The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell HolmesGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1883 - 384 pages |
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... roll out , so full and near , Their music's mingling waves , They shake the grass , whose pennoned spear Leans on the narrow graves . The stranger parts the flaunting weeds , Whose seeds the winds have strown So thick beneath the line ...
... roll out , so full and near , Their music's mingling waves , They shake the grass , whose pennoned spear Leans on the narrow graves . The stranger parts the flaunting weeds , Whose seeds the winds have strown So thick beneath the line ...
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... rolling stone , - The shelving sand that slid , And , far beneath , with hollow tone , Rung on the coffin's lid . The slumberer's mound grows fresh and green , Then slowly disappears ; The mosses creep , the gray stones lean , Earth ...
... rolling stone , - The shelving sand that slid , And , far beneath , with hollow tone , Rung on the coffin's lid . The slumberer's mound grows fresh and green , Then slowly disappears ; The mosses creep , the gray stones lean , Earth ...
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... roll down The crackling , sweating pines , And streams of smoke , like water - spouts , Burst through the rumbling mines ; I asked the firemen why they made Such noise about the town ; They answered not , -but all the while The brakes ...
... roll down The crackling , sweating pines , And streams of smoke , like water - spouts , Burst through the rumbling mines ; I asked the firemen why they made Such noise about the town ; They answered not , -but all the while The brakes ...
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... rolling in the sky , The earth rolls on below , And we can feel the rattling wheel Revolving as we go . Then tread away , my gallant boys , And make the axle fly ; Why should not wheels go round about , Like planets in the sky ? Wake up ...
... rolling in the sky , The earth rolls on below , And we can feel the rattling wheel Revolving as we go . Then tread away , my gallant boys , And make the axle fly ; Why should not wheels go round about , Like planets in the sky ? Wake up ...
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... rolling years , Marked on the soil , or dialled on the spheres , The crested forests and the coloured flowers , The dewy grottos and the blushing bowers , These , and their guardians , who , with liquid names , Strephons and Chloes ...
... rolling years , Marked on the soil , or dialled on the spheres , The crested forests and the coloured flowers , The dewy grottos and the blushing bowers , These , and their guardians , who , with liquid names , Strephons and Chloes ...
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Page 204 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page v - 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. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan. And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said,
Page 221 - And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore. And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out!
Page 205 - Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings, 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...
Page 177 - 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 I Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts...
Page 21 - He took the paper, and I watched, And saw him peep within ; At the first line he read, his face Was all upon the grin. He read the next ; the grin grew broad, And shot from ear to ear ; He read the third ; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth ; he broke into a roar ; • The fifth ; his waistband split ; The sixth ; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
Page v - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! -*•-*- Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky : Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar: — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more! 126 CHOICE LITERATURE Her deck, once red with heroes...
Page 218 - Turner, and no more. (A landscape, foreground golden dirt, The sunshine painted with a squirt). Of books but few — some fifty score For daily use, and bound for wear; The rest upon an upper floor; Some little luxury there Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream.
Page 219 - I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits, — Have you ever heard of that, I say ? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Page 181 - Not in the world of light alone, Where God has built his blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, With belted seas that come and go, And endless isles of sunlit green, Is all thy Maker's glory seen: Look in upon thy wondrous frame, — Eternal wisdom still the same...