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I had a vision in my dreams ; — I saw a row of twenty beams ; From every beam a rope was hung, In every rope a lover swung ; I asked the hue of every eye That bade each luckless lover die ; Ten shadowy lips said, heavenly blue, ...
I had a vision in my dreams ; — I saw a row of twenty beams ; From every beam a rope was hung, In every rope a lover swung ; I asked the hue of every eye That bade each luckless lover die ; Ten shadowy lips said, heavenly blue, ...
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And Heaven had spared to me To see one sad, ungathered rose On my ancestral tree. REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN I Saw the curl of his waving lash, And the glance of his knowing eye, And I knew that he thought he was cutting a dash, ...
And Heaven had spared to me To see one sad, ungathered rose On my ancestral tree. REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN I Saw the curl of his waving lash, And the glance of his knowing eye, And I knew that he thought he was cutting a dash, ...
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I keep them like a lock or leaf That some dear girl has given ; Frail record of an hour, as brief As sunset clouds in heaven, But spreading purple twilight still High over memory's shadowed hill. They lie upon my pathway bleak; ...
I keep them like a lock or leaf That some dear girl has given ; Frail record of an hour, as brief As sunset clouds in heaven, But spreading purple twilight still High over memory's shadowed hill. They lie upon my pathway bleak; ...
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Thus Heaven, repeating its material plan, Arched over all the rainbow mind of man ; But he who, blind to universal laws, Sees but effects, unconscious of their cause, — Believes each image in itself is bright, Not robed in drapery of ...
Thus Heaven, repeating its material plan, Arched over all the rainbow mind of man ; But he who, blind to universal laws, Sees but effects, unconscious of their cause, — Believes each image in itself is bright, Not robed in drapery of ...
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To join the chorus pealing " Auld lang syne " ; The gentle maid, whose azure eye grows dim, While Heaven is listening to her evening hymn ; The jewelled beauty, when her steps draw near The circling dance and dazzling chandelier ; E'en ...
To join the chorus pealing " Auld lang syne " ; The gentle maid, whose azure eye grows dim, While Heaven is listening to her evening hymn ; The jewelled beauty, when her steps draw near The circling dance and dazzling chandelier ; E'en ...
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Page 2 - The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 1 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems 1 The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Author | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Publisher | Reprint Services Corporation, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0781213916, 9780781213912 |
| Length | 474 pages |
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