Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
Preface.Hark, dying mortal, if the Sonnet proveA song of living and immortal love,'Tis then thy grand concern the theme to ...
IIn a far country, and a distant age,Ere sprites and fays had bade farewell to earth,A boy was born of ...
This extract from the Ramayana has been edited by M. Chezy, with a free translation into French prose by M. Bournouf, ...
Arguments and Encouragements to Gospel Ministers to avoid a Legal strain of Doctrine, and endeavour the Sinner's match with Christ ...
Only the Lowland tongue of Scotland mightRehearse this little tragedy aright;Let me attempt it with an English quill;And take, O ...
ARGUMENT.The action of the poem being suspended by night, Ossian takes the opportunity to relate his own actions at the ...
Weep!--for the wrath of God is over us!Weep!--for his arm is lifted to destroy!Famine hath thinned the land! in Autumn's ...
SCENE I. The Country.Enter ALBERT.Albert. O that the earth were empty, as when CainHad no perplexity to hide his head!Or ...
TANSILLO.Now begins the enthusiast to display the affections and uncover thewounds which are for a sign in his body, and ...
PUT off thy shoes, ere thou thy God dost greet,Thy ass, before thou sacrificest, bind —Wash, ere the altar thou ...
ALL, who wou'd ease and happiness obtain,And wish in health and wealth and peace to live,Must, whilst they in this ...
I Time gathers to my name; Along the ways wheredown my feet have passed I see the years with little triumph crowned, Exulting not ...
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
Our vows are heard betimes, and heaven takes careTo grant, before we can conclude the prayer;Preventing angels met it half ...
Sweetly the voice of long departed timeComes o'er the soul, and in its whispers bringsVisions of glory, mighty deeds sublime,And ...
The Believer's Principles concerning Faith and Sense.1. Of Faith and Sense natural.2. Of Faith and Sense spiritual.3. The harmony and ...
OH Earth! how fair thou art! With life, with mirth,With freshness, and with glory, teemest thou!Say, was the morn that ...
At the foot of the mountain heightWhere is perched Castel Cuille,When the apple, the plum, and the almond treeIn the ...
Once on a timeThere was a little boy: a master-mageBy virtue of a BookOf magic--O, so magical it filledHis life ...
The Believer's Principles, ConcerningI. Creation and Redemption.II. Law and Gospel.III. Justification and Sanctification.IV. Faith and Sense.V. Heaven and Earth.Chap. I.The Believer's ...
'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates ...
NOT far from Tyvy's banks and bayAn humble dwelling rose;Around its walls the woodbine twin'd,Encircled with the rose.The purple violet ...
Stopt by the storm, that long in sullen blackFrom the south-west stained its encroaching track,Haymakers, hustling from the rain to ...
INow Bioern, the son of Heriulf, had ill daysBecause the heart within him seethed with bloodThat would not be allayed ...
The hills have on their royal robes Of purple and of gold, And over their tops the autumn clouds In heaps are onward ...
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
And now it was evening.And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that ...
PHI BETA KAPPA ODEHARVARD UNIVERSITYJune 30, 1910IAll day long in the city's canyon-street, With its populous cliffs alive on either side, I ...
Should poverty, modest and clean, E'er please, when presented to view, Should cabin on brown heath, or green, Disclose aught engaging to you, Should ...
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