Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
While thus a mind humane, and wise, he shows,All-eloquent of truth his language flows.Youth, tho' depress'd, thro' all his form ...
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
ADDRESSED TOTHOMAS CLARKSON, ESQ.IN 1814,WHEN MANY ENGLISH ARRIVED AT PARIS, BUTREMAINED A VERY SHORT TIME.LOV'D ENGLAND ! now the narrow ...
Fellow compositorsand pressworkers!I, Chief PrinterFrank Steinman,having worked fifty-seven years at my trade,and served five yearsas presidentof the HollistonPrinter's Council,being of ...
Noel, our paths, in academic days,Lay far apart, though by one Mother bred,And with her noblest sons together fedOn food ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
Mesrob, standing against the Armenian centuries, You, rock of diamond, You, undiscoverable lighthouse of consciousness, Which sows flashes From the ...
NOW twice the spring, with flowrets gay,Hath 'broider'd o'er her mantle green,And twice the merry month of MayWith hawthorn deck'd ...
What crass, abysmal ignorance! Forlorn! Despite his looks, the man must be half-witted!They gasped for air; they gazed on him ...
WARM, generous and young in heart and brain,A wise, ripe scholar of the antique mould,Had he but chosen he might ...
I now delight In spite Of the might And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, ...
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The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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