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TitleThe Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorOliver Wendell Holmes
Year1923
PublisherHoughton Mifflin
LocationCambridge
Sourcepdf
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
xi
TO MY READERS
1
EARLIER POEMS (1830–1836)
Old Ironsides
3
The Last Leaf
4
The Cambridge Churchyard
5
To an Insect
7
The Dilemma
7
My Aunt
8
Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian
8
Daily Trials, by a Sensitive Man
9
Evening, by a Tailor
9
The Dorchester Giant
10
To the Portrait of "A Lady"
11
The Comet
11
The Music-Grinders
12
The Treadmill Song
13
The September Gale
13
The Height of the Ridiculous
14
The Last Reader
14
Poetry: A Metrical Essay
15
POEMS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1837 AND 1848.
The Pilgrim's Vision
26
The Steamboat
28
Lexington
28
On Lending a Punch-Bowl
29
A Song for the Centennial Celebration of Harvard College, 1836
30
The Island Hunting-Song
31
Departed Days
32
The Only Daughter
32
Song written for the Dinner given to Charles Dickens, by the Young Men of Boston, February 1, 1842
33
Lines recited at the Berkshire Jubilee, Pittsfield, Mass., August 23, 1844
33
Nux Postcœnatica
35
Verses for After-Dinner
36
A Modest Request, complied with after the Dinner at President Everett's Inauguration
37
The Parting Word
40
A Song of Other Days
41
Song for a Temperance Dinner to which Ladies were invited (New York Mercantile Library Association, November, 1842)
42
A Sentiment
42
A Rhymed Lesson (Urania)
43
An After-Dinner Poem (Terpsichore)
54
MEDICAL POEMS.
The Morning Visit
58
The Two Armies
59
The Stethoscope Song
60
Extracts from a Medical Poem
61
A Poem for the Meeting of the American Medical Association at New York, May 5, 1853
62
A Sentiment
63
Rip Van Winkle, M. D.
63
Poem read at the Dinner given to the Author by the Medical Profession of the City of New York, April 12, 1883
68
SONGS IN MANY KEYS (1849–1861).
Prologue
72
Agnes
72
The Ploughman
79
Spring
80
The Study
82
The Bells
83
Non-Resistance
83
The Moral Bully
84
The Mind's Diet
85
Our Limitations
85
The Old Player
85
A Poem: Dedication of the Pittsfield Cemetery, September 9, 1850
87
To Governor Swain
89
To an English Friend
90
After a Lecture on Wordsworth
90
After a Lecture on Moore
91
After a Lecture on Keats
92
After a Lecture on Shelley
92
At the Close of a Course of Lectures
93
The Hudson
94
The New Eden
94
Semi-centennial Celebration of the New England Society, New York, December 22, 1855
96
Farewell to J. R. Lowell
97
For the Meeting of the Burns Club, 1856
97
Ode for Washington's Birthday
98
Birthday of Daniel Webster
98
The Voiceless
99
The Two Streams
99
The Promise
100
Avis
100
The Living Temple
101
At a Birthday Festival: to J. R. Lowell
102
A Birthday Tribute to J. F. Clarke
102
The Gray Chief
102
The Last Look: W. W. Swain
103
In Memory of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr.
103
Martha
104
Meeting of the Alumni of Harvard College, 1857
104
The Parting Song
106
For the Meeting of the National Sanitary Association, 1860
106
For the Burns Centennial Celebration, 1859
107
At a Meeting of Friends
108
Boston Common; Three Pictures
109
The Old Man of the Sea
109
International Ode
110
Vive la France
110
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline
111
POEMS OF THE CLASS OF '29 (1851–1889)
Bill and Joe
113
A Song of "Twenty-Nine"
114
Questions and Answers
115
An Impromptu
115
The Old Man dreams
115
Remember—Forget
116
Our Indian Summer
117
Mare Rubrum
117
The Boys
118
Lines
119
A Voice of the Loyal North
120
J. D. R.
120
Voyage of the Good Ship Union
120
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve"
121
F. W. C.
122
The Last Charge
123
Our Oldest Friend
124
Sherman's in Savannah
125
My Annual
125
All Here
126
Once More
127
The Old Cruiser
128
Hymn for the Class-Meeting
129
Even-Song
130
The Smiling Listener
131
Our Sweet Singer: J. A.
