The Poems of Oliver Wendell HolmesFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 410 pages |
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... pale in Virtue , as the star above , Or quivering roseate on the leaves of Love ; Glaring like noontide , where it glows upon Ambition's sands , the desert in the sun ; Or soft suffusing o'er the varied scene Life's common coloring ...
... pale in Virtue , as the star above , Or quivering roseate on the leaves of Love ; Glaring like noontide , where it glows upon Ambition's sands , the desert in the sun ; Or soft suffusing o'er the varied scene Life's common coloring ...
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... leap , Roused by her accents from their tranquil sleep , The ray that flashes from the soldier's crest Lights , as it glances , in the poet's breast ; · - Not in pale dreamers , whose fantastic lay Toys with 18 POETRY :
... leap , Roused by her accents from their tranquil sleep , The ray that flashes from the soldier's crest Lights , as it glances , in the poet's breast ; · - Not in pale dreamers , whose fantastic lay Toys with 18 POETRY :
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Oliver Wendell Holmes. Not in pale dreamers , whose fantastic lay Toys with smooth trifles like a child at play , But men , who act the passions they inspire , Who wave the sabre as they sweep the lyre ! Ye mild enthusiasts , whose ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Not in pale dreamers , whose fantastic lay Toys with smooth trifles like a child at play , But men , who act the passions they inspire , Who wave the sabre as they sweep the lyre ! Ye mild enthusiasts , whose ...
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... pale , and history seems too tame , Bid him await some new Columbiad's page , To gild the tablets of an iron age , And save his tears , which yet may fall upon Some fabled field , some fancied Washington ! IV . BUT once again , from ...
... pale , and history seems too tame , Bid him await some new Columbiad's page , To gild the tablets of an iron age , And save his tears , which yet may fall upon Some fabled field , some fancied Washington ! IV . BUT once again , from ...
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... pale enthusiast's lyre ; If this be genius , though its bitter springs Glowed like the morn beneath Aurora's wings , Seek not the source whose sullen bosom feeds But fruitless flowers , and dark , envenomed weeds . But , if so bright ...
... pale enthusiast's lyre ; If this be genius , though its bitter springs Glowed like the morn beneath Aurora's wings , Seek not the source whose sullen bosom feeds But fruitless flowers , and dark , envenomed weeds . But , if so bright ...
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