Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
La Maison DOr
... (BAR HARBOR) FROM this fair home behold on either side ...
Hymn After The Emancipation Proclamation
... Break in their grasp the shield and sword, ...
In Vita Minerva
... She parts the whispering leaves of thought ...
For The Centennial Dinner
... See! The joiner, the shipwright, the smith from his forge, ...
Song. For a Temperance Dinner
... It is written on crimson,âÂits letters are pearls,â ...
Poem Read At The Dinner Given To The Author By The Medical Profession Of The City Of New York, April
... Smiles on the simple querist, and replies: "When from a goose you've taken legs and breast, ...
Hymn Written For The Great Central Fair In Philadelphia, 1864
... Leads thy people through storm and strife, ...
Our Sweet Singer
... In tear-dimmed eyes, in mirth's eclipse, ...
Mare Rubrum
... And here those cherished forms have strayed ...
A Portrait
... That wisdomâs lips seemed borrowing friendshipâs heart ...
A Good Time Going!
... In words of peace the young world's story,-- ...
The Last Look
... Close by those mounds which hold his loved, his own,-- ...
The Dying Seneca
... And spurned the wreaths themselves had strown ...
Album Verses
... That some turn white as sea-bleached shells, ...
To A Portrait Of "A Gentleman"
... She wept,--and breathed a trembling prayer ...
