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Oliver Wendell Holmes

August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: "Lucy" - For Her Golden Wedding, October 18, 1875 Lucy." - The old familiar name 1875 40216
2: A Ballad Of The Boston Tea-Party No! never such a draught was poured 1874 102568
3: A Birthday Tribute - To J. F. Clarke Who is the shepherd sent to lead, 32252
4: A Familiar Letter - To Several Correspondents Yes, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; 80220
5: A Family Record Not to myself this breath of vesper song, 201220
6: A Farewell To Agassiz How the mountains talked together, 1865 91235
7: A Good Time Going! Brave singer of the coming time, 64203
8: A Hymn Of Peace Angel of Peace, thou hast wandered too long! 24258
9: A Loving-Cup Song Come, heap the fagots! Ere we go 1883 42210
10: A Memorial Tribute Leader of armies, Israel's God, 84230
11: A Metrical Essay, Read Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University, August, 1836 Scenes of my youth! awake its slumbering fire! 648210
12: A Modest Request Scene, - a back parlor in a certain square, 222257
13: A Noontide Lyric The dinner-bell, the dinner-bell 40225
14: A Parting Health - To J. L. Motley Yes, we knew we must lose him, - though friendship may claim 1857 28194
15: A Poem - Dedication Of The Pittsfield Cemetery, September 9,1850 Angel of Death! extend thy silent reign! 122215
16: A Poem For The Meeting Of The American Medical Association At New York, May 5, 1853 I hold a letter in my hand, 96237
17: A Poem Served To Order The Caliph ordered up his cook, 1873 72208
18: A Portrait Thoughtful in youth, but not austere in age; 14253
19: A Portrait A still, sweet, placid, moonlight face, 24207
20: A Puritan War Song - To Canaan Where are you going, soldiers, 1862 60224
21: A Rhymed Lesson (Urania) Yes, dear Enchantress, - wandering far and long, 748224
22: A Roman Aqueduct The sun-browned girl, whose limbs recline 32249
23: A Sea Dialogue Friend, you seem thoughtful. I not wonder much 1864 56220
24: A Sentiment The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine, 24242
25: A Sentiment O Bios Bpaxus, - life is but a song; 10237
26: A Sentiment A triple health to Friendship, Science, Art, 1855 14234
27: A Sentiment Offered At The Dinner To H. I. H. The Prince Napoleon, At The Revere House, September 25,1861 The land of sunshine and of song! 48207
28: A Song For The Centennial Celebration Of Harvard College, 1836 When the Puritans came over 56206
29: A Song Of "Twenty-Nine" The summer dawn is breaking 1851 88208
30: A Song Of Other Days As o'er the glacier's frozen sheet 60235
31: A Sun-Day Hymn Lord of all being! throned afar, 20248
32: A Toast To Wilkie Collins The painter's and the poet's fame 1874 16229
33: A Voice Of The Loyal North We sing "Our Country's" song to-night 1861 48200
34: A Welcome To Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould On His Return From South America Once more Orion and the sister Seven 1885 40201
35: Ad Amicos The muse of boyhood's fervid hour 1876 80245
36: Added For The Alumni Meeting, June 29, So the gray Boatswain of 'Twenty-nine 1869 16241
37: Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, December 3, 1873 Hang out our banners on the stately tower 158209
38: Aestivation - An Unpublished Poem, By My Late Latin Tutor In candent ire the solar splendor flames; 16226
39: After A Lecture On Keats The wreath that star-crowned Shelley gave 44228
40: After A Lecture On Moore Shine soft, ye trembling tears of light 44227
41: After A Lecture On Shelley One broad, white sail in Spezzia's treacherous bay 36228
42: After A Lecture On Wordsworth Come, spread your wings, as I spread mine, 100214
43: After The Curfew The Play is over. While the light 1889 44205
44: After The Fire While far along the eastern sky 1872 50230
45: Agnes The tale I tell is gospel true, 572224
46: Album Verses When Eve had led her lord away, 28201
47: All Here It is not what we say or sing, 1867 73231
