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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: holmes, oliver Matches Found: 397 Holmes, Oliver Wendell Poet's Biography 397 poems available by this author A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773] Poem Text First Line: No! Never such a draught was poured Last Line: And cheer the wakening nations! Subject(s): Boston Tea Party; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - Colonial Period; Liberty A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE; TO J.F. CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Who is the shepherd sent to lead Last Line: And sigh more love than ours can tell. Subject(s): Birthdays; Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888) A FAMILIAR LETTER TO SEVERAL CORRESPONDENTS Poem Text First Line: Yes, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying Last Line: And music must cure you, so pipe it yourself. Subject(s): Mnemonics A FAMILY RECORD Poem Text First Line: Not to myself this breath of vesper song Last Line: Take my last offering ere I cross to thee! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers & Sons; Heritage; Heredity A FAREWELL TO AGASSIZ; WRITTEN ON EVE OF JOURNEY TO BRAZIL Poem Text First Line: How the mountains talked together Last Line: Bless them now and evermore! Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Brazil; Farewell; Science; Brazilians; Parting; Scientists A GOOD TIME GOING; ADDRESSED TO CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text First Line: Brave singer of the coming time Last Line: Our mothers' soil, our fathers' glory! Subject(s): Mackay, Charles (1814-1889) A LOVING-CUP SONG Poem Text First Line: Come, heap the fagots! Ere we go Last Line: Till life and love are spent. A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE Poem Text First Line: Leader of armies, isreal's god Last Line: That shaped thy task below. Subject(s): Howe, Samuel Gridley (1801-1876) A MODEST REQUEST Poem Text First Line: Scene, - a back parlor in a certain square Last Line: In one fair bumper let us toast them all! A NOONTIDE LYRIC Poem Text First Line: The dinner-bell, the dinner-bell Last Line: And dangle from the beam! A PARODY ON A PSALM OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: Life is real, life is earnest Last Line: When he sees, shall crow again. A PARTING HEALTH; TO J.L. MOTLEY Poem Text First Line: Yes, we knew we must lose him, - though friendship may claim Last Line: Love bless him, joy crown him, god speed his career! Subject(s): Motley, John Lothrop (1814-1877) A POEM FOR THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Poem Text First Line: I hold a letter in my hand Last Line: From northern pines to southern roses! A POEM SERVED TO ORDER Poem Text First Line: The caliph ordered up his cook Last Line: An eel, and not a salmon! Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery A POEM: DEDICATION OF THE PITTSFIELD CEMETARY Poem Text First Line: Angel of death! Extend thy silent reign! Last Line: And a new morning brings eternal day! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards A PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: A still, sweet, placid, moonlight face Last Line: It mocked them when they sighed. Subject(s): Portraits A RHYMED LESSON (URANIA) Poem Text First Line: Yes, dear enchantress, wandering far and long Last Line: "live as they lived, or perish as they died!'" A ROMAN AQUEDUCT Poem Text First Line: The sun-browned girl, whose limbs recline Last Line: Falls on the arches of her pride! A SEA DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Friend, you seem thoughtful. I not wonder much Last Line: Ay, ay, sir! Stiddy, sir! Sou'wes'b'sou'! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean A SENTIMENT (1) Poem Text First Line: The pledge of friendship! It is still divine Last Line: And genial nature still defy reform! Subject(s): Friendship A SENTIMENT (2) Poem Text First Line: A triple health to friendship, science, art Last Line: And soothes the pang no anodyne may calm! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors A SONG FOR THE CENTENIAL CELEBRATION OF HARVARD COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: When the puritans came over Last Line: The british found so rough! Subject(s): Harvard University A SONG OF OTHER DAYS Poem Text First Line: As o'er the glacier's frozen sheet Last Line: Shall loudest laugh and sing. A SONG OF TWENTY-NINE Poem Text First Line: The summer dawn is breaking Last Line: Of the boys of '29! Subject(s): Classmates; Harvard University; Schoolmates A SOUVENIR Poem Text First Line: Yes, lady! I can ne'er forget Last Line: Shall be this flattering lay of mine! A SUN-DAY HYMN [OR LAMENT] Poem Text First Line: Lord of all being! Throned afar Last Line: One holy light, one heavenly flame! Variant Title(s): The Lord Is My Light Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A TOAST TO WILKIE COLLINS Poem Text First Line: The painter's and the poet's fame Last Line: Painter and poet, both in one! Subject(s): Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889) A VOICE OF THE LOYAL NORTH Poem Text First Line: We sing 'our country's' song tonight Last Line: God keep us all! Amen! Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates A WELCOME TO DR. BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD Poem Text First Line: Once more orion and the sister seven Last Line: We bid thee welcome to thine earthly home! Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1824-1896) AD AMICOS' First Line: The muse of boyhood's fervid hour ADDRESS FOR THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Poem Text First Line: Hang out our banners on the stately tower! Last Line: Friends, lovers, listeners! Welcome one and all! Subject(s): New York City - Theaters AESTIVATION Poem Text First Line: In candent ire the solar splendor flames Last Line: Depart, -- be off, -- excede, -- evade, -- erump! Variant Title(s): Intramural Aestivation; Or Summer In Town;aestivation: An Unpublished Poem Of My Late Latin Tutor Subject(s): Nonsense AFTER A LECTURE ON KEATS Poem Text First Line: The wreath that star-crowned shelley gave Last Line: Shall lie upon that roman grave! Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets AFTER A LECTURE ON MOORE Poem Text First Line: Shine soft, ye trembling tears of light Last Line: That ravished mortal ears! Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) AFTER A LECTURE ON SHELLEY Poem Text First Line: One broad, white sail in spezzia's treacherous bay Last Line: Say not that mercy has not one for him! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) AFTER A LECTURE ON WORDSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Come, spread your wings, as I spread mine Last Line: Earth's last sweet even-song! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) AFTER THE CURFEW Poem Text First Line: The play is over. While the light Last Line: Farewell! I let the curtain fall. Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates AFTER THE FIRE [NOVEMBER 9, 1872] Poem Text First Line: While far along the eastern sky Last Line: The cloudless azure whence they came! Subject(s): Boston Fire (1872) AGNES Poem Text First Line: The tale I tell is gospel true Last Line: This tale of olden time! ALBUM VERSES Poem Text First Line: When eve had led her lord away Last Line: And so they wink forever. Variant Title(s): Why They Twinkle ALL HERE Poem Text First Line: It is not what we say or sing Last Line: "in pace. How they loved each other!" Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates AMERICA TO RUSSIA Poem Text First Line: Though watery deserts hold apart Last Line: We moor our hearts in thee! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AMERICAN ACADEMY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Poem Text First Line: Sire, son, and grandson; so the century glides Last Line: Its wiser sages talk, its sweeter minstrels sing! AN AFTER DINNER POEM (TERPSICHORE) Poem Text First Line: In narrowest girdle, o reluctant muse Last Line: Thy daring steps and dangerous pirouettes! AN APPEAL FOR 'THE OLD SOUTH' Poem Text First Line: Full sevenscore years our city's pride Last Line: Help, each, and god help all! Subject(s): Old South Church, Boston AN EVENING THOUGHT; WRITTEN AT SEA Poem Text First Line: If sometimes in the dark blue eye Last Line: Of love, or song, or wine! AN IMPROMPTU; ... FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE GREAT ORGAN Poem Text First Line: I asked three little maidens who heard the organ play Last Line: "and what you heard last evening were seraph lips and lyres!" Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) AN IMPROMPTU; NOT PREMEDITATED Poem Text First Line: The clock has struck noon; ere it thrice tell the hours Last Line: Till our twentieth sweet summer was smiling again! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates AN OLD-YEAR SONG Poem Text First Line: As through the forest, disarrayed Last Line: Sing, little bird! 't will soon be night. ARMY HYMN; 'OLD HUNDRED' Poem Text First Line: O lord of hosts! Almighty king! Last Line: Join our loud anthem, praise to thee! Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History ASTRAEA: THE BALANCE OF ILLUSIONS First Line: What secret charm, long whispering in mine ear AT A BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL; TO J.R. LOWELL Poem Text First Line: We will not speak of years to-night Last Line: Round nature's last eclipse! Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets AT A DINNER TO ADMIRAL FARRAGUT Poem Text First Line: Now, smiling friends and shipmates all Last Line: To fight his battles o'er! Subject(s): Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870) AT A DINNER TO GENERAL GRANT Poem Text First Line: When treason first began the strife Last Line: Our nation found its man! Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) AT A MEETING OF FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: I remember - why, yes! God bless me! Last Line: The youth of his fifty summers he finds in his twenty friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Middle Age AT MY FIRESIDE Poem Text First Line: Alone, beneath the darkened sky Last Line: Flames on the windows of the past. AT THE 'ATLANTIC DINNER' Poem Text First Line: I suppose it's myself that you're making allusion to Last Line: "all read the ""atlantic"" as persons of culture do!" Subject(s): Atlantic Monthly (magazine) AT THE BANQUET TO THE CHINESE EMBASSY Poem Text First Line: Brothers, whom we may not reach Last Line: To swell the rushing hoang-ho! Subject(s): China AT THE BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS Poem Text First Line: One word to the guest we have gathered to greet Last Line: How we utter farewell, he will have to return! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AT THE BANQUET TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY Poem Text First Line: We welcome you, lords of the land of the sun! Last Line: You are welcome! -- the song of the cagebird is done. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese AT THE CLOSE OF A COURSE OF LECTURES Poem Text First Line: As the voice of the watch to the mariner's dream Last Line: We will seal the bright spring with a quiet farewell. AT THE PANTOMIME Poem Text First Line: The house was crammed from roof to floor Last Line: "peace be upon thee, israel!" Subject(s): Pantomime AT THE PAPYRUS CLUB Poem Text First Line: A lovely show for eyes to see Last Line: Are perched amid the sparrows! AT THE SATURDAY CLUB Poem Text First Line: This is our place of meeting; opposite Last Line: Of buried friendships; blest is he who dreams! Subject(s): Saturday Club AT THE TURN OF THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: The glory has passed from the goldenrod's plume Last Line: As we met, face to face, at the turn of the road! AT THE UNITARIAN FESTIVAL Poem Text First Line: The waves unbuild the wasting shore Last Line: A fairer throne on new-found shores. Subject(s): Unitarianism; Unitarians AUNT TABITHA; THE YOUNG GIRL'S POEM Poem Text First Line: Whatever I do, and whatever I say Last Line: Aunt tabitha'll tell me she never did so! Subject(s): Aunts AVE Poem Text First Line: Full well I know the frozen hand has come Last Line: And warm their hearts with sunbeams yet unspent! AVIS Poem Text First Line: I may not rightly call thy name Last Line: To hallow this unstudied song! BENJAMIN PEIRCE; ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN Poem Text First Line: For him the architect of all Last Line: Whose sun is god, whose light is love. Subject(s): Classmates; Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880); Schoolmates BEST ROOM' First Line: There was a parlor in the house, a room BILL AND JOE Poem Text First Line: Come, dear old comrade, you and I Last Line: Hic jacet joe. Hic jacet bill. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Schoolmates BIRTHDAY OF DANIEL WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: When life hath run its largest round Last Line: On the blue tablet of the deep! Subject(s): Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) BOSTON COMMON: 1630 Poem Text First Line: All overgrown with bush and fern Last Line: The parson on his brindled bull! Subject(s): Boston BOSTON COMMON: 1774 Poem Text First Line: The streets are thronged with trampling feet Last Line: The pipe-clayed belts of gage's men. Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston BOSTON COMMON: 1869 Poem Text First Line: Around the green, in morning light Last Line: He led our sires who won them all! Subject(s): Boston BOSTON TO FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: Proud of her clustering spires, her new-built towers Last Line: And every language knows the song divine! Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Florence, Italy BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE [DECEMBER 2O, 1860] Poem Text First Line: She has gone, - she has left us in passion and pride Last Line: Remember the pathway that leads to our door! Subject(s): Patriotism; South Carolina; State Rights; War; Secession BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: O even-handed nature! We confess Last Line: And every white-throned star fixed in its lost abode! Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets BUT ONE TALENT Poem Text First Line: Ye who yourselves of larger worth esteem Last Line: Thank heaven I had so few! CACOETHES SCRIBENDI Poem Text First Line: If all the trees in all the woods were men Last Line: Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink Subject(s): Writing & Writers CHANSON WITHOUT MUSIC Poem Text First Line: You bid me sing, - can I forget Last Line: "dum ille clamat, ""dos pou sto!" Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY WHOM YE WILL SERVE' First Line: Yes, tyrants, you hate us, and fear while you hate CHURCH BELLS Poem Text First Line: The air is hushed; the street is holy ground Last Line: His heart lies warm among his triple hills! Subject(s): Bells; Boston; Churches; Cathedrals CITY AND COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Come back to your mother, ye children, for shame Last Line: And the best of old -- water -- at nothing a glass. Variant Title(s): City Men In The Country;lines Recited At The Berkshire Jubilee, Pittsfield, Mass. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts CONTENTMENT; 'MAN WANTS BUT LITTLE HERE BELOW Poem Text First Line: Little I ask; my wants are few CONTENTMENT; 'MAN WANTS BUT LITTLE HERE BELOW' First Line: Little I ask; my wants are few DAILY TRIALS, BY A SENSITIVE MAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, there are times Last Line: But in their graves. DANIEL WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: When, stricken by the freezing blast Last Line: On the blue tablet of the deep! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) DE SAUTY; AN ELCTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Tell me, o provincial! Speak, ceruleo-nasal! Last Line: "cry, ""all right! De sauty." Subject(s): Atlantic Cable DEAL GENTLY WITH US, YE WHO READ! DEPARTED DAYS Poem Text First Line: Yes, dear departed, cherished days Last Line: Day breaks, -- and where are we? DOROTHY Q; A FAMILY PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: Grandmother's mother: her age I guess Last Line: Through a second youth of a hundred years. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Quincy, Dorothy; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers EARTH-BORN SAINT First Line: O blissful dream! Our nursery joys EDWARD EVERETT ('OUR FIRST CITIZEN'); MEMORIAL VERSES Poem Text First Line: Winter's cold drift lies glistening o'er his breast Last Line: "died with the tribute of a nation's tears." Subject(s): Everett, Edward (1794-1865) EPILOGUE TO THE BREAKFAST-TABLE SERIES Poem Text First Line: A crazy bookcase, placed before Last Line: Not bad, my bargain! Price one dime! ETERNAL TRUTH EVEN-SONG Poem Text First Line: It may be, yes, it must be, time that brings Last Line: All gathered here! All! All! