Hymn At The Funeral Services Of Charles Sumner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
APRIL 29, 1874SUNG BY MALE VOICES TO A NATIONAL AIR OF HOLLANDONCE more, ye sacred towers,Your solemn dirges sound;Strew, loving ...
APRIL 29, 1874SUNG BY MALE VOICES TO A NATIONAL AIR OF HOLLANDONCE more, ye sacred towers,Your solemn dirges sound;Strew, loving ...
STRANGE! that one lightly whispered toneIs far, far sweeter unto me,Than all the sounds that kiss the earth,Or breathe along ...
SHE gathered at her slender waistThe beauteous robe she wore;Its folds a golden belt embraced,One rose-hued gem it bore.The girdle ...
THE two proud sisters of the sea,In glory and in doom!--Well may the eternal waters beTheir broad, unsculptured tomb!The wind ...
Sent to "The Philological Circle" of Florence for itsmeeting in commemoration of Dante, January 27, 1881,the anniversary of his first ...
AT THE WALCKER DINNER UPON THECOMPLETION OF THE GREAT ORGANFOR BOSTON MUSIC HALL IN 1863I ASKED three little maidens who ...
A HALF-RHYMED IMPROMPTU1865LIKE the tribes of Israel,Fed on quails and manna,Sherman and his glorious bandJourneyed through the rebel land,Fed from ...
"OLD HUNDRED"O LORD of Hosts! Almighty King!Behold the sacrifice we bringTo every arm thy strength impart,Thy spirit shed through every ...
THOU Gracious Power, whose mercy lendsThe light of home, the smile of friends,Our gathered flock thine arms infoldAs in the ...
FOR THE MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTSMEDICAL SOCIETY, 1859'T is sweet to fight our battles o'er,And crown with honest praiseThe gray ...
GIVER of all that crowns our days,With grateful hearts we sing thy praise;Through deep and desert led by Thee,Our promised ...
LORD of all being! throned afar,Thy glory flames from sun and star;Centre and soul of every sphere,Yet to each loving ...
WE trust and fear, we question and believe,From life's dark threads a trembling faith to weave,Frail as the web that ...
ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY1887FRIEND, whom thy fourscore winters leave more dearThan when life's roseate summer on thy cheekBurned in the ...
VEX not the Muse with idle prayers,--She will not hear thy call;She steals upon thee unawares,Or seeks thee not at ...
A TRIPLE health to Friendship, Science, Art,From heads and hands that own a common heart!Each in its turn the others(Oliver ...
WHEN evening's shadowy fingers foldThe flowers of every hue,Some shy, half-opened bud will holdIts drop of morning's dew.Sweeter with every ...
LADY, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn,Come thou with me to Love's enchanted bowerHigh overhead the trellised roses burn;Beneath thy ...
FROM the first gleam of morning to the grayOf peaceful evening, lo, a life unrolled!In woven pictures all its changes ...
Is thy name Mary, maiden fair?Such should, methinks, its music be;The sweetest name that mortals bearWere best befitting thee;And she ...
SLOW toiling upward from' the misty vale,I leave the bright enamelled zones below;No more for me their beauteous bloom shall ...
DANVERS, 1866BANKRUPT! our pockets inside out!Empty of words to speak his praises!Worcester and Webster up the spout!Dead broke of laudatory ...
FEBRUARY 16, 1874THE painter's and the poet's fameShed their twinned lustre round his name,To gild our story-teller's art,Where each in ...
Thoughtful in youth, but not austere in age;Calm, but not cold, and cheerful though a sage;Too true to flatter and ...
THE YOUNG GIRL'S POEMKISS mine eyelids, beauteous Morn,Blushing into life new-born!Lend me violets for my hair,And thy russet robe to ...
O Love Divine, that stooped to shareOur sharpest pang, our bitterest tear,On Thee we cast each earth-born care,We smile at ...
Yes, dear departed, cherished days,Could Memory's hand restoreYour morning light, your evening rays,From Time's gray urn once more,Then might this ...
THUS I lift the sash, so longShut against the flight of song;All too late for vain excuse,--Lo, my captive rhymes ...
I LIKE YOU Met I LOVE You, face to face;The path was narrow, and they could not pass.I LIKE YOU ...
"ONLY a housemaid!" She looked from the kitchen,--Neat was the kitchen and tidy was she;There at her window a sempstress ...
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