Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Extracts from a Medical Poem. The Stability of Science
... Nay, shines, all radiance, oâer the scattered fleet ...
"Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve"
... scythe! "No sides in this quarrel," your statesmen may urge, ...
An Impromptu - II
... " "Nay," answered soft-voiced Anna, "'t was thunder that you heard, ...
Songs In Many Keys
... Strong arms, broad breasts, brave hearts, are better worth ...
Meeting Of The Alumni Of Harvard College
... " What dreams we 've had of deathless name, as scholars, statesmen, bards, ...
Our Dead Singer
... H. W. L. PRIDE of the sister realm so long our own, ...
Hymn For The Class-Meeting
... The stars that gild our darkening years, ...
The Last Charge
... Smite, smite the proud parricide down from his throne,-- ...
To The Teachers Of America
... And where the leaves, the flowers, the fruits, ...
Iris, Her Book
... What were these torturing gifts, and wherefore lent her ...
For The Dedication Of The New City Library, Boston
... From history's scroll the splendor streams, ...
The Treadmill Song
... Heâs lost them both,âÂdonât pull his hair, ...
For Whittiers Seventieth Birthday
... Through the holes in the mask comes the flash of the eyes ...
To My Readers
... if they wear One streak of morn or evening's glow, ...
The Poets Lot
... (The grass in black, the graves in green, ...