133
H. C. M., H. S., J. K. W.
133
What I have come for
134
Our Banker
135
For Class Meeting
136
"Ad Amicos"
137
How not to settle it
138
The Last Survivor
140
The Archbishop and Gil Blas
141
The Shadows
142
Benjamin Peirce
143
In the Twilight
144
A Loving-Cup Song
145
The Girdle of Friendship
145
The Lyre of Anacreon
146
The Old Tune
146
The Broken Circle
147
The Angel-Thief
147
After the Curfew
148
POEMS FROM THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE (1857–1858)
The Chambered Nautilus
149
Sun and Shadow
150
Musa
150
A Parting Health: to J. L. Motley
151
What We all think
152
Spring has come
152
Prologue
153
Latter-Day Warnings
154
Album Verses
155
A Good Time going!
155
The Last Blossom
156
Contentment
157
Æstivation
158
The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay"
158
Prelude
160
Parson Turell's Legacy: or, The President's Old Arm-Chair
160
Ode for a Social Meeting, with Slight Alterations by a Tee-totaler
162
POEMS FROM THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE (1858–1859)
Under the Violets
163
Hymn of Trust
163
A Sun-Day Hymn
163
The Crooked Footpath
164
Iris, Her Book
164
Robinson of Leyden
165
St. Anthony the Reformer
166
The Opening of the Piano
166
Midsummer
167
De Sauty
167
POEMS FROM THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE (1871–1872)
Homesick in Heaven
169
Fantasia
170
Aunt Tabitha
171
Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts
171
Epilogue to the Breakfast-Table Series
183
SONGS OF MANY SEASONS (1862–1874)
Opening the Window
185
Programme
185
In the Quiet Days.
An Old-Year Song
186
Dorothy Q: A Family Portrait
186
The Organ-Blower
187
After the Fire
188
At the Pantomime
189
A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party
190
Nearing the Snow-Line
191
In War Time.
To Canaan: A Puritan War-Song
191
"Thus saith the Lord, I offer Thee Three Things"
192
Never or Now
192
Hymn written for the Great Central Fair in Philadelphia, 1864
193
One Country
193
God Save the Flag!
194
Hymn after the Emancipation Proclamation
194
Hymn for the Fair at Chicago, 1865
194
Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge
195
Freedom, our Queen
195
Army Hymn
196
Parting Hymn
196
The Flower of Liberty
196
The Sweet Little Man
197
Union and Liberty
198
Songs of Welcome and Farewell.
America to Russia
198
Welcome to the Grand Duke Alexis
199
At the Banquet to the Grand Duke Alexis
199
At the Banquet to the Chinese Embassy
200
At the Banquet to the Japanese Embassy
201
Bryant's Seventieth Birthday
202
A Farewell to Agassiz
203
At a Dinner to Admiral Farragut
204
At a Dinner to General Grant
205
To H. W. Longfellow
206
To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
206
A Toast to Wilkie Collins
207
Memorial Verses.
For the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Boston, June 1, 1865
208
For the Commemoration Services, Cambridge, July 21, 1865
208
Edward Everett: January 30, 1865
210
Shakespeare's Tercentennial Celebration, April 23, 1864
211
In Memory of John and Robert Ware, May 25, 1864
212
Humboldt's Birthday: Centennial Celebration, September 14, 1869
213
Poem at the Dedication of the Halleck Monument, July 8, 1869
214
Hymn for the Celebration at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6, 1870
214
Hymn for the Dedication of Memorial Hall at Cambridge, June 23, 1874
215
Hymn at the Funeral Services of Charles Sumner, April 29, 1874
215
Rhymes of an Hour.
An Impromptu at the Walcker Dinner upon the Completion of the Great Organ for Boston Music Hall in 1863
215
Address for the Opening of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, December 3, 1873
216
A Sea Dialogue
218
Chanson without Music
219
For the Centennial Dinner of the Proprietors of Boston Pier, or the Long Wharf, April 16, 1873
220
A Poem served to Order
221
The Fountain of Youth
222
No Time like the Old Time
222
A Hymn of Peace, sung at the "Jubilee," June 15, 1869, to the Music of Keller's "American Hymn"
223
BUNKER-HILL BATTLE AND OTHER POEMS (1874–1877)
Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill Battle
224
At the "Atlantic" Dinner, December 15, 1874
227
"Lucy:" for her Golden Wedding, October 18, 1875
228
Hymn for the Inauguration of the Statue of Governor Andrew, Hingham, October 7, 1875
229
A Memorial Tribute to Dr. Samuel G. Howe
229
Joseph Warren, M. D.