48: America To Russia (Songs Of Welcome And Farewell) Though watery deserts hold apart 1866 40221
49: American Academy Centennial Celebration Sire, son, and grandson; so the century glides; 1880 70221
50: An After-Dinner Poem In narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse, 242235
51: An Appeal For "The Old South" Full sevenscore years our city's pride 42235
52: An Evening Thought - Written At Sea If sometimes in the dark blue eye, 32201
53: An Impromptu The clock has struck noon; ere it thrice tell the hours 20196
54: Army Hymn - "Old Hundred" O Lord of Hosts! Almighty King! 20227
55: At A Birthday Festival - To J. R. Lowell We will not speak of years to-night, 1859 24196
56: At A Dinner To Admiral Farragut Now, smiling friends and shipmates all, 1865 48242
57: At A Dinner To General Grant When treason first began the strife 1865 72234
58: At A Meeting Of Friends I remember - why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago? 44215
59: At The "Atlantic" Dinner I suppose it's myself that you're making allusion to 1874 68197
60: At The Banquet To The Chinese Embassy Brothers, whom we may not reach 1868 48221
61: At The Banquet To The Grand Duke Alexis One word to the guest we have gathered to greet! 48233
62: At The Banquet To The Japanese Embassy We welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun! 56227
63: At The Close Of A Course Of Lectures As the voice of the watch to the mariner's dream, 36209
64: At The Pantomime The house was crammed from roof to floor, 1874 80259
65: At The Papyrus Club A lovely show for eyes to see 40252
66: At The Saturday Club This is our place of meeting; opposite 166196
67: At The Summit Sister, we bid you welcome, - we who stand 24228
68: At The Turn Of The Road The glory has passed from the goldenrod's plume, 32198
69: At The Unitarian Festival The waves unbuild the wasting shore; 1882 12201
70: Aunt Tabitha - The Young Girl's Poem Whatever I do, and whatever I say, 32268
71: Ave Full well I know the frozen hand has come 1884 33206
72: Avis I may not rightly call thy name, 64194
73: Before The Curfew Alone, beneath the darkened sky, 1888 12199
74: Benjamin Peirce - Astronomer, Mathematician. 1809-1890 For him the Architect of all 1881 40179
75: Bill And Joe Come, dear old comrade, you and I 60205
76: Birthday Of Daniel Webster (January 18, 1856) When life hath run its largest round 64188
77: Boston To Florence Proud of her clustering spires, her new-built towers, 14189
78: Brother Jonathan's Lament For Sister Caroline She has gone, - she has left us in passion and pride, 1861 36210
79: Bryant's Seventieth Birthday O even-handed Nature! we confess 1864 84206
80: Cacoethes Scribendi If all the trees in all the woods were men; 12206
81: Chanson Without Music By The Professor Emeritus Of Dead And Live Languages You bid me sing, - can I forget 1867 56206
82: Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve Yes, tyrants, you hate us, and fear while you hate 1863 48227
83: Contentment Little I ask; my wants are few; 72208
84: Daily Trials By A Sensitive Man Oh, there are times 44241
85: De Sauty - An Electro-Chemical Eclogue Tell me, O Provincial! speak, Ceruleo-Nasal! 56216
86: Departed Days Yes, dear departed, cherished days, 16200
87: Dorothy Q. - A Family Portrait Grandmother's mother: her age, I guess, 1871 72217
88: Edward Everett - "Our First Citizen" Winter's cold drift lies glistening o'er his breast; 72224
89: Epilogue To The Breakfast-Table Series Autocrat-Professor-Poet A crazy bookcase, placed before 80216
90: Even-Song. It may be, yes, it must be, Time that brings 1870 126186
91: Evening By A Tailor Day hath put on his jacket, and around 51206
92: Extracts From A Medical Poem - The Stability Of Science The feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms, 32196
93: F. W. C. Fast as the rolling seasons bring 1864 64198
94: Fantasia - The Young Girl's Poem Kiss mine eyelids, beauteous Morn, 18198
95: Farewell - To J. R. Lowell Farewell, for the bark has her breast to the tide, 1855 24185
96: For Class Meeting It is a pity and a shame - alas! alas! I know it is, 1875 44193
