Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes: With Numerous IllustrationsHoughton, Mifflin, 1887 - 357 pages |
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... smile , as I do now , At the old forsaken bough Where I cling . THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD . OUR ancient church ! its lowly tower , Beneath the loftier spire , Is shadowed when the sunset hour Clothes the tall shaft in fire ; It sinks ...
... smile , as I do now , At the old forsaken bough Where I cling . THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD . OUR ancient church ! its lowly tower , Beneath the loftier spire , Is shadowed when the sunset hour Clothes the tall shaft in fire ; It sinks ...
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... smile . MY AUNT . My aunt ! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er her flown ; Yet still she strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin zone ; I know it hurts her , - though she looks As cheerful as she can ; Her waist is ...
... smile . MY AUNT . My aunt ! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er her flown ; Yet still she strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin zone ; I know it hurts her , - though she looks As cheerful as she can ; Her waist is ...
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... smiles - Vowed she should make the finest girl Within a hundred miles ; He sent her to a stylish school ; ' T was in her thirteenth June ; And with her , as the rules required , " Two towels and a spoon . " They braced my aunt against a ...
... smiles - Vowed she should make the finest girl Within a hundred miles ; He sent her to a stylish school ; ' T was in her thirteenth June ; And with her , as the rules required , " Two towels and a spoon . " They braced my aunt against a ...
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... stream , It still reflects my morning's beam . And therefore love I such as smile On these neglected songs No deem that flattery's needless wile My opening bosom wrongs 12 EARLIER POEMS . The Height of the Ridiculous The Last Reader.
... stream , It still reflects my morning's beam . And therefore love I such as smile On these neglected songs No deem that flattery's needless wile My opening bosom wrongs 12 EARLIER POEMS . The Height of the Ridiculous The Last Reader.
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... smiles of Proud of a pebble , as the brightest gem Whose light might crown an emperor's diadem . God , Pure , pale ... smiling at its half - formed word ; Unwonted lustre in some clearer mind , Believe that Genius sets the laws at The ...
... smiles of Proud of a pebble , as the brightest gem Whose light might crown an emperor's diadem . God , Pure , pale ... smiling at its half - formed word ; Unwonted lustre in some clearer mind , Believe that Genius sets the laws at The ...
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Page 166 - Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he
Page 157 - Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 166 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from...
Page 154 - Up with our banner bright, Sprinkled with starry light, Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore, While through the sounding sky Loud rings the Nation's cry, Union and Liberty! One evermore!
Page 176 - Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near...
Page 165 - I might desire Some shawls of true cashmere, — Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk. I would not have the horse I drive So fast that folks must stop and stare : An easy gait — two, forty-five — Suits me; I do not care; — Perhaps, for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four. — I love so much their style and tone, — One Turner...
Page 1 - And burst the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's...
Page 167 - But nothing local as one may say. There couldn't be, — for the Deacon's art Had made it so like in every part That there wasn'ta chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more...
Page 154 - Behold its streaming rays unite, One mingling flood of braided light, — The red that fires the Southern rose, With spotless white from Northern snows, And, spangled o'er its azure, see The sister Stars of Liberty ! Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty...
Page 168 - You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once — All at once, and nothing first — Just as bubbles do when they burst.