230
Old Cambridge, July 3, 1875
230
Welcome to the Nations, Philadelphia, July 4, 1876
232
A Familiar Letter
232
Unsatisfied
234
How the Old Horse won the Bet
234
An Appeal for "The Old South"
236
The First Fan
237
To Rutherford Birchard Hayes
239
The Ship of State
239
A Family Record
239
THE IRON GATE AND OTHER POEMS (1877–1881)
The Iron Gate
243
Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum
244
My Aviary
247
On the Threshold
249
To George Peabody
249
At the Papyrus Club
249
For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday
250
Two Sonnets: Harvard
251
The Coming Era
251
In Response
252
For the Moore Centennial Celebration
253
To James Freeman Clarke
255
Welcome to the Chicago Commercial Club
255
American Academy Centennial Celebration
256
The School-Boy
257
The Silent Melody
263
Our Home—Our Country
263
Poem at the Centennial Anniversary Dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society
264
Harvard
268
Rhymes of a Life-time
268
BEFORE THE CURFEW
At my Fireside
269
At the Saturday Club
269
Our Dead Singer, H. W. L.
271
Two Poems to Harriet Beecher Stowe on her Seventieth Birthday
I. At the Summit
272
II. The World's Homage
272
A Welcome to Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould
273
To Frederick Henry Hedge on his Eightieth Birthday
274
To James Russell Lowell
274
To John Greenleaf Whittier on his Eightieth Birthday
275
Prelude to a Volume printed in Raised Letters for the Blind
276
Boston to Florence
276
At the Unitarian Festival, March 8, 1882
277
Poem for the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Harvard College
277
Post-Prandial: Phi Beta Kappa, 1881
284
The Flâneur: During the Transit of Venus, 1882
284
Ave
286
King's Chapel: Read at the Two Hundredth Anniversary
286
Hymn for the same Occasion
287
Hymn—The Word of Promise
288
Hymn read at the Dedication of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital at Hudson, Wisconsin, June 7, 1887
288
On the Death of President Garfield
289
The Golden Flower
290
Youth
290
Hail, Columbia!
290
Poem for the Dedication of the Fountain at Stratford-on-Avon, presented by George W. Childs, of Philadelphia
291
To the Poets who only read and listen
292
For the Dedication of the New City Library, Boston
293
To James Russell Lowell, at the Dinner given in his honor at the Tavern Club, on his Seventieth Birthday, February 22, 1889
293
But One Talent
295
For the Window in St. Margaret's
296
James Russell Lowell: 1819–1891
296
In Memory of John Greenleaf Whittier: December 17, 1807–September 7, 1892
297
To the Teachers of America
298
Hymn written for the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Reorganization of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, May 31, 1893
298
Francis Parkman: September 16, 1823–November 8, 1893
298
POEMS FROM OVER THE TEACUPS.
To the Eleven Ladies who presented me with a Silver Loving Cup
300
The Peau de Chagrin of State Street
300
Cacoethes Scribendi
300
The Rose and the Fern
301
I Like you and I Love you
301
La Maison d'Or (Bar Harbor)
301
Too Young for Love
301
The Broomstick Train; or, The Return of the Witches
301
Tartarus
304
At the Turn of the Road
304
Invitâ Minervâ
305
READINGS OVER THE TEACUPS.
To my Old Readers
306
The Banker's Secret
307
The Exile's Secret
311
The Lover's Secret
313
The Statesman's Secret
315
The Mother's Secret
317
The Secret of the Stars
319
APPENDIX.
I. Verses from the Oldest Portfolio.
First Verses: Translation from the Æneid
321
The Meeting of the Dryads
321
The Mysterious Visitor
322
The Toadstool
323
The Spectre Pig
323
To a Caged Lion
324
The Star and the Water-Lily
325
Illustration of a Picture: "A Spanish Girl in Reverie"
325
A Roman Aqueduct
326
From a Bachelor's Private Journal
326
La Grisette
326
Our Yankee Girls
327
L'Inconnue
327
Stanzas
327
Lines by a Clerk
327
The Philosopher to his Love
328
The Poet's Lot
328
To a Blank Sheet of Paper
328
To the Portrait of "A Gentleman" in the Athenæum Gallery
329
The Ballad of the Oysterman
329
A Noontide Lyric
330
The Hot Season
330
A Portrait
331
An Evening Thought, written at Sea
331
"The Wasp" and "The Hornet"
331
"Qui Vive?"
331
A Souvenir
332
The Dying Seneca
332
The Last Prophecy of Cassandra
332
To my Companions
333
II. Astræa: The Balance of Illusions
333
III. Notes and Addenda
337
IV. A Chronological List of Dr. Holmes' Poems
341
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
345
INDEX OF TITLES
349
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