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

CONTENTS.

• OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES xv
• POETRY; A METRICAL ESSAY 1
• Cambridge Churchyard 15
• Old Ironsides 25
• NOTES 43

LYRICS.

• THE LAST READER 49
• OUR YANKEE GIRLS 52
• ... LA GRISETTE 54
• AN EVENING THOUGHT 56
• A SOUVENIER 58
• ... "QUI VIVE!" 61
• THE WASP AND THE HORNET 63
• FROM A BACHELOR'S PRIVATE JOURNAL 65
• STANZAS 67
• THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS LOVE 69
• ... L'INCONNUE 71
• THE STAR AND THE WATER LILY 72
• ILLUSTRATION OF A PICTURE 75
• THE DYING SENECA 78

• A PORTRAIT 80
• A ROMAN AQUEDUCT 82
• THE LAST PROPHECY OF CASSANDRA 84
• TO A CAGED LION 87
• TO MY COMPANIONS 89
• THE LAST LEAF 91
• TO A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER 94
• TO AN INSECT 97
• THE DILEMMA 100
• MY AUNT 103
• THE TOADSTOOL 106
• THE MEETING OF THE DRYADS 108
• THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR 112
• THE SPECTRE PIG 117
• LINES BY A CLERK 123
• REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN 125
• THE POET'S LOT 127
• DAILY TRIALS 129
• EVENING. — BY A TAILOR 132
• THE DORCESTER GIANT 135
• TO THE PORTRAIT OF "A GENTLEMAN" 138
• TO THE PORTRAIT OF "A LADY" 141
• THE COMET 143
• A NOONTIDE LYRIC 147
• THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN 149
• THE MUSIC-GRINDERS 152
• THE TREADMILL SONG 156

• THE SEPTEMBER GALE 158
• THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS 161
• THE HOT SEASON 163

POEMS ADDED SINCE THE FIRST EDITION.

• DEPARTED DAYS 169
• THE STEAMBOAT 170
• THE PARTING WORD 173
• SONG 177
• LINES 179
• VERSES FOR AFTER-DINNER 183
• SONG 188
• THE ONLY DAUGHTER 190
• LEXINGTON 194
• THE ISLAND HUNTING SONG 198
• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 200
• SONG 202
• TERPSICHORE 205
• URANIA: A RHYMED LESSON 218
• NOTES 258
• THE PILGRIM'S VISION 261
• A MODEST REQUEST 268
• ... NUX POSTCŒNATICA 280

• ON LENDING A PUNCH-BOWL 287
• THE STETHOSCOPE SONG 292
• EXTRACTS FROM A MEDICAL POEM 297
• A SONG OF OTHER DAYS 301
• A SENTIMENT 304
• TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND 306
• THE PLOUGHMAN 308
• PITTSFIELD CEMETRY 312
• ASTR�A 319

Reprinted from "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table."

• ALBUM VERSES 361
• LATTER-DAY WARNINGS 363
• YES, WE KNOW WE MUST LOSE HIM 365
• SUN AND SHADOW 368
• THIS IS IT 370
• HERE IT IS, — WITH THE Slight Alterations! 375
• THE OLD MAN DREAMS 377
• THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS 380
• MARE RUBRUM 382
• WHAT WE ALL THINK 385
• MY LADY'S CHEEK CAN BOAST NO MORE 387
• THE LAST BLOSSOM 388
• CALL HIM NOT OLD, WHOSE VISIONARY BRAIN 391
• THE LIVING TEMPLE 392
• ... AU BANQUET DE LA VIE, INFORTUN� CONVIVE 395

• SPRING HAS COME 396
• A GOOD TIME GOING! 399
• THE TWO ARMIES 403
• MUSA 406
• THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE: OR, THE WONDERFUL "ONE-HORSE-SHAY" 410
• �STIVATION 416
• CONTENTMENT 417
• PRELUDE 421
• PARSON TURELL'S LEGACY: OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR 422
• THE VOICELESS 430

Reprinted from "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table"

• DE SAUTY 435
• THE BOYS 439
• THE OPENING OF THE PIANO 443
• THE CROOKED FOOTPATH 446
• A MOTHER'S SECRET 448
• ROBINSON OF LEYDEN 454
• SAINT ANTHONY THE REFORMER 457
• MIDSUMMER 459
• IRIS, HER BOOK 461
• UNDER THE VIOLETS 465
• HYMN OF TRUST 468
• A SUN-DAY HYMN 469