Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Programme
... For the rest, they take their chance,-- ...
The Crooked Footpath
... The gap that struck our school-boy trail,-- ...
Wind-Clouds And Star-Drifts
... every hour Brings forth some gasping truth, and truth newborn ...
Welcome To The Grand Duke Alexis
... Sung to the Russian national air by the children of the public schools ...
A Modest Request
... Its glorious sunshine streams through Blackstone's port ...
For The Commemoration Services
... Less than the least brave deed these hands have wrought, ...
The Broken Circle
... They slant, they stoop, they fall at last, ...
After A Lecture On Wordsworth
... Take what she gives, her pine's tall stem, ...
Shakespeare
... Stamped once on dust that moved with pulse and breath, ...
A Sentiment. II.
... Friendshipâs blind service, in the hour of need, ...
Agnes
... âNay, droop not thus,âÂwhereâer,â he cried, ...
Nux Postcoenatica
... BesidesâÂmy prospectsâÂdonât you know that people wonât employ ...
The Toadstool
... He sings at her feet through the live-long night, ...
The Music-Grinders
... It cannot be,âÂit is,âÂit is,â ...
To James Russell Lowell
... Her soil, her speech, her people, through and through, ...