Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
How The Old Horse Won The Bet
... 1830, TO THE EDITORS OF THE HARVARD ADVOCATE, 1876 ...
First Verses
... They stand--they gaze, and check their headlong flight,-- ...
The Philosopher To His Love
... The rainbow, Heaven's own forehead's braid, ...
To John Greenleaf Whittier
... 1887 FRIEND, whom thy fourscore winters leave more dear ...
For The Meeting Of The National Sanitary Association
... The brands that scorch, the blades that shine, ...
J. D. R.
... THE friends that are, and friends that were, ...
Parson Turells Legacy
... "--Let me beg You'll look at a horse's hinder leg,-- ...
Humboldts Birthday
... In their rude grasp great thrones shall rock and fall, ...
A Sentiment Offered At The Dinner To H. I. H. The Prince Napoleon
... To stanch these wounds that vainly bleed,-- ...
Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre
... Could doff, like us, their knavery with their clothes, ...
The Exiles Secret
... Its dwarfed, pale flowers, that show their straggling heads, ...
The Archbishop And Gil Blas
... What! You think my memory's failing! Why, it's just as bright and clear, ...
The Promise
... To loveâs sweet day-star, that shall oâer thee burn ...
Hail, Columbia!
... CONSTITUTIONAL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT PHILADELPHIA, ...
A Song Of "Twenty-Nine"
... "You are fledged, and you must fly," ...