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates EVENING, BY A TAILOR Poem Text First Line: Day hath put on his jacket, and around Last Line: Where I can coil them in their wonted fashion. Subject(s): Tailors; Dress Makers EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM: A PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: Thoughtful in youth, but not austere in age Last Line: And love renewing kept him ever young. EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM: A SENTIMENT Poem Text First Line: Life is but a song Last Line: And life shall lengthen with the joy it brings! EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM: THE STABILITY OF SCIENCE Poem Text First Line: The feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms Last Line: When fluttering folly flaps on walls like these? Subject(s): Physicians; Science; Doctors; Scientists F.W.C. Poem Text First Line: Fast as the rolling seasons bring Last Line: Dear friends, a classmate never dies! Subject(s): Classmates; Crocker, Frederick William; Schoolmates FAITH SHALL BUILD A FAIRER THRONE Subject(s): Religion FANTASIA; THE YOUNG GIRL'S POEM Poem Text First Line: Kiss mine eyelids, beauteous morn Last Line: Borrowing all its light from thee! FAREWELL TO J. R. LOWELL Poem Text First Line: Farewell, for the bark has her breast to the tide Last Line: As we empty our hearts of the blessings they hold. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farewell; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets; Parting FATHER OF ALL! IN DEATH'S RELENTLESS CLAIM FIRST APPEARANCE IN TYPE First Line: Ah, here it is! I'm famous now FOR CLASS MEETING Poem Text First Line: It is a pity and a shame Last Line: Himself shall sunder it! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates FOR SERVICES IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN; MEMORIAL VERSES Poem Text First Line: O thou of soul and sense and breath Last Line: And bless thy name forever! Variant Title(s): Hymn For The Services In Memory Of Abraham Lincoln Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States FOR THE BURNS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Poem Text First Line: His birthday. - nay, we need not speak Last Line: The mountain-mist of glory! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets FOR THE CENTENNIAL DINNER Poem Text First Line: Dear friends, we are strangers; we never before Last Line: And thy dividends flow like the waves of the sea! Subject(s): Boston; Wharves; Piers FOR THE COMMEMORATION SERVICES; MEMORIAL VERSES Poem Text First Line: Four summers coined their golden light in leaves Last Line: Living and dead alike forever dear! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CITY LIBRARY, BOSTON Poem Text First Line: Proudly, beneath her glittering dome Last Line: The queen, the handmaid of them all! Subject(s): Boston; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians FOR THE MEETING OF THE BURNS CLUB Poem Text First Line: The mountains glitter in the snow Last Line: The thames, the clyde, the shannon! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets FOR THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL SANITARY ASSOCIAITON Poem Text First Line: What makes the healing art divine? Last Line: The shield is nobler than the spear! Subject(s): Disease; Science; Scientists FOR THE MOORE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Poem Text First Line: Enchanter of erin, whose magic has bound us Last Line: Shall wreathe her bright harp with the garlands of moore! Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) FOR THE WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S Poem Text First Line: Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here Last Line: Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FOR WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: I believe that the copies of verses I've spun Last Line: Till we've paid him in love half the balance we owe! Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) FRANCIS PARKMAN Poem Text First Line: He rests from toil; the portals of the tomb Last Line: His name will shine among its morning stars. Subject(s): Parkman, Francis (1823-1893) FREEDOM! SWEET FREEDOM! OUR VOICES RESOUND FREEDOM, OUR QUEEN Poem Text First Line: Land where the banners wave last in the sun Last Line: She shall reign over us, world without end! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence Day; Liberty FROM A BACHELOR'S PRIVATE JOURNAL Poem Text First Line: Sweet mary, I have never breathed Last Line: May bless thee when those chords are still. GOD BLESS THE ANCIENT PURITANS GOD SAVE THE FLAG Poem Text First Line: Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming Last Line: Washed from its stains in the blood of the brave! Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; United States - History; American Flag GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE Poem Text First Line: Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers Last Line: All are here! Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston; Bunker Hill, Battle Of H.C.M. H.S. J.K.W Poem Text First Line: The dirge is played, the throbbing death-peal rung Last Line: Welcome, ye shadowy forms, we count you still our own! Subject(s): Classmates; Meriam, Horatio Cook; Sargent, Howard; Waite, Josiah Kendall; Schoolmates HARVARD Poem Text First Line: Changeless in beauty, rose-hues on her cheek Last Line: And on thy forehead place the new world's crown. Subject(s): Harvard University HOMESICK IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Go seek thine earth-born sisters, - thus the voice Last Line: And sorrow's discords sweeten into song! Subject(s): Heaven; Homesickness; Paradise HOPE First Line: Hope, only hope, of all that clings HOW NOT TO SETTLE IT Poem Text First Line: I like, at times, to hear the steeples' chimes Last Line: Pull up our stakes and migrate to dahomey! HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET Poem Text First Line: Twas on the famous trotting-ground Last Line: A horse can trot, for all he's old. Subject(s): Horse Racing HUMBOLDT'S BIRTHDAY; CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Poem Text First Line: Ere yet the warning chimes of midnight sound Last Line: "hero of knowledge, be our tribute thine!" Subject(s): Humboldt, Alexander Von (1769-1859); Napoleon I (1769-1821) HYMN - THE WORD OF PROMISE Poem Text First Line: Lord, thou hast led us as of old Last Line: One god and father over all! HYMN AFTER THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Poem Text First Line: Giver of all that crowns our days Last Line: With peace on earth, good-will to men! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF CHARLES SUMNER Poem Text First Line: Once more, ye sacred towers Last Line: "god reigneth. All is well!" Subject(s): Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) HYMN FOR THE CLASS-MEETING Poem Text First Line: Thou gracious power, whose mercy lends Last Line: Thy peace be with us evermore! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates HYMN FOR THE DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL HALL AT CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Where, girt around by savage foes Last Line: Their glory be forever thine! Subject(s): Harvard University HYMN FOR THE FAIR AT CHICAGO Poem Text First Line: O god! In danger's darkest hour Last Line: And all the earth is thine. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History HYMN FOR THE INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF .. ANDREW HINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Behold the shape our eyes have known! Last Line: A nation claims him as her own! Subject(s): Statues HYMN FOR THE SAME OCCASION Poem Text First Line: O'ershadowed by the walls that climb Last Line: Be glory now and evermore! Subject(s): King's Chapel, Harvard University HYMN OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: Angel of peace, thou hast wandered too long! Last Line: Angels of bethlehem, echo the strain! Subject(s): Peace HYMN OF TRUST Poem Text First Line: O love divine, that stooped to share Last Line: Living and dying, thou art near! Subject(s): Prayer HYMN READ AT DEDICATION OF THE OLIVER W. HOLMES HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Angel of love, for every grief Last Line: Be thine the glory and the praise! Subject(s): Hospitals HYMN WRITTEN FOR ... BOSTON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION Poem Text First Line: Our father! While our hearts unlearn Last Line: And nobler work to do! Subject(s): Youth HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE GREAT CENTRAL FAIR IN PHILADELPHIA Poem Text First Line: Father, send on earth again Last Line: Faithful to freedom and thee. