Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
To My Old Readers
... In strong, dark lines our square-nibbed pen should draw ...
Francis Parkman
... far and wide He searched the unwritten records of his race ...
To Governor Swain
... While Time, caught fast in pleasure's chain, ...
Remember--Forget
... We sailed her through the four years' cruise, ...
A Parting Health
... Till their warriors shall breathe and their beauties shall bloom, ...
The Lyre Of Anacreon
... Stay, winged hours, too swift, too sweet, ...
A Family Record
... I have come To speak with lips that rather should be dumb ...
A Roman Aqueduct
... As, through the flickering noontide glare, ...
Poem At The Centennial Anniversary Dinner Of The Massachusetts Medical Society
... JUNE 8, 1881 THREE paths there be where Learning's favored sons, ...
Hymn For The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of Kings Chapel
... The prayers we read their tears have wet, ...
At A Dinner To Admiral Farragut
... JULY 6, 1865 Now, smiling friends and shipmates all, ...
A Noontide Lyric
... Through hill and plain, through street and lane, ...
Questions And Answers
... Where the gray colts and the ten-year-old fillies, ...
A Poem Served To Order
... " "Thanks! thanks!" the grateful chef replied, ...
At My Fireside
... Like drift-wood brands that glimmering lie, ...