THE EARLY POEMS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES [an electronic edition]

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THE EARLY POEMS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES [an electronic edition]

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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

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NEW YORK,: T. Y. CROWELL & COMPANY,

1901, 1903

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Contents

• illustration
• illustration
• dedication
• THE AUTHOR TO THE PUBLISHERS.
• CONTENTS.
• OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
• part
  • POETRY;A METRICAL ESSAY.
    • section
    • I.
    • II
    • III.
    • IV.
    • V.
  • NOTES.
    • NOTE 1. PAGE 1."Scenes of my youth."
    • NOTE 2. PAGE 9.
    • NOTE 3. PAGE 18."Or gaze upon yon pillared stone."
    • NOTE 4. PAGE 23."Swept through the world the war-song of Marseilles."
    • NOTE 5. PAGE 24."Our nation's anthem is a country dance!"
    • NOTE 6. PAGE 25."The mast that Britain strove to bow in vain."
    • NOTE 7. PAGE 32."Bore Ever Ready, faithful to the last."
    • NOTE 8. PAGE 40."Thou calm, chaste scholar."
    • NOTE 9. PAGE 40."And thou, dear friend."
• LYRICS.
  • THE LAST READER.
  • OUR YANKEE GIRLS.
  • LA GRISETTE.
  • AN EVENING THOUGHT.
  • A SOUVENIR.
  • "QUI VIVE!"
  • THE WASP AND THE HORNET.
  • FROM A BACHELOR'S PRIVATE JOURNAL.
  • STANZAS.
  • THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS LOVE.
  • L'INCONNUE.
  • THE STAR AND THE WATER-LILY.
  • ILLUSTRATION OF A PICTURE.
  • THE DYING SENECA.
  • A PORTRAIT.
  • A ROMAN AQUEDUCT.
  • THE LAST PROPHECY OF CASSANDRA.
  • TO A CAGED LION.
  • TO MY COMPANIONS.
  • THE LAST LEAF.
  • TO A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER.
  • TO AN INSECT.
  • THE DILEMMA.
  • MY AUNT.
  • THE TOADSTOOL.
  • THE MEETING OF THE DRYADS.
  • THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR.
  • THE SPECTRE PIG.
  • LINES BY A CLERK.
  • REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN.
  • THE POET'S LOT.
  • DAILY TRIALS.
  • EVENING.
  • THE DORCHESTER GIANT.
  • TO THE PORTRAIT OF "A GENTLEMAN."
  • TO THE PORTRAIT OF "A LADY."
  • THE COMET.
  • A NOONTIDE LYRIC.
  • THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN.
  • THE MUSIC-GRINDERS.
  • THE TREADMILL SONG.
  • THE SEPTEMBER GALE.
  • THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS.
  • THE HOT SEASON.
• POEMS ADDED SINCE THE FIRST EDITION
  • DEPARTED DAYS.
  • THE STEAMBOAT.
  • THE PARTING WORD.
  • SONG,
  • LINES
  • VERSES FOR AFTER-DINNER.
  • SONG,
  • THE ONLY DAUGHTER.
  • LEXINGTON.
  • THE ISLAND HUNTING SONG.
  • QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
  • A SONG,
  • TERPSICHORE.
  • URANIA: A RHYMED LESSON.
  • NOTES.
    • NOTE 1. PAGE 223. Ολη περ φύλλων γενεή , τοιήδε και ανδρών. Iliad VI., 146.
    • NOTE 2. PAGE 230.
    • NOTE 3. PAGE 234.
    • NOTE 4. PAGE 257.
  • THE PILGRIM'S VISION.
  • A MODEST REQUEST.
  • NUX POSTCŒNATICA.
  • ON LENDING A PUNCH-BOWL.
  • THE STETHOSCOPE SONG.
  • EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM.
    • THE STABILITY OF SCIENCE.
    • A PORTRAIT.
    • A SENTIMENT.
  • A SONG OF OTHER DAYS.
  • A SENTIMENT.
  • TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND.
  • THE PLOUGHMAN.
  • A POEM
  • ASTR�A: THE BALANCE OF ILLUSIONS.
• REPRINTED FROM "THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE."
  • ALBUM VERSES.
  • LATTER-DAY WARNINGS.
  • YES, WE KNEW WE MUST LOSE HIM.
  • SUN AND SHADOW.
  • THIS IS IT.
  • HERE IT IS, — WITH THE SLIGHT ALTERATIONS!
  • THE OLD MAN DREAMS.
  • THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.
  • MARE RUBRUM.
  • WHAT WE ALL THINK.
  • MY LADY'S CHEEK CAN BOAST NO MORE.
  • THE LAST BLOSSOM.
  • CALL HIM NOT OLD, WHOSE VISIONARY BRAIN.
  • THE LIVING TEMPLE.
  • AU BANQUET DE LA VIE, INFORTUN� CONVIVE.
  • SPRING HAS COME.
  • A GOOD TIME GOING!
  • THE TWO ARMIES.
  • MUSA.
  • THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE: OR THE WONDERFUL "ONE-HORSE-SHAY."
  • �STIVATION.
  • CONTENTMENT.
  • PRELUDE.
  • PARSON TURELL'S LEGACY: OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR.
  • THE VOICELESS.
• REPRINTED FROM "THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE."
  • DE SAUTY.
  • THE BOYS.
  • THE OPENING OF THE PIANO.
  • THE CROOKED FOOTPATH.
  • A MOTHER'S SECRET.
  • ROBINSON OF LEYDEN.
  • SAINT ANTHONY THE REFORMER.
  • MIDSUMMER.
  • IRIS, HER BOOK.
  • UNDER THE VIOLETS.
  • HYMN OF TRUST.
  • A SUN-DAY HYMN.