The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: With IllustrationsHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1887 - 357 pages |
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... keep Their vigil on the green ; One seems to guard , and one to weep , The dead that lie between ; And both roll out , so full and near , Their music's mingling waves , They shake the grass , whose pennoned spear Leans on the narrow ...
... keep Their vigil on the green ; One seems to guard , and one to weep , The dead that lie between ; And both roll out , so full and near , Their music's mingling waves , They shake the grass , whose pennoned spear Leans on the narrow ...
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... keep the vulgar out ; We've nothing in the world to do But just to walk about ; So faster , now , you middle men , And try to beat the ends , It's pleasant work to ramble round Among one's honest friends . Here , tread upon the long ...
... keep the vulgar out ; We've nothing in the world to do But just to walk about ; So faster , now , you middle men , And try to beat the ends , It's pleasant work to ramble round Among one's honest friends . Here , tread upon the long ...
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... 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 , Those ...
... 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 , Those ...
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... keep Her broad breast to the gale ; Shall never wake in day ! LEXINGTON . SLOWLY the mist o'er the meadow was creeping , Bright on the dewy buds glistened the sun , When from his couch , while his chil- dren were sleeping , Rose the ...
... keep Her broad breast to the gale ; Shall never wake in day ! LEXINGTON . SLOWLY the mist o'er the meadow was creeping , Bright on the dewy buds glistened the sun , When from his couch , while his chil- dren were sleeping , Rose the ...
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... keep her ever free , Wide as o'er land and sea Floats the fair emblem her heroes have won ! ON LENDING A PUNCH - BOWL . THIS ancient silver bowl of mine , it tells of good old times , Voiceless the trumpet horn , high ; merry Christmas ...
... keep her ever free , Wide as o'er land and sea Floats the fair emblem her heroes have won ! ON LENDING A PUNCH - BOWL . THIS ancient silver bowl of mine , it tells of good old times , Voiceless the trumpet horn , high ; merry Christmas ...
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Page 161 - Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil...
Page 2 - And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
Page 173 - 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 173 - 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, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore. And spring and axle and hub encore.
Page 173 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. This is a moral that runs at large; (Take it.
Page 1 - 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 tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook the mighty deep.
Page 141 - The wild flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts...
Page 174 - 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.
Page 1 - Oh ! better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave : Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy flag ; Set every threadbare sail ; And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale ! THE LAST LEAF.
Page 213 - There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain ; When he spoke for our manhood in syllabled fire, We called him "The Justice,