97: For The Burns Centennial Celebration His birthday. - Nay, we need not speak 56184
98: For The Centennial Dinner Of The Proprietors Of Boston Pier, Or The Long Wharf, April 16, 1873 Dear friends, we are strangers; we never before 48201
99: For The Commemoration Services Four summers coined their golden light in leaves, 1895 84184
100: For The Dedication Of The New City Library, Boston Proudly, beneath her glittering dome, 1888 44185
101: For The Fair In Aid Of The Fund To Procure Ball's Statue Of Washington All overgrown with bush and fern, 1859 48189
102: For The Meeting Of The Burns Club The mountains glitter in the snow 56180
103: For The Meeting Of The National Sanitary Association 1860 What makes the Healing Art divine? 52179
104: For The Moore Centennial Celebration Enchanter of Erin, whose magic has bound us, 1879 64168
105: For The Services In Memory Of Abraham Lincoln O thou of soul and sense and breath 28188
106: For The Window In St. Margaret's In Memory Of A Son Of Archdeacon Farrar Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here, 1891 181
107: For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday I believe that the copies of verses I've spun, 1877 56188
108: Freedom, Our Queen Land where the banners wave last in the sun, 24171
109: From A Bachelor's Private Journal Sweet Mary, I have never breathed 28190
110: God Save The Flag Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming, 1865 20179
111: Grandmother's Story Of Bunker-Hill Battle As She Saw It From The Belfry T is like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers 148195
112: H. C. M. H. S. J. K. W. The dirge is played, the throbbing death-peal rung, 1873 48205
113: Hail, Columbia! Hail, Columbia! Happy land! 1887 59187
114: Homesick In Heaven Go seek thine earth-born sisters, - thus the Voice 91212
115: How Not To Settle It I like, at times, to hear the steeples' chimes 1877 116184
116: How The Old Horse Won The Bet T was on the famous trotting-ground, 205186
117: Humboldt's Birthday Ere yet the warning chimes of midnight sound, 56172
118: Hymn After The Emancipation Proclamation Giver of all that crowns our days, 1865 20178
119: Hymn At The Funeral Services Of Charles Sumner, April 29, 1874 Once more, ye sacred towers, 24182
120: Hymn For The Celebration At The Laying Of The Cornerstone Of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6, 1870 Not with the anguish of hearts that are breaking 16186
121: Hymn For The Class-Meeting Thou Gracious Power, whose mercy lends 1869 20188
122: Hymn For The Dedication Of Memorial Hall At Cambridge, June 23, 1874 Where, girt around by savage foes, 24182
123: Hymn For The Fair At Chicago O God! in danger's darkest hour, 1865 28174
124: Hymn For The Inauguration Of The Statue Of Governor Andrew, Hingham, October 7, 1875 Behold the shape our eyes have known! 24185
125: Hymn For The Same Occasion (The Two Hundredth Anniversary King's Chapel) O'ershadowed by the walls that climb, 24167
126: Hymn Of Trust O Love Divine, that stooped to share 16189
127: Hymn Read At The Dedication Of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital At Hudson, Wisconsin Angel of love, for every grief 1877 28183
128: Hymn. - The Word Of Promise Lord, Thou hast led us as of old 28171
129: I Like You And I Love You I LIKE YOU Met I LOVE You, face to face; 12168
130: Illustration Of A Picture "A Spanish Girl In Reverie," She twirled the string of golden beads, 48199
131: In Memory Of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr. He was all sunshine; in his face 1860 40172
132: In Memory Of John And Robert Ware No mystic charm, no mortal art, 1864 54191
133: In Response Such kindness! the scowl of a cynic would soften, 48194
134: In The Quiet Days - An Old-Year Song As through the forest, disarrayed 1874 50221
135: In The Twilight Not bed-time yet! The night-winds blow, 1882 112174
136: In Vita Minerva Vex not the Muse with idle prayers, 20176
137: International Ode - Our Fathers' Land God bless our Fathers' Land! 21174
