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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)

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ADDITIONAL POEMS 1838–1894 AND UNDATED
  
AN UNPUBLISHED POEM
  
SUNG AT THE HUNT
  
AT DARTMOUTH
  
HUNTING-SONG FOR 1839
  
TO A. L. J.
  
TO A. L. J.
  
TO A. L. J.
  
A SCINTILLA
  
A VISION OF LIFE
  
WYCLIFFE
  
LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR
  
PLEASURE REMEMBERED
  
TO JULIA WARD HOWE
  
LETTER TO THE CONNECTICUT STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
  
TO J. R. L.
  
TO J. R. L. FROM HOMER WILBUR
  
FROM AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
  
CAMILLA
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TWO POEMS FOR THE FESTIVAL OF ST. STEPHEN'S PARISH
  
CRIMEA
  
INTRODUCTION
  
FOR THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
  
AT A DINNER TO AGASSIZ
  
A SONG FOR THE WIDOW
  
SONG AT THE HUNT
  
THE HUNT
  
TO JAMES JACKSON, M. D.
  
OUR SECOND SELVES
  
VARIATIONS ON AN ARIA
  
ADIEUX Á LA VIE
  
LES BOHÉMIENS
  
ANSWER TO A TEETOTALER
  
THE EXAMINATION
  
PENITENTIA
  
TO E. AND L. A. WITH A PEAR
  
A LETTER TO ELIZA
  
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
  
TRUMPET SONG
  
WITH TWELVE AUTOGRAPHS
  
WEARY
  
SONG OF WELCOME TO THE RUSSIAN FLEET
  
AN OLD GRADUATE'S VERSES
  
PRELUDE
  
THE JUBILEE
  
TO JOHN PIERPONT
  
TO THE HARVARD ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
  
FOR A MONUMENT
  
FOR LONGFELLOW'S BIRTHDAY
  
ON RECEIVING A STOLEN APPLE
  
A WREATH OF FLOWERS
  
CATULLUS: DE ARRIO, LXXXII
  
THE RELUCTANT MINSTREL
  
WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS
  
THE TOOTHACHE
  
CHARADE
  
IN T. G. A.'S ALBUM
  
TELEGRAM TO THE BOHEMIAN CLUB: SAN FRANCISCO
  
CHARADE
  
A RHYMED RIDDLE
  
“OVER THE RIVER”
  
MY EXCUSE FOR NOT WRITING
  
TO J. R. N.
  
TO J. R. L.
  
THE GOLDEN CALENDAR
  
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONORS' WORSHIPS
  
THE ALBUM FIEND
  
ALMA MATER
  
AT THE UNITARIAN FESTIVAL
  
RESPONSE TO A TOAST
  
DOROTHY QUINCY UPHAM
  
TO J. R. L. HOMEWARD BOUND
  
TO MARK TWAIN
  
TO YOUTHFUL RHYMESTERS
  
FOR MISS HOWELLS' ALBUM
  
TO THE REVEREND S. F. SMITH, D. D.
  
CENTENNIAL OF WASHINGTON'S INAUGURAL
  
TO SARAH WHITMAN
  
THE LIVING DYNAMO
  
POEM ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF MY PORTRAIT TO THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
  
TO J. M. F. ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY
  
ELLEN TERRY
  
VERSION OF A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO
  
THE COMBINATION
  
EPITAPH I
  
EPITAPH II
  
ILLUSION
  
IN THE DEAD SEASON
  
LOVE
  
THE POET GROWS OLD
  
TO AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR
  
TO A BRIGHT BOY
  
TO CORINNA
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APPENDIX.

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A RHYMED RIDDLE

FEBRUARY 14, 1876
“I'm going to blank,” with failing breath,
The fallen gladiator said;
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Unconquered, he “consents to death;”
One gasp—the hero soul has fled.
“I'm going to blank,” the school-boy cried;
Two sugared sweets his hands display,—
Like snow-flakes in the ocean-tide
They vanish, melted both away.
Tell with one verb, or I'll tell you,
What each was just about to do.
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