Selections from the Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Arr. Under the Days of the Year, & Accompanied by Memoranda of Anniversaries of Noted Events & of the Birth Or Death of Famous Men & WomenHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1889 - 50 pages |
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... Birth Or Death of Famous Men & Women Oliver Wendell Holmes. 828 A 513920 H752 SELECTIONS 09 from the Poetic and Prose Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes PRESENTED TO THE ENGLISH LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Front Cover.
... Birth Or Death of Famous Men & Women Oliver Wendell Holmes. 828 A 513920 H752 SELECTIONS 09 from the Poetic and Prose Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes PRESENTED TO THE ENGLISH LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Front Cover.
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . In spite of all that Time is bringing , Treasures of truth and miracles of art , Beauty and Love will keep the poet singing , And song still live , the science of the heart . THE COMING ERA . 10. Aubrey ...
... POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . In spite of all that Time is bringing , Treasures of truth and miracles of art , Beauty and Love will keep the poet singing , And song still live , the science of the heart . THE COMING ERA . 10. Aubrey ...
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... POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 14. M. F. Maury , 1806 . Between the last dandelion and violet they have been found in December — and the first spring blossom which lifts the snow in its calyx , there is a frozen interregnum in the ...
... POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 14. M. F. Maury , 1806 . Between the last dandelion and violet they have been found in December — and the first spring blossom which lifts the snow in its calyx , there is a frozen interregnum in the ...
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... Poets , like painters , their machinery claim , And verse bestows the varnish and the frame ; Our grating English , whose Teutonic jar Shakes the racked axle of Art's rattling car , Fits like mosaic in the lines that gird Fast in its ...
... Poets , like painters , their machinery claim , And verse bestows the varnish and the frame ; Our grating English , whose Teutonic jar Shakes the racked axle of Art's rattling car , Fits like mosaic in the lines that gird Fast in its ...
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Page 46 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Page 43 - But little-minded people's thought move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not sensibly differ from a straight line. Even if it have the third vowel as its centre, it does not soon betray it.
Page 76 - The snowdrop, bearing on her patient breast The frozen trophy torn from winter's crest; The violet, gazing on the arch of blue Till her own iris wears its deepened hue; The spendthrift crocus, bursting through the mould Naked and shivering with his cup of gold.