Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Voiceless
... But die with all their music in them!Nay, grieve not for the dead alone ...
Brother Jonathan's Lament
... And the shark tracks the pirate, the lord of the waves:In vain is the strife! When its fury is past, ...
The Iron Gate
... Life's flow less noisy, but the stream how deep!Still as the silver cord gets worn and slender, ...
Martha
... Toll the bell!Sexton! Martha's dead and gone ...
Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man
... Men, plugless word-spouts, whose deep fountains are ...
Cacoethes Scribendi
... every sea Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes ...
The September Gale
... For me two storms were brewing!It came as quarrels sometimes do, ...
My Aviary
... Flop! Splash! his white breast glistens-- down he goes!And while he's under-- just about a minute-- ...
The Opening of the Piano
... c-varnish and its flash of ivory keys!Then the children all grew fretful in the restlessness of joy, ...
The Living Temple
... Eternal wisdom still the same!The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves ...
But One Talent
... Let not what Heaven assigned thee bring thee blame ...
The Organ-Blower
... And all the slumbering echoes wake!The Preacher from the Bible-text ...
The Dorchester Giant
... Then he brought them a pudding stuffed with plums, ...
For the Moore Centennial Celebration
... ile Shannon and Liffey shall dimple and smile,The land where the staff of Saint Patrick was planted, ...
Æstivation
... That laves my milk-jug with celestial blue! Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! ...