138: Iris, Her Book I pray thee by the soul of her that bore thee, 51197
139: J. D. R. The friends that are, and friends that were, 1862 12214
140: James Russell Lowell Thou shouldst have sung the swan-song for the choir 44189
141: Joseph Warren, M. D. Trained in the holy art whose lifted shield 1875 14194
142: King's Chapel Is it a weanling's weakness for the past 66160
143: L'Inconnue Is thy name Mary, maiden fair? 18211
144: La Grisette As Clemence! when I saw thee last 40218
145: La Maison D'Or From this fair home behold on either side 8190
146: Latter-Day Warnings When legislators keep the law, 36191
147: Lexington Slowly the mist o'er the meadow was creeping, 60164
148: Lines I 'm ashamed, - that 's the fact, - it 's a pitiful case, 1860 28193
149: Lines By A Clerk Oh! I did love her dearly, 40189
150: Lines Recited At The Berkshire Jubilee, Pittsfield, Mass., August 23, 1844 Come back to your mother, ye children, for shame, 52181
151: Mare Rubrum Flash out a stream of blood-red wine, 1858 56203
152: Martha (Died January 7, 1861) Sexton! Martha's dead and gone; 25194
153: Meeting Of The Alumni Of Harvard College - 1857 I thank you, MR. PRESIDENT, you've kindly broke the ice; 72162
154: Midsummer Here! sweep these foolish leaves away, 28187
155: Musa O my lost beauty! - hast thou folded quite 63173
156: My Annual How long will this harp which you once loved to hear 1866 56170
157: My Aunt My aunt! my dear unmarried aunt! 48190
158: My Aviary Through my north window, in the wintry weather 96172
159: Nearing The Snow-Line Slow toiling upward from' the misty vale, 1870 14162
160: Never Or Now - An Appeal Listen, young heroes! your country is calling! 1862 32183
161: No Time Like The Old Time There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young, 1865 24158
162: Non-Resistance Perhaps too far in these considerate days 20182
163: Nux Postcoenatica I was sitting with my microscope, upon my parlor rug, 72176
164: Ode For A Social Meeting Come! fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go 12164
165: Ode For Washington's Birthday Welcome to the day returning, 48173
166: Old Cambridge And can it be you've found a place 1875 117176
167: Old Ironsides Ay, tear her tattered ensign down 24175
168: On Lending A Punch-Bowl This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times, 52178
169: On The Death Of President Garfield Fallen with autumn's falling leaf 76163
170: On The Threshold An usher standing at the door 36187
171: Once More Will I come?" That is pleasant! I beg to inquire 1868 80184
172: One Country One country! Treason's writhing asp 1865 32179
173: Opening The Window Thus I lift the sash, so long 16176
174: Our Banker Old time, in whose bank we deposit our notes, 1874 52190
175: Our Dead Singer Pride of the sister realm so long our own, 42172
176: Our Home - Our Country Your home was mine, - kind Nature's gift; 1880 70169
177: Our Indian Summer You 'll believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise, 1856 32164
178: Our Limitations We trust and fear, we question and believe, 16177
179: Our Oldest Friend I give you the health of the oldest friend 1865 52178
180: Our Sweet Singer - J. A. One memory trembles on our lips; 1872 52196
181: Our Yankee Girls Let greener lands and bluer skies, 32178
182: Parson Turell's Legacy Or, The President's Old Arm-Chair - A Mathematical Story Facts respecting an old arm-chair. 162183
183: Parting Hymn - "Dundee" Father of Mercies, Heavenly Friend, 24187
184: Poem At The Centennial Anniversary Dinner Of The Massachusetts Medical Society, June 8, 1881 Three paths there be where Learning's favored sons, 1881 229155
185: Poem At The Dedication Of The Halleck Monument, July 8, 1869 Say not the Poet dies! 45161
186: Poem For The Dedication Of The Fountain At Stratford-On-Avon, Presented By George W. Childs, Of Philadelphia Welcome, thrice welcome is thy silvery gleam, 1887 81154
187: Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College Twice had the mellowing sun of autumn crowned 480160
