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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  1. 1Notes — Songs of Many Seasons (1862-1874) Opening the Window Programme
  2. 2Earlier Poems
  3. 3The Last Leaf
  4. 4The Cambridge Churchyard
  5. 5To an Insect
  6. 6The Dilemma
  7. 7My Aunt
  8. 8Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian
  9. 9Daily Trials
  10. 10Evening
  11. 11The Dorchester Giant
  12. 12To the Portrait of “A Lady” in the Athenaeum Gallery
  13. 13The Comet
  14. 14The Music-Grinders
  15. 15The Treadmill Song
  16. 16The September Gale
  17. 17The Height of the Ridiculous
  18. 18The Last Reader
  19. 19Poetry
  20. 20Additional Poems
  21. 21The Steamboat
  22. 22Lexington
  23. 23On Lending a Punch-Bowl
  24. 24A Song for the Centennial Celebration of Harvard College, 1836
  25. 25The Island Hunting-Song
  26. 26Departed Days
  27. 27The Only Daughter
  28. 28Song
  29. 29Lines
  30. 30Nux Postcoenatica
  31. 31Verses for After-Dinner Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1844
  32. 32A Modest Request
  33. 33The Parting Word
  34. 34A Song of Other Days
  35. 35Song for a Temperance Dinner to Which Ladies Were Invited (New York…
  36. 36A Sentiment
  37. 37A Rhymed Lesson (Urania)
  38. 38An After-Dinner Poem
  39. 39Medical Poems
  40. 40The Two Armies
  41. 41The Stethoscope Song
  42. 42Extracts From a Medical Poem
  43. 43A Poem for the Meeting of the American Medical Association at New Y…
  44. 44A Sentiment
  45. 45Rip Van Winkle, M. D.
  46. 46Songs in Many Keys
  47. 47A Poem
  48. 48To Governor Swain
  49. 49To an English Friend
  50. 50After a Lecture on Wordsworth
  51. 51After a Lecture on Moore
  52. 52After a Lecture on Keats
  53. 53After a Lecture on Shelley
  54. 54At the Close of a Course of Lectures
  55. 55The Hudson
  56. 56The New Eden
  57. 57Semi-Centennial Celebration of the New England Society New York, De…
  58. 58Farewell
  59. 59For the Meeting of the Burns Club
  60. 60Ode for Washington’s Birthday
  61. 61Birthday of Daniel Webster
  62. 62The Voiceless
  63. 63The Two Streams
  64. 64The Promise
  65. 65Avis
  66. 66The Living Temple
  67. 67At a Birthday Festival
  68. 68A Birthday Tribute
  69. 69The Gray Chief for the Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society…
  70. 70The Last Look
  71. 71In Memory of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr.
  72. 72Martha
  73. 73Meeting of the Alumni of Harvard College
  74. 74The Parting Song
  75. 75For the Meeting of the National Sanitary Association
  76. 76For the Burns Centennial Celebration
  77. 77At a Meeting of Friends
  78. 78For the Fair in Aid of the Fund to Procure Ball’s Statue of Washington
  79. 79The Old Man of the Sea a Nightmare Dream by Daylight
  80. 80International Ode
  81. 81A Sentiment Offered at the Dinner to H. I. H. the Prince Napoleon,…
  82. 82Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline
  83. 83The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Songs of Many Seasons…
  84. 84Poems of the Class of ’29
  85. 85A Song of “Twenty-Nine”
  86. 86Questions and Answers
  87. 87An Impromptu
  88. 88The Old Man Dreams
  89. 89Remember — Forget
  90. 90Our Indian Summer
  91. 91Mare Rubrum
  92. 92The Boys
  93. 93Lines
  94. 94J. D. R.
  95. 95Voyage of the Good Ship Union
  96. 96“Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve”
  97. 97F. W. C.
  98. 98The Last Charge
  99. 99Our Oldest Friend
  100. 100Sherman ‘S in Savannah
  101. 101My Annual
  102. 102Once More
  103. 103The Old Cruiser
  104. 104Added for the Alumni Meeting, June 29
  105. 105Hymn for the Class-Meeting
  106. 106Even-Song
  107. 107The Smiling Listener
  108. 108Our Sweet Singer
  109. 109H. C. M. H. S. J. K. W.
  110. 110What I Have Come for
  111. 111For Class Meeting
  112. 112“AD Amicos”
  113. 113How Not to Settle It
  114. 114The Last Survivor
  115. 115The Archbishop and Gil Blas
  116. 116The Shadows
  117. 117Benjamin Peirce
  118. 118In the Twilight
  119. 119A Loving-Cup Song
  120. 120The Girdle of Friendship
  121. 121The Lyre of Anacreon
  122. 122The Old Tune
  123. 123The Broken Circle
  124. 124The Angel-Thief
  125. 125After the Curfew
  126. 126Poems From the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
  127. 127Sun and Shadow
  128. 128Musa
  129. 129A Parting Health
  130. 130What We All Think
  131. 131Spring Has Come
  132. 132Prologue
  133. 133Latter-Day Warnings
  134. 134Album Verses
  135. 135A Good Time Going!
