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Subject: HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (1809-1894)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPISTLE TO DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; ON HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, / as age by age, thro' fell enchantment bound
Last Line: Edmund gosse.
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)


FILLING AN ORDER, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To nature, in her shop one day, at work compounding simples
Last Line: Poet, professor, autocrat of wit's own breakfast-table
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)


O. W. HOLMES ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         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)


OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Asleep at last! For fourscore years
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)


OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And can it be on the relentless blast
Last Line: Bereft of our dear singer, and his song?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)


OUR AUTOCRAT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His laurels fresh from song and lay
Last Line: And he himself is only ours!
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)


TO O.W. HOLMES ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear wendell, why need count the years
Last Line: Deathless at least in epitaph?
Subject(s): Friendship; Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)


TO O.W. HOLMES; ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear doctor, whose blandly invincible pen
Last Line: By the length of bright shadow your soul leaves behind!
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)


TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (WHITTIER'S LAST POEM), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the thousands who with hail and cheer
Last Line: And live because he lives.
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)


TO OLIVER WENDELL HOMES, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A fountain in our green new england hills
Last Line: That guard the soul whose fire of youth still burns.
Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894); Time