188: Post-Prandial - Phi Beta Kappa The Dutch have taken Holland," - so the schoolboys used to say; 1881 28208
189: Prelude To A Volume Printed In Raised Letters For The Blind Dear friends, left darkling in the long eclipse 26158
190: Programme Reader - gentle - if so be 1874 72194
191: Prologue A prologue? Well, of course the ladies know, 74182
192: Questions And Answers Where, oh where are the visions of morning, 24195
193: Qui Vive? Qui vive?" The sentry's musket rings, 36210
194: Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel You know "The Teacups," that congenial set 969181
195: Reflections Of A Proud Pedestrian I saw the curl of his waving lash, 24181
196: Remember - Forget And what shall be the song to-night, 64191
197: Rhymes Of A Life-Time From the first gleam of morning to the gray 1881 14175
198: Rip Van Winkle, M. D. Old Rip Van Winkle had a grandson, Rip, 295188
199: Robinson Of Leyden He sleeps not here; in hope and prayer 48187
200: Semi-Centennial Celebration Of The New England Society New York, December 22, 1855 New England, we love thee; no time can erase 36171
201: Shakespeare - Tercentennial Celebration Who claims our Shakespeare from that realm unknown, 1864 66151
202: Sherman's In Savannah - A Half-Rhymed Impromptu Like the tribes of Israel, 1865 24184
203: Song For A Temperance Dinner To Which Ladies Were Invited A health to dear woman! She bids us untwine, 20180
204: Song Written For The Dinner Given To Charles Dickens By The Young Men Of Boston, February 1, 1842 The stars their early vigils keep, 32165
205: Songs In Many Keys 1849-1861 The piping of our slender, peaceful reeds 1861 28157
206: Spring Winter is past; the heart of Nature warms 72182
207: Spring Has Come The sunbeams, lost for half a year, 56171
208: St. Anthony The Reformer - His Temptation No fear lest praise should make us proud! 32175
209: Stanzas Strange! that one lightly whispered tone 24179
210: Sun And Shadow As I look from the isle, o'er its billows of green, 24233
211: Tartarus While in my simple gospel creed 32198
212: The Angel-Thief Time is a thief who leaves his tools behind him; 1888 24166
213: The Archbishop And Gil Blas - A Modernized Version I Don't think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray, 1879 52159
214: The Ballad Of The Oysterman It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, 28186
215: The Banker's Secret - From Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel The Banker's dinner is the stateliest feast 246171
216: The Bells When o'er the street the morning peal is flung 44182
217: The Boys Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? 1859 44190
218: The Broken Circle I stood On Sarum's treeless plain, 1887 52172
219: The Broomstick Train; Or, The Return Of The Witches Look out! Look out, boys! Clear the track! 146170
220: The Cambridge Churchyard Our ancient church! its lowly tower, 112179
221: The Chambered Nautilus This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, 35183
222: The Comet The Comet! He is on his way, 72159
223: The Coming Era They tell us that the Muse is soon to fly hence, 52163
224: The Crooked Footpath Ah, here it is! the sliding rail 36180
225: The Deacon's Masterpiece Or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay" - A Logical Story Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, 120158
226: The Dilemma Now, by the blessed Paphian queen, 48180
227: The Dorchester Giant There was a giant in time of old, 55204
228: The Exile's Secret - From Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel Ye that have faced the billows and the spray 172149
229: The First Fan When rose the cry "Great Pan is dead!" 124199
230: The Flaneur I Love all sights of earth and skies, 1882 137172
231: The Flower Of Liberty What flower is this that greets the morn, 40199
232: The Fountain Of Youth The fount the Spaniard sought in vain 1873 48170
233: The Girdle Of Friendship She gathered at her slender waist 1884 24170
234: The Golden Flower When Advent dawns with lessening days, 40174
235: The Gray Chief T is sweet to fight our battles o'er, 21170
