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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (1809-1894) Matches Found: 10 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 |
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