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Born in August 29, 1809 / Died in October 7, 1894 / United States / English

Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Too Young For Love

... June soon will come with lengthened day ...

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To the Portrait of "A Lady"

... I’m not averse to red and white, ...

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The Moral Bully

... And the laced high-lows which they call their boots, ...

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At The Banquet To the Japanese Embassy

... You 'd have heard--no, you would n't, because it was dumb ...

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To A Caged Lion

... Torn from thy pathless wilds to pace this narrow floor! ...

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Boston To Florence

... PROUD of her clustering spires, her new-built towers, ...

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Prologue

... The world's great masters, when you 're out of school,-- ...

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Rip Van Winkle. Canto I.

... Brandy,—­for colics,—­Pinkroot, death on worms,—­ ...

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Aunt Tabitha

... So I take a lad's arm,--just for safety, you know,-- ...

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The Stethoscope Song. A Professional Ballad

... They all made rhymes with “sighs” and “skies,” ...

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To The Poets Who Only Read And Listen

... We that have sung perchance may find ...

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The Old Player

... Canvas, or clouds,--the footlights, or the spheres,-- ...

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The Cambridge Churchyard

... Which breathed a sigh o’er other’s dust, ...

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Hymn At The Funeral Services Of Charles Sumner

... SUNG BY MALE VOICES TO A NATIONAL AIR OF HOLLAND ...

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James Russell Lowell

... 1819-1891 THOU shouldst have sung the swan-song for the choir ...