236: The Height Of The Ridiculous I wrote some lines once on a time 32166
237: The Hot Season The folks, that on the first of May 56178
238: The Hudson - After A Lecture At Albany T was a vision of childhood that came with its dawn, 1854 24177
239: The Iron Gate Where is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? 80178
240: The Island Hunting-Song No more the summer floweret charms, 40249
241: The Last Blossom Though young no more, we still would dream 48162
242: The Last Charge Now, men of the North! will you join in the strife 1864 24176
243: The Last Leaf I saw him once before, 48172
244: The Last Look Behold - not him we knew! 36172
245: The Last Reader I sometimes sit beneath a tree 48157
246: The Last Survivor Yes! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast, 1878 72170
247: The Living Temple Not in the world of light alone, 56189
248: The Lover's Secret - From Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel What ailed young Lucius? Art had vainly tried 128159
249: The Lyre Of Anacreon The minstrel of the classic lay 1885 48161
250: The Meeting Of The Dryads It was not many centuries since, 72173
251: The Mind's Diet No life worth naming ever comes to good 24181
252: The Moral Bully Yon whey-faced brother, who delights to wear 56168
253: The Morning Visit A sick man's chamber, though it often boast 1849 108195
254: The Mother's Secret - From Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel How sweet the sacred legend - if unblamed 133168
255: The Music-Grinders There are three ways in which men take 78185
256: The Mysterious Visitor There was a sound of hurrying feet, 80175
257: The New Eden Scarce could the parting ocean close, 120170
258: The Old Cruiser Here's the old cruiser, 'Twenty-nine, 1869 72179
259: The Old Man Dreams Oh for one hour of youthful joy! 44172
260: The Old Man Of The Sea - A Nightmare Dream By Daylight Do you know the Old Man of the Sea, of the Sea? 52167
261: The Old Player The curtain rose; in thunders long and loud 120179
262: The Old Tune - Thirty-Sixth Variation This shred of song you bid me bring 1886 28163
263: The Only Daughter They bid me strike the idle strings, 80181
264: The Opening Of The Piano In the little southern parlor of the house you may have seen 28187
265: The Organ-Blower Devoutest of My Sunday friends, 50184
266: The Parting Song - Festival Of The Alumni, 1857 The noon of summer sheds its ray 29157
267: The Parting Word I must leave thee, lady sweet 72183
268: The Peau De Chagrin Of State Street How beauteous is the bond 12160
269: The Philosopher To His Love Dearest, a look is but a ray 36178
270: The Pilgrim's Vision In the hour of twilight shadows 136166
271: The Ploughman Clear the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam! 58172
272: The Poet's Lot What is a poet's love? 28185
273: The Promise Not charity we ask, 1859 28172
274: The Rose And The Fern Lady, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn, 15235
275: The School-Boy These hallowed precincts, long to memory dear, 354181
276: The Secret Of The Stars - From Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel Is man's the only throbbing heart that hides 104179
277: The September Gale I'm not a chicken; I have seen 56171
278: The Shadows How many have gone?" was the question of old 1880 40157
279: The Ship Of State - A Sentiment The Ship of State! above her skies are blue, 20208
280: The Silent Melody Bring me my broken harp," he said; 60168
281: The Smiling Listener Precisely. I see it. You all want to say 1871 76174
282: The Spectre Pig - A Ballad It was the stalwart butcher man, 116172
283: The Star And The Water-Lily The sun stepped down from his golden throne. 48182
284: The Statesman's Secret - From Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel Who of all statesmen is his country's pride, 83161
285: The Steamboat See how yon flaming herald treads 56163
286: The Stethoscope Song - A Professional Ballad There was a young man in Boston town, 96212
