedThat "God is Love" so plain I read,Shall dreams of heathen birth affrightMy pathway through ...
DEAR friends, left darkling in the long eclipseThat veils the noonday,--you whose finger-tipsA meaning in these ridgy leaves can findWhere ...
For a Temperance dinner to which ladies wereInvited (new York Mercantile library Association,November, 1842)A health to dear woman! She bids ...
A SENTIMENTThis "sentiment" was read on the same occasion as the "Family Record,"which immediately follows it. The latter poem is ...
SUNG AT THE 'JUBILEE,' JUNE 15, 1869,TO THE MUSIC OF SELLER'S 'AMERICAN HYMN'ANGEL of Peace, thou hast wandered too long!Spread ...
The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;Whatever vase the sacred drops may ...
TIME is a thief who leaves his tools behind him;He comes by night, he vanishes at dawn;We track his footsteps, ...
LET greener lands and bluer skies,If such the wide earth shows,With fairer cheeks and brighter eyes,Match us the star and ...
Poor conquered monarch! though that haughty glanceStill speaks thy courage unsubdued by time,And in the grandeur of thy sullen treadLives ...
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