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History HYMN: CELEBRATION LAYING CORNER-STONE HARVARD MEMORIAL HALL Poem Text First Line: Not with the anguish of hearts that are breaking Last Line: Crowned with the dome that is over us all! Subject(s): Harvard University I HAVE NEVER DEEMED IT SIN TO GLADDEN THIS VALE OF I LIKE YOU AND I LOVE YOU Poem Text First Line: I like you met I love you, face to face Last Line: And first he slew I love you, -- then himself. ILLUSTRATION OF A PICTURE; A SPANISH GIRL IN REVERIE Poem Text First Line: She twirled the string of golden beads Last Line: I saw her wipe a tear. IN MEMORY OF CHARLES WENTWORTH UPHAM, JR. Poem Text First Line: He was all sunshine; in his face Last Line: Trust in his word; thy dead shall rise! Subject(s): Friendship IN MEMORY OF JOHN AND ROBERT WARE Poem Text First Line: No mystic charm, no mortal art Last Line: Its broken chain. Subject(s): Physicians; Ware, John (1795-1864); Ware, Robert; Doctors IN MEMORY OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text First Line: Thou, too, hast left us. While with heads bowed low Last Line: These words, -- he needs no more, -- here whittier lies. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) IN RESPONSE Poem Text First Line: Such kindness! The scowl of a cynic would soften Last Line: And read all they mean in a sunshiny smile. IN THE TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Not bed-time yet! The night-winds blow Last Line: Good-night! And not good-by! Variant Title(s): Before The Curfew Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The IN THINE ARMS First Line: Our families in thine arms enfold Last Line: As thou didst keep thy folks of old Subject(s): Religion INTERNATIONAL ODE; OUR FATHER'S LAND Poem Text First Line: God bless our father's land! Last Line: Great king of kings! Subject(s): England; English INVITA MINERVA Poem Text First Line: Vex not the muse with idle prayers Last Line: While memory sighs and sings. Subject(s): Rhyme IRIS, HER BOOK Poem Text First Line: I pray thee by the soul of her that bore thee Last Line: No more! She leaves her memory in thy keeping. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IRIS, SELS. First Line: If she had - well! She longed, and knew not wherefore Subject(s): Love J.D.R. Poem Text First Line: The friends that are, and friends that were Last Line: He loved me -- and is gone! Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Russell, James Dutton; Schoolmates; Dead, The JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text First Line: Thou shouldst have sung the swan-song for the choir Last Line: And grateful memory guard thy leafy shrine! Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JOSEPH WARREN, M.D Poem Text First Line: Trained in the holy art whose lifted shield Last Line: Where freedom's victory in defeat was found. Subject(s): Warren, Joseph (1741-1775) KING'S CHAPEL Poem Text First Line: Is it a weanling's weakness for the past Last Line: They shaped our future; we but carve their names. Subject(s): King's Chapel, Harvard University L'INCONNUE Poem Text First Line: Is thy name mary, maiden fair? Last Line: Forget, despise, but not reveal! Subject(s): Names LA GRISETTE Poem Text First Line: Ah, clemence! When I saw thee last Last Line: The wreaths of pere-la-chaise! LA MAISON D'OR (BAR HARBOR) Poem Text First Line: From this fair home behold on either side Last Line: Their silent promise of eternal peace. LATTER-DAY WARNINGS Poem Text First Line: When legislators keep the law Last Line: Then order your ascension robe! LEXINGTON [APRIL 19, 1775] Poem Text First Line: Slowly the mist o'er the meadow was creeping Last Line: Floats the fair emblem her heroes have won! Subject(s): American Revolution; Lexington, Battle Of (1775); Concord, Battle Of LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: The reverend henry ward beecher Last Line: And thus did the hen reward beecher. Variant Title(s): Eggstravagance Subject(s): Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887); Clergy; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops LINES Poem Text First Line: I'm ashamed, - that's the fact, - it's a pitiful case Last Line: That youth fitted round in his circle of fire! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates LINES BY A CLERK Poem Text First Line: Oh! I did love her dearly Last Line: And not the hand that bore it. LIVING, THOU DOST NOT LIVE LUCY'; FOR HER GOLDEN WEDDING First Line: Lucy.' - the old familiar name MANY THINGS Poem Text First Line: O, there be many things Last Line: Is half so sweet as love. Subject(s): Love MARE RUBRUM Poem Text First Line: Flash out a stream of blood-red wine Last Line: The wedding wine of galilee! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates MARTHA; DIED JANUARY 7, 1861 Poem Text First Line: Sexton! Martha's dead and gone Last Line: Toll the bell! Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids MEETING OF THE ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: I thank you, mr. President, you've kindly broke the ice Last Line: "and ""expectantur"" all mankind, to take their last degree!" Subject(s): Harvard University MIDSUMMER Poem Text First Line: Here! Sweep these foolish leaves away Last Line: In sweeter music dies away. Subject(s): Nature; Summer MUSA Poem Text First Line: O my lost beauty! - hast thou folded quite Last Line: "and hear once more the voice that breathed ""forever thine!" MY ANNUAL Poem Text First Line: How long will this harp which you once loved to hear Last Line: We echo its wrods, -- we are one! We are one! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates MY AUNT Poem Text First Line: My aunt! My dear unmarried aunt! / long years have over her flown Last Line: On my ancestral tree. Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old Maids MY AVIARY Poem Text First Line: Through my north window, in the wintry weather Last Line: In fact with nothing bird-like but my quill. Subject(s): Birds; Nature NEARING THE SNOW LINE Poem Text First Line: Slow toiling upward from the misty vale Last Line: And all the unclouded blue of heaven is thine! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing NEVER OR NOW; AN APPEAL Poem Text First Line: Listen, young heroes! Your country is calling! Last Line: Hear the last angel-trump, -- never or now! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NEW HAIL COLUMBIA Poem Text First Line: Look our ransomed shores around Last Line: Find the many still are one! Variant Title(s): Additional Verses To Hail Columbia Subject(s): United States; America NO TIME LIKE THE OLD TIME Poem Text First Line: There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young Last Line: There are no loves like our old loves, -- god bless our loving wives! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love NON-RESISTANCE Poem Text First Line: Perhaps too far in these considerate days Last Line: From bellowing fort and thunder-freighted keel! NUX POSTCOENATICA Poem Text First Line: I was sitting with my microscope, upon my parlor rug Last Line: But will keep dropping in again to see the dear old crater. Subject(s): Science; Scientists O WHAT ARE THE PRIZES WE PERISH TO WIN ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER Poem Text First Line: Come! Fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go Last Line: Oliver wendell holmes. Subject(s): Censorship; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition ODE FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Welcome to the day returning Last Line: Trust us, while we honor thee! Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) OF A PORTRAIT First Line: I love sweet features, I will own OF CHURCH ATTENDANCE: THERE IS A LITTLE PLANT CALLED OLD AMATI First Line: Violins, too OLD CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: And can it be you've found a place Last Line: As all the world shall know! Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) OLD IRONSIDES Poem Text First Line: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down Last Line: The lightning and the gale! Subject(s): Americans; Boats; Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Sea; United States; American Navy; Ocean; America ON LENDING A PUNCH BOWL Poem Text First Line: This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times Last Line: "have you been?" Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD Poem Text First Line: Fallen with autumn's falling leaf Last Line: A nation bowed, a world in tears. Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) ON THE THRESHOLD Poem Text First Line: An usher standing at the door Last Line: And founts and flowers are all your own! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ONCE MORE Poem Text First Line: Will I come? That is pleasant! I beg to inquire Last Line: And then stand at ease, for my service is done. Subject(s): Classmates; Memory; Schoolmates ONE COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: One country! Treason's writhing asp Last Line: One country now and evermore! Subject(s): United States; America ONE KINDLY DEED MAY TURN. OPENING THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Thus I lift the sash, so long Last Line: Go, like uncle toby's fly! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OUR BANKER Poem Text First Line: Old time, in whose bank we deposit our notes Last Line: "till he squares his account with the last of ""the boys." Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates OUR DEAD SINGER Poem Text First Line: Pride of the sister realm so long our own Last Line: His lips are hushed; his song shall never die. Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) OUR HOME - OUR COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Your home was mine, - kind nature's gift Last Line: "I am a cambridge boy!" Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts OUR HYMN Poem Text First Line: At morning's call Last Line: These are our hymn. OUR INDIAN SUMMER Poem Text First Line: You'll believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise Last Line: While we've youth in our hearts we can never grow old! Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Schoolmates OUR LIMITATIONS Poem Text First Line: We trust and fear, we question and believe Last Line: That worlds unseen surround the world we know. OUR OLDEST FRIEND Poem Text First Line: I give you the health of the oldest friend Last Line: As bald and as wise and as tough as he! Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Schoolmates OUR SWEET SINGER Poem Text First Line: One memory trembles on our lips Last Line: Thou shouldst thyself have sung! Subject(s): Angier, Joseph; Classmates; Schoolmates OUR YANKEE GIRLS Poem Text First Line: Lest greener lands and bluer skies Last Line: God bless our yankee girls! Subject(s): Girls; New England PARSON TURELL'S LEGACY; OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR Poem Text First Line: Facts respecting an old arm-chair Last Line: And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will! Subject(s): Chairs PARTING HYMN; 'DUNDEE' Poem Text First Line: Father of mercies, heavenly friend Last Line: Rule thou our throneless land! Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History PERSEVERANCE First Line: Stick to your aim: the mongrel's hold will slip PLEASURES THOU HAST PLANNED POEM FOR THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY - FOUNDING OF HARVARD COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: Twice had the mellowing sun of autumn crowded Last Line: Would that my tribute worthier were of thee! POEM FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE FOUNTAIN AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON Poem Text First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome is thy silvery gleam Last Line: And love make one the old home and the new! Subject(s): Fountains POEM: AT CENTENNIAL DINNER OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY Poem Text First Line: Three paths there be where learning's favored sons Last Line: Ye served your brothers; ye have served your lord! Subject(s): Learning; Physicians; Doctors POEM: AT THE DEDICATION OF THE HALLECK MONUMENT Poem Text First Line: Say not the poet dies! Last Line: His soul the air enshrines and leaves but dust below! Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867) POEM: READ AT THE DINNER GIVEN BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION Poem Text First Line: Have I deserved your kindness? Nay, my friends Last Line: But claim him, keep him, call him brother still! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors POESY First Line: There breathes no being but has some pretense Variant Title(s): Introduction To Poetr Subject(s): Art And Artists; Poetry And Poets POETRY. A METRICAL ESSAY Poem Text First Line: Scenes of my youth! Awake its slumbering fire! Last Line: Coiled the last whirlpool of the drowning sphere! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POSTPRANDIAL Poem Text First Line: The dutch have taken holland,' so the schoolboys used to say Last Line: Another hans as handsome, -- as bright a man as he! Subject(s): Harvard University; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903); Netherlands; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Holland; Dutch People PRELUDE Poem Text First Line: I'm the fellah that tole one day Last Line: Here sh' goes for hit 'm ag'in! PRELUDE TO A VOLUME PRINTED IN RAISED LETTERS FOR THE BLIND Poem Text First Line: Dear friends, left darkling in the long eclipse Last Line: A dewdrop fresh from heaven's own chalice hold. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped PROGRAMME Poem Text First Line: Reader - gentle - if so be Last Line: Benedicite. -- amen! PROLOGUE First Line: A prologue? Well, of course the ladies know Last Line: We die with love, and never dream we're dead! Variant Title(s): This Is I PROLOGUE TO SONGS IN MANY KEYS Poem Text First Line: The piping of our slender, peaceful reeds Last Line: On the wild winds that all around us blow. QUESTIONS First Line: Is there not something in the pleading eye Subject(s): Animals QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Poem Text First Line: Where, oh where are the visions of morning Last Line: Till the last pebble is dry. Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates QUI VIVE?' First Line: Qui vive?' the sentry's musket rings REAL TREE First Line: What a stange underground life is that Subject(s): Holidays; Trees REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN Poem Text First Line: I saw the curl of his waving lash Last Line: With the tandem that nature gave me! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Pedestrians REMEMBER - FORGET Poem Text First Line: And what shall be the song tonight Last Line: And down goes twenty-nine! Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Harvard University; Schoolmates RESPONSE TO A TOAST First Line: His honor's father yet remains Subject(s): Law And Lawyers RHYMES OF A LIFE-TIME Poem Text First Line: From the first gleam of morning to the gray Last Line: With plaintive measures from a worn-out lyre. RIP VAN WINKLE, M. D. Poem Text First Line: Old rip van winkle had a grandson rip Last Line: Our brother rip, m. M. S. S., m. D.! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors ROBINSON OF LEYDEN Poem Text First Line: He sleeps not here; in hope and prayer Last Line: Nor on the land-locked zuyder-zee! RUN IF YOU LIKE, BUT TRY TO KEEP YOUR BREATH SCHOOLBOY First Line: These hallowed precincts, long to memory dear SEMI-CENTENIAL CELEBRATION OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY Poem Text First Line: New england, we love thee; no time can erase Last Line: God bless all her children! Good night to you all! Subject(s): New England SHAKESPEARE; TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Poem Text First Line: Who claims our shakespeare from that realm unknown Last Line: Our nation's second morn! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHERMAN'S IN SAVANNAH [DECEMBER 22, 1864] Poem Text First Line: Like the tribes of israel Last Line: As it crowns savannah! Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History SONG FOR A TEMPERANCE DINNER TO WHICH LADIES WERE INVITED Poem Text First Line: A health to dear woman! She bids us untwine Last Line: It is countersigned nature. -- so, room for the girls! Subject(s): Temperance; Women; Prohibition SONG WRITTEN FOR THE DINNER GIVEN TO CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text First Line: The stars their early vigils keep Last Line: Our western skies in flame! Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) SPRING Poem Text First Line: Winter is past; the heart of nature warms Last Line: Dazzled and giddy in the morning's blaze! Subject(s): Spring SPRING HAS COME Poem Text First Line: The sunbeams, lost for half a year Last Line: To dream above, to sleep below! Subject(s): Spring ST. ANTHONY THE REFORMER; HIS TEMPTATION Poem Text First Line: No fear lest praise should make us proud Last Line: In laboring on thy crown of thorns! Subject(s): Reform & Reformers STANZAS Poem Text First Line: Strange! That one lightly whispered tone Last Line: But join two altars both in one. STRIVE WITH THE WANDERER FROM THE BETTER PATH SUN AND SHADOW Poem Text First Line: As I look from the isle, o'er its billow of green Last Line: Nor ask how we look from the shore! Subject(s): Naushon (island) TAILOR'S SOLILOQUY, SELS. First Line: Ah me! How lovely is the golden braid TALKS AND TREES First Line: And when terror and shrinking and deary Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TARTARUS Poem Text First Line: While in my simple gospel creed Last Line: On heaven's blue tablet, god is love! TATTERED ENSIGN First Line: We seek not strife, but when our outraged laws Subject(s): Patriotism THE ANGEL-THIEF Poem Text First Line: Time is a thief who leaves his tools behind Last Line: We lose our jewels, but we break our chains. Subject(s): Time THE ARCHBISHOP AND GIL BLAS Poem Text First Line: I don't think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray Last Line: I'm old enough to walk alone, but not so very old! Subject(s): Old Age THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN Poem Text First Line: It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side Last Line: And now they keep an oyster-shop for mermaids down below. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE BANKER'S SECRET Poem Text First Line: The banker's dinner is the stateliest feast Last Line: The lonely home an exiled stranger found. Subject(s): Banks And Banking THE BELLS Poem Text First Line: When o'er the street the morning peal is flung Last Line: The passing breath that holds thy passion's sway. Subject(s): Bells THE BOYS Poem Text First Line: Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? Last Line: Dear father, take care of thy children, the boys. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Old Age; Schoolmates THE BROKEN CIRCLE Poem Text First Line: I stood on sarum's treeless plain Last Line: Still lives to feed its altar-flame! Subject(s): Stonehenge THE BROOMSTICK TRAIN; OR THE RETURN OF THE WITCHES Poem Text First Line: Look out! Look out, boys! Clear the track! Last Line: On the rattling rail by the broomstick train! Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: Our ancient church! Its lowly tower Last Line: Might call a tear on mine. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Churchyards THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS Poem Text First Line: This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign Last Line: Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Subject(s): Mollusks; Nautilus (shell); Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean THE COMET Poem Text First Line: The comet! He is on his way Last Line: And sweet shall be thy sleep! Subject(s): Comets THE COMING ERA Poem Text First Line: They tell us that the muse is soon to fly hence Last Line: And song still live, the science of the heart. THE CROOKED FOOTPATH Poem Text First Line: Ah, here it is! The sliding rail Last Line: We still can see our father's door! THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE Poem Text First Line: Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay Last Line: Logic is logic. That's all I say. Variant Title(s): A Logical Story;the One-hoss Shay;the Wonderful One-hoss Shay THE DILEMMA Poem Text First Line: Now, by the blessed paphian queen Last Line: That wears for us the sweetest smile. THE DORCHESTER GIANT Poem Text First Line: There was a giant in time of old Last Line: And pay for the punch beside. Subject(s): Boston; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE DYING SENECA Poem Text First Line: He died not as the martyr dies Last Line: The self-stung reptile writhed and died! THE EXILE'S SECRET Poem Text First Line: Ye that have faced the billows and the spray Last Line: And thus began, -- the rose-lipped english girl. Subject(s): Exiles THE FIRST FAN Poem Text First Line: When rose the cry, 'great pan is dead!' Last Line: To aphrodite's fan-tailed pigeon. THE FLANEUR; BOSTON COMMON, DURING THE TRANSIT OF VENUS Poem Text First Line: I love all sights of earth and skies Last Line: And pay thee with a grateful rhyme. THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: What flower is this that greets the morn Last Line: The starry flower of liberty! Subject(s): American Revolution; Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Poem Text First Line: The fount the spaniard sought in vain Last Line: The hope of times unborn! Subject(s): Youth THE FRANKLAND MISSION Poem Text First Line: One hour we rumble on the rail Last Line: He cut his vista through. Subject(s): Hopkinton, Massachusetts THE GIRDLE OF FRIENDSHIP Poem Text First Line: She gathered at her slender waist Last Line: Lives changeless through them all. Subject(s): Friendship THE GOLDEN FLOWER Poem Text First Line: When advent dawns with lessening days Last Line: Where blossoms never fade and fall! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE GRAY CHIEF; FOR MEETING OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC. Poem Text First Line: Tis sweet to fight our battles o'er Last Line: His manhood's twice-told years! Subject(s): Bigelow, Jacob (1786-1879); Physicians; Doctors THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS Poem Text First Line: I wrote some lines once upon a time Last Line: As funny as I can. THE HOT SEASON Poem Text First Line: The folks, that on the first of may Last Line: Were interchanging cards! THE HUDSON Poem Text First Line: Twas a vision of childhood that came with its dawn Last Line: Till the channel is dry where its waters have rolled! Subject(s): Hudson River THE IRON GATE Poem Text First Line: Where is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Last Line: Thanks, brothers, sisters, -- children, -- and farewell! Subject(s): Old Age THE ISLAND HUNTING-SONG Poem Text First Line: No more the summer floweret charms Last Line: Your noble robin hood. Subject(s): Islands THE LAST BLOSSOM Poem Text First Line: Though young no more, we still would Last Line: Some youth is walking close behind! THE LAST CHARGE Poem Text First Line: Now, men of the north! Will you join in the strife Last Line: His sceptre once broken, the world is our own! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE LAST LEAF Poem Text First Line: I saw him once before Last Line: Where I cling. Subject(s): Adversity; Melville, Major Thomas; Old Age THE LAST LOOK; W.W. SWAIN Poem Text First Line: Behold - not him we knew! Last Line: And death himself shall die! Subject(s): Death; Swain, William W.; Dead, The THE LAST PROPHECY OF CASSANDRA Poem Text First Line: The sun is fading in the skies Last Line: Or scare the wild bird from her sleep. THE LAST READER Poem Text First Line: I sometimes sit beneath a tree Last Line: When the last reader reads no more! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LAST SURVIVOR Poem Text First Line: Yes! The vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast Last Line: And heaven bequeath their memories to him who loves us best! Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The THE LIVING TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: Not in the world of light alone Last Line: And mould it into heavenly forms! Subject(s): Churches; Worship; Cathedrals THE LOVER'S SECRET Poem Text First Line: What ailed young lucius? Art had vainly tried Last Line: Stirred the deep stillness as the voice began. THE LYRE OF ANACREON Poem Text First Line: The minstrel of the classic lay Last Line: As from anacreon's lyre! Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets THE MEETING OF THE DRYADS Poem Text First Line: It was not many centuries since Last Line: In sadness to her wounded tree. Subject(s): Trees THE MIND'S DIET Poem Text First Line: No life worth naming ever comes to good Last Line: Except when squabbling turns them black and blue! THE MORAL BULLY Poem Text First Line: Yon whey-faced brother, who delights to wear Last Line: And bait his homiles with his brother worms? Subject(s): Bullies THE MORNING VISIT Poem Text First Line: A sick man's chamber, though it often boast Last Line: The truest, noblest, wisest, kindest, best. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE MOTHER'S SECRET Poem Text First Line: How sweet the sacred legend - if unblamed Last Line: "a few grave thoughts may work you off to sleep." Subject(s): Mothers THE MUSIC-GRINDERS Poem Text First Line: There are three ways in which men take Last Line: A button in the hat! Subject(s): Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER Poem Text First Line: There was a sound of hurrying feet Last Line: That frightful tale to tell. THE NEW EDEN; MEETING OF BERKSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETRY Poem Text First Line: Scarce could the parting ocean close Last Line: Till ocean is its only wall! Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Drought; Horticulture THE OLD CRUISER Poem Text First Line: Here's the old cruiser, 'twenty-nine Last Line: A shadow hovered -- we all were there! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates THE OLD MAN DREAMS Poem Text First Line: O for one hour of youthful joy! Last Line: To please the gray-haired boys. Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Marriage; Old Age; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA; A NIGHTMARE DREAM BY DAYLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Do you know the old man of the sea, of the sea? Last Line: And be sure that he'll have it on you! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE OLD PLAYER Poem Text First Line: The curtain rose; in thunders long and loud Last Line: Dream on! There's nothing but illusion true! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Old Age; Actresses THE OLD TUNE; THIRTY-SIXTH VARIATION Poem Text First Line: This shred of song you bid me bring Last Line: "good-night, my dear old fellows!" Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The THE ONLY DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: They bid me strike the idle strings Last Line: May cost thee, too, a sigh. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE OPENING OF THE PIANO Poem Text First Line: In the little southern parlor of the house you may have seen Last Line: "open it! Open it, lady! And let me see the bird!" Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE ORGAN-BLOWER Poem Text First Line: Devoutest of my sunday friends Last Line: Will play the tune as he shall please. Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) THE PARTING SONG; FESTIVAL OF THE ALUMNI Poem Text First Line: The noon of summer sheds its ray Last Line: Then old and young, etc. Subject(s): Harvard University THE PARTING WORD Poem Text First Line: I must leave thee, lady sweet Last Line: Sealed how often, love, as now. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PEAU DE CHAGRIN OF STATE STREET Poem Text First Line: How beauteous is the bond Last Line: Anywhere! Subject(s): Investments; Stocks; Bonds THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS LOVE Poem Text First Line: Dearest, a look is but a ray Last Line: Or some sweet angel, likest thee! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE PILGRIM'S VISION Poem Text First Line: In the hour of twilight shadows / the puritan looked out Last Line: Here was the pilgrim's land! Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers THE PLOUGHMAN Poem Text First Line: Clear the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam! Last Line: The sword has rescued what the ploughshare won! Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Seasons; Fall THE POET'S LOT Poem Text First Line: What is a poet's love? Last Line: With urn and cherub o'er thee! THE PROMISE Poem Text First Line: Not charity we ask Last Line: Have washed thy master's feet. THE ROSE AND THE FERN Poem Text First Line: Lady, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn Last Line: Gather life's full-blown rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SCHOOL BOY Poem Text First Line: My cheek was bare of adolescent down Last Line: Seen through the vista of our bygone years. Subject(s): Andover, Massachusetts; Schools; Students THE SECRET OF THE STARS Poem Text First Line: Is man's the only throbbing heart that hides Last Line: "till time and teacups both shall be no more!" Subject(s): Stars THE SEPTEMBER GALE Poem Text First Line: I'm not a chicken; I have seen Last Line: My loved, my long-lost breeches! Subject(s): Hurricanes THE SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: How many have gone?' was the question of old Last Line: Lo! The shadows! The shadows! Room -- room for them all! Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The THE SHIP OF STATE; A SENTIMENT Poem Text First Line: The ship of state! Above her skies are blue Last Line: And guide the honest hand that holds her wheel! Subject(s): Patriotism THE SILENT MELODY Poem Text First Line: Bring me my broken harp,' he said Last Line: Our fingers sweep the stringless lyre! THE SMILING LISTNER Poem Text First Line: Precisely. I see it. You all want to say Last Line: The flowers that have faded bloom fairest of all! Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates THE SPECTRE PIG Poem Text First Line: It was the stalwart butcher man Last Line: It was the butcher man. THE STAR AND THE WATER LILY Poem Text First Line: The sun stepped down from his golden throne Last Line: And sank in the stormy tide. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Stars THE STATESMAN'S SECRET Poem Text First Line: Who of all statesmen is his country's pride Last Line: It told the mystery of a mother's love. Subject(s): Statesmen THE STEAMBOAT Poem Text First Line: See how yon flaming herald treads Last Line: Shall never wake in day! Subject(s): Steamboats THE STETHOSCOPE SONG; A PROFESSIONAL BALLAD Poem Text First Line: There was a young man in boston town Last Line: By a couple of silly, abnormal flies. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE STRONG HEROIC LINES Poem Text First Line: Friends of the muse, to you of right belong Last Line: And which velasquez or van dyck refuse? THE STUDY Poem Text First Line: Yet in the darksome crypt I left so late Last Line: My old magnalia must be standing there! THE SWEET LITTLE MAN; DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERS Poem Text First Line: Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles Last Line: Take your white-feather plume, sweet little man! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE TOADSTOOL Poem Text First Line: There's a thing that grows by the fainting flower Last Line: His throat is swelling with baffled love. Subject(s): Toadstools THE TREADMILL SONG Poem Text First Line: The stars are rolling in the sky Last Line: A treadmill of my own! Subject(s): Treadmills THE TWO ARMIES Poem Text First Line: As life's unending column pours Last Line: To sit beside the throne! Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE TWO STREAMS Poem Text First Line: Behold the rocky wall Last Line: One to the peaceful sea! THE VOICELESS Poem Text First Line: We count the broken lyres that rest Last Line: As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven! Subject(s): Adversity; Women THE WASP AND THE HORNET Poem Text First Line: The two proud sisters of the sea Last Line: The paths they swept of old! Subject(s): Hornet (ship); Navy - United States; Wasp (ship); American Navy THEN AS TO FEASTING, IT DOESN'T AGREE WITH ME THUS SAITH THE LORD, I OFFER THEE THREE THINGS First Line: In poisonous dens, where traitors hide TO A BLANK PIECE OF PAPER Poem Text First Line: Wan-visaged thing! Thy virgin leaf Last Line: Or swell some bonfire's pile. TO A CAGED LION Poem Text First Line: Poor conquered monarch! Though that haughty glance Last Line: Must bow thy savage strength, the mockery of a child! Subject(s): Animals; Lions TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND Poem Text First Line: The seed that wasteful autumn cast Last Line: From age to age, from clime to clime! Subject(s): England; English TO AN INSECT Poem Text First Line: I love to hear thine earnest voice Last Line: Than many a kate has done. Variant Title(s): Katydid Subject(s): Insects; Katydids; Bugs TO CANAAN; A PURITAN WAR-SONG Poem Text First Line: Where are you going, soldiers Last Line: A whirlwind from the north! