Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

See biography, media, quotes. A physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer and poet. He is the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Novels 1.3 Essays 2 Works about the author

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry

• "After the Curfew" (1889)
• "An After-Dinner Poem" (1843)
• "At a Birthday Festival" (1859)
• "At a Meeting of Friends" (1859)
• "At the Saturday Club" (1888)
• "A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party" (1874)
• "Cacoethes Scribendi"
• "The Chambered Nautilus" (1858)
• "Contentment" (1858)
• "Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man" (1830)
• "The Deacon's Masterpiece or, the Wonderful "One-hoss Shay": A Logical Story" (1858)
• "Departed Days" (1840)
• "Farewell to J. R. Lowell" (1855)
• "The Flâneur" (1882)
• "For the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (1865)
• "For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday" (1877)
• "Francis Parkman" (1893)
• "The Girdle of Friendship" (1884)
• "God Save The Flag!" (1865)
• "Hymn at the Funeral Services of Charles Sumner" (1874)
• "Harvard" (1880)
• "The Height of the Ridiculous
• "In Memory of John Greenleaf Whittier" (1892)
• "International Ode"
• "James Russell Lowell" (1891)
• "Joseph Warren, M. D." (1875)
• "The Last Leaf" (1831)
• "The Last Reader"
• "The Living Temple" (1858)
• "The Mind's Diet" (1850)
• "The Music Grinders" (1836)
• "Never or Now" (1862)
• "No Time Like the Old Time" (1865)
• "Ode for Washington's Birthday" (1856)
• "Old Cambridge" (1875)
• "Old Ironsides" (1830)
• "Opening the Window" (1875)
• "Our Dead Singer" (1888)
• "The Parting Song" (1857)
• "Poem at the Dedication of the Halleck Monument" (1869)
• "Questions and Answers" (1852)
• "The Rose and the Fern" (1890)
• "The Steamboat" (1840)
• "The Stethoscope Song" (1848)
• "To a Blank Sheet of Paper" (1830)
• "To an English Friend" (1852)
• "To an Insect" (1831)
• "To H. W. Longfellow" (1868)
• "To James Freeman Clarke" (1880)
• "To My Readers" (1862)
• "To the Poets Who Only Read and Listen" (1888)
• "To the Teachers of America" (1893)
• "A Toast to Wilkie Collins" (1874)
• "The Treadmill Song"
• "The Two Armies" (1858)
• "The Two Streams" (1859)
• "Under the Violets" (1859)
• "Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge" (1861)
• "Union and Liberty" (1861)
• "The Voiceless" (1858)
• "Youth" (1882)

[edit] Novels

• Elsie Venner (1859–1860)

[edit] Essays

• "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" (1857–1858)
• "Bread and the Newspaper"
• "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table"
• Medical Essays
  • "Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science" (with wikilinks) (1860)

[edit] Works about the author

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• "To Holmes on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882) by James Russell Lowell
• Oliver Wendell Holmes in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• Oliver Wendell Holmes in Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.