287: The Study Yet in the darksome crypt I left so late, 86181
288: The Sweet Little Man Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles, 60201
289: The Toadstool There's a thing that grows by the fainting flower, 32191
290: The Treadmill Song The stars are rolling in the sky, 40168
291: The Two Armies As Life's unending column pours, 44191
292: The Two Streams Behold the rocky wall 20236
293: The Voiceless We count the broken lyres that rest 24181
294: The Wasp And The Hornet The two proud sisters of the sea, 24185
295: The World's Homage If every tongue that speaks her praise 56169
296: Thus Saith The Lord, I Offer Thee Three Things. In poisonous dens, where traitors hide 1862 36165
297: To A Blank Sheet Of Paper Wan-Visaged thing! thy virgin leaf 44186
298: To A Caged Lion Poor conquered monarch! though that haughty glance 24175
299: To An English Friend The seed that wasteful autumn cast 1852 26186
300: To An Insect I Love to hear thine earnest voice, 48177
301: To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg For His "Jubilaeum" At Berlin, November 5, 1868 Thou who hast taught the teachers of mankind 48174
302: To Frederick Henry Hedge Fit emblem for the altar's side, 32179
303: To George Peabody Bankrupt! our pockets inside out! 1866 16182
304: To Governor Swain Dear Governor, if my skiff might brave 1851 50173
305: To H. W. Longfellow - Before His Departure For Europe, May 27, 1868 Our Poet, who has taught the Western breeze 35166
306: To James Freeman Clarke I bring the simplest pledge of love, 1880 44167
307: To James Russell Lowell This is your month, the month of "perfect days," 66161
308: To John Greenleaf Whittier On His Eightieth Birthday Friend, whom thy fourscore winters leave more dear 1887 14163
309: To My Old Readers - From Readings Over The Teacups - Five Stories And A Sequel You know "The Teacups," that congenial set 90186
310: To My Readers Nay, blame me not; I might have spared 1862 48181
311: To R. B. H. How to address him? awkward, it is true 1877 32158
312: To The Eleven Ladies Who gave this cup?" The secret thou wouldst steal 32154
313: To The Poets Who Only Read And Listen When evening's shadowy fingers fold 20165
314: To The Portrait Of "A Gentleman" In The Athenieum Gallery It may be so, - perhaps thou hast 52163
315: To The Portrait Of "A Lady" In The Athenaeum Gallery Well, Miss, I wonder where you live, 32170
316: Too Young For Love Too young for love? 18165
317: Two Sonnets: Harvard To GOD'S ANOINTED AND HIS CHOSEN FLOCK 28158
318: Under The Violets Her hands are cold; her face is white; 40165
319: Under The Washington Elm, Cambridge Eighty years have passed, and more, 1861 25159
320: Union And Liberty Flag of the heroes who left us their glory, 35167
321: Unsatisfied Only a housemaid!" She looked from the kitchen, 1876 12177
322: Verses For After-Dinner Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1844 I was thinking last night, as I sat in the cars, 60176
323: Verses From The Oldest Portfolio - First Verses - Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1824 Or 1825 The god looked out upon the troubled deep 38157
324: Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum - An Academic Poem While fond, sad memories all around us throng, 162152
325: Voyage Of The Good Ship Union T is midnight: through my troubled dream 1862 96156
326: Welcome To The Chicago Commercial Club Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse; 1880 32165
327: Welcome To The Grand Duke Alexis Shadowed so long by the storm-cloud of danger, 1871 16166
328: Welcome To The Nations Bright on the banners of lily and rose 1876 24158
329: What I Have Come For I have come with my verses - I think I may claim 1873 24177
330: What We All Think That age was older once than now, 40164
331: Wind-Clouds And Star-Drifts Another clouded night; the stars are hid, 853211




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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American fireside poets of the 19th century.


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