  136. 136The Last Blossom
  137. 137Contentment
  138. 138Aestivation
  139. 139The Deacon’s Masterpiece or, the Wonderful “One-Hoss Shay”
  140. 140Ode for a Social Meeting With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaler — (…)
  141. 141Poems From the Professor at the Breakfast-Table
  142. 142Hymn of Trust
  143. 143A Sun-Day Hymn
  144. 144The Crooked Footpath
  145. 145Iris, Her Book
  146. 146Robinson of Leyden
  147. 147St. Anthony the Reformer
  148. 148The Opening of the Piano
  149. 149Midsummer
  150. 150Poems From the Poet at the Breakfast-Table
  151. 151Fantasia
  152. 152Aunt Tabitha
  153. 153Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts From the Young Astronomer’s Poem
  154. 154Epilogue to the Breakfast-Table Series Autocrat-Professor-Poet at a…
  155. 155Songs of Many Seasons
  156. 156Programme
  157. 157In the Quiet Days
  158. 158The Organ-Blower
  159. 159At the Pantomime
  160. 160After the Fire
  161. 161A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party
  162. 162Nearing the Snow-Line
  163. 163In Wartime to Canaan
  164. 164“Thus Saith the Lord, I Offer Thee Three Things”
  165. 165Never or Now
  166. 166One Country
  167. 167God Save the Flag
  168. 168Hymn After the Emancipation Proclamation
  169. 169Hymn for the Fair at Chicago
  170. 170Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge
  171. 171Freedom, Our Queen
  172. 172Army Hymn
  173. 173Parting Hymn “Dundee”
  174. 174The Flower of Liberty
  175. 175The Sweet Little Man
  176. 176Union and Liberty
  177. 177Songs of Welcome and Farewell
  178. 178Welcome to the Grand Duke Alexis
  179. 179At the Banquet to the Grand Duke Alexis
  180. 180At the Banquet to the Chinese Embassy
  181. 181At the Banquet to the Japanese Embassy
  182. 182Bryant’s Seventieth Birthday
  183. 183A Farewell to Agassiz
  184. 184At a Dinner to Admiral Farragut
  185. 185At a Dinner to General Grant
  186. 186To H. W. Longfellow
  187. 187To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg for His “Jubilaeum” at Berlin, Nov…
  188. 188A Toast to Wilkie Collins
  189. 189Memorial Verses for the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
  190. 190For the Commemoration Services
  191. 191Edward Everett
  192. 192Shakespeare
  193. 193In Memory of John and Robert Ware
  194. 194Humboldt’s Birthday
  195. 195Poem at the Dedication of the Halleck Monument, July 8, 1869
  196. 196Hymn for the Celebration at the Laying of the Cornerstone of Harvar…
  197. 197Hymn for the Dedication of Memorial Hall at Cambridge, June 23, 1874
  198. 198Hymn at the Funeral Services of Charles Sumner, April 29, 1874
  199. 199Rhymes of an Hour
  200. 200A Sea Dialogue
  201. 201Chanson Without Music
  202. 202For the Centennial Dinner of the Proprietors of Boston Pier, or the…
  203. 203A Poem Served to Order
  204. 204The Fountain of Youth
  205. 205No Time Like the Old Time
  206. 206A Hymn of Peace
  207. 207Vol. III — Contents
  208. 208Bunker-Hill Battle and Other Poems
  209. 209At the “Atlantic” Dinner
  210. 210“Lucy” for Her Golden Wedding, October 18, 1875
  211. 211Hymn for the Inauguration of the Statue of Governor Andrew, Hingham…
  212. 212A Memorial Tribute
  213. 213Joseph Warren, M. D.
  214. 214Old Cambridge
  215. 215Welcome to the Nations
  216. 216A Familiar Letter
  217. 217Unsatisfied
  218. 218How the Old Horse Won the Bet
  219. 219An Appeal for “The Old South”
  220. 220The First Fan
  221. 221The Ship of State
  222. 222A Family Record
  223. 223The Iron Gate and Other Poems
  224. 224Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum
  225. 225My Aviary
  226. 226On the Threshold
  227. 227To George Peabody
  228. 228At the Papyrus Club
  229. 229For Whittier’s Seventieth Birthday
  230. 230Two Sonnets: Harvard
  231. 231The Coming Era
  232. 232In Response
  233. 233For the Moore Centennial Celebration
  234. 234To James Freeman Clarke
  235. 235Welcome to the Chicago Commercial Club
  236. 236American Academy Centennial Celebration
  237. 237The School-Boy
  238. 238The Silent Melody
  239. 239Our Home — Our Country for the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the S…
  240. 240Poem at the Centennial Anniversary Dinner of the Massachusetts Medi…
  241. 241Rhymes of a Life-Time
  242. 242Our Dead Singer
  243. 243Two Poems to Harriet Beecher Stowe on Her Seventieth Birthday, June…
  244. 244A Welcome to Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould on His Return From South Am…
  245. 245To Frederick Henry Hedge at a Dinner Given Him on His Eightieth Bir…
  246. 246To John Greenleaf Whittier on His Eightieth Birthday
  247. 247Prelude to a Volume Printed in Raised Letters for the Blind
  248. 248Boston to Florence
  249. 249At the Unitarian Festival
  250. 250Readings Over the Teacups
  251. 251Verses From the Oldest Portfolio From the “Collegian,” 1830, Illust…

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