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History TO CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED EHRENBERG Poem Text First Line: Thou who hast taught the teachers of mankind Last Line: Such joys, such triumphs, such remembrance thine! Subject(s): Ehrenberg, Christian G. (1795-1876) TO FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE Poem Text First Line: Fit emblem for the altar's side Last Line: But clasps your feet and steals their wings. Subject(s): Hedge, Frederick Henry (1805-1890) TO GEORGE PEABODY Poem Text First Line: Bankrupt! Our pockets inside out! Last Line: The friend of all his race, god bless him! Subject(s): Peabody, George (1795-1869) TO GOVERNOR SWAIN Poem Text First Line: Dear governor, if my skiff might brave Last Line: And that, dear governor, flies to thee! Subject(s): Swain, William W. TO H. W. LONGFELLOW; BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE TO EUROPE Poem Text First Line: Our poet, who has taught the western breeze Last Line: The proudest, fondest love thou leavest still behind! Subject(s): Farewell; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Parting TO JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I bring the simplest pledge of love Last Line: Long live our dear saint james! Subject(s): Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888) TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1) Poem Text First Line: This is your month, the month of perfect days Last Line: "we have ""five hundred"" -- not ""as good as he." Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (2) Poem Text First Line: A health to him whose double wreath displays Last Line: In life's fair field beyond the seven-barred gate! Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER; ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Friend, whom thy fourscore winters leave more dear Last Line: The unclouded dawn of life's immortal day! Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO MY COMPANIONS Poem Text First Line: Mine ancient chair! Thy wide-embracing arms Last Line: That breathes in accents sweet to me alone. TO MY OLD READERS Poem Text First Line: You know 'the teacups' that congenial set Last Line: He spread the page before him and began. TO MY READERS Poem Text First Line: Nay, blame me not; I might have spared Last Line: The buds of song that never blow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES Poem Text First Line: How to address him? Awkward, it is true Last Line: North, south, east, west, from all and everywhere! Subject(s): Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822-1893) TO THE ELEVEN LADIES WHO PRESENTED ME WITH SILVER LOVING CUP Poem Text First Line: Who gave this cup?' the secret thou wouldst steal Last Line: It makes an old heart young! TO THE POETS WHO ONLY READ AND LISTEN Poem Text First Line: When evening's shadowy fingers fold Last Line: Its lingering sweets exhale. TO THE PORTRAIT OF 'A GENTLEMAN', IN THE ATHENAEUM GALLERY Poem Text First Line: It may be so - perhaps thou hast Last Line: I've seen that face before. Subject(s): Portraits TO THE PORTRAIT OF 'A LADY', IN THE ATHENAEUM GALLERY Poem Text First Line: Well, miss, I wonder where you live Last Line: Hushed up among one's friends! Subject(s): Portraits TO THE TEACHERS OF AMERICA Poem Text First Line: Teachers of teachers! Yours the task Last Line: To flower in years unborn. Subject(s): National Educational Association; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE Poem Text First Line: Too young for love? / ah, say not so! Last Line: Ah, no! No! No! Subject(s): Love; Youth TREE PLANTING First Line: The trees may outline the memory of more that Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TWO POEMS TO HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: 1. AT THE SUMMIT Poem Text First Line: Sister, we bid you welcome, - we who stand Last Line: What more can heaven bestow! Subject(s): Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) TWO POEMS TO HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: 2. THE WORLD'S HOMAGE Poem Text First Line: If every tongue that speaks her praise Last Line: With heaven's own benediction. Subject(s): Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) TWO SONNETS: HARVARD. 1. 'CHRISTO ET ECCLESIAE,' 1700 Poem Text First Line: To god's anointed and his chosen flock Last Line: Where echoed once araunah's threshingfloor. Subject(s): Harvard University TWO SONNETS: HARVARD. 2. 1643 'VERITAS' 1878 Poem Text First Line: Truth: so the frontlet's older legend ran Last Line: And let thine earliest symbol be thy last! Subject(s): Harvard University UNDER THE VIOLETS Poem Text First Line: Her hands are cold; her face is white Last Line: Lies withered where the violets blow. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Violets; Graveyards UNDER THE WASHINGTON ELM, CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Eighty years have passed, and more Last Line: Was bright on our brave old tree! Subject(s): American Revolution; Elm Trees UNION First Line: Has our love all died out? Has its altars grown cold? UNION AND LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: Flag of the heroes who left us their glory Last Line: Union and liberty! One evermore! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History UNSATISFIED Poem Text First Line: Only a housemaid!' she looked from the kitchen Last Line: Give her an empire, she pines for a name! Subject(s): Discontent; Dissatisfaction VERSES FOR AFTER-DINNER Poem Text First Line: I was thinking last night, as I sat in the cars Last Line: The morsel he rent from this bosom of mine! VESTIGA QUINQUE RETRORSUM; AN ACADEMIC POEM, 1829-1879 Poem Text First Line: While fond, sad memories all around us throng Last Line: Not finis, but the end of volume first! Subject(s): Harvard University VIRTUE First Line: Virtue may flourish in an old cravat VIVE LA FRANCE Poem Text First Line: The land of sunshine and of song! Last Line: God bless her! Vive la france! Subject(s): France VOYAGE OF THE GOOD SHIP UNION Poem Text First Line: Tis midnight: through my troubled dream Last Line: One nation, evermore! Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates WELCOME TO THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CLUB Poem Text First Line: Chicago sounds rough to the maker of versse Last Line: From the green of the sea to the blue michigan! Subject(s): Chicago WELCOME TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS Poem Text First Line: Shadowed so long by the storm-cloud of danger Last Line: Strength to her people! Long life to the czar! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians WELCOME TO THE NATIONS Poem Text First Line: Bright on the banners of lily and rose Last Line: Thrones of the continents! Isles of the sea! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day WHAT I HAVE COME FOR Poem Text First Line: I have come with my verses - I think I may claim Last Line: I have told what I came for; my ditty is done. Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates WHAT WE ALL THINK Poem Text First Line: That age was older once than now Last Line: Can burn or blot it: god is love! Subject(s): God WHEN WE PLANT A TREE WE ARE DOING Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WHERE WE LOVE IS HOME Subject(s): Love WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS Poem Text First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all. Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Idols; Love; Regret; Solitude; Sympathy; Truth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Loneliness; Empathy WORDS ON LANGUAGE First Line: Some words on language may be well applied YOUTH Poem Text First Line: Why linger round the sunken wrecks Last Line: Than earth to save and heaven to win? Subject(s): Youth YOUTH FADES; LOVE DROOPS; THE LESSONS OF FRIENDSHIP FALL YOUTH IN OUR HEARTS First Line: A health to our future - a sigh for our past |
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