Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O. W. HOLMES ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing a path which leads back never more Last Line: Life is not less, the heavens are only nigher! Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) | ||||||||
CLIMBING a path which leads back never more We heard behind his footsteps and his cheer; Now, face to face, we greet him standing here Upon the lonely summit of Fourscore! Welcome to us, o'er whom the lengthened day Is closing and the shadows colder grow, His genial presence, like an afterglow, Following the one just vanishing away. Long be it ere the table shall be set For the last breakfast of the Autocrat, And love repeat with smiles and tears thereat His own sweet songs that time shall not forget. Waiting with us the call to come up higher, Life is not less, the heavens are only nigher! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN EPISTLE TO DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; ON HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE TO O.W. HOLMES; ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE TO O.W. HOLMES ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON OUR AUTOCRAT by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (WHITTIER'S LAST POEM) by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE FILLING AN ORDER by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE AMY WENTWORTH; FOR WILLIAM BRADFORD by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER AN AUTOGRAPH (1) by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |
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