Oliver Wendell Holmes's Poetry, by popularity

• Hymn For The Class-Meeting

  THOU Gracious Power, whose mercy lends
  The light of home, the smile of friends,

  23 lines
• For The Meeting Of The National Sanitary Association

  WHAT makes the Healing Art divine?
  The bitter drug we buy and sell,

  65 lines
• Mare Rubrum

  FLASH out a stream of blood-red wine,
  For I would drink to other days,

  61 lines
• For Class Meeting

  IT is a pity and a shame--alas! alas! I know it is,
  To tread the trodden grapes again, but so it has been,

  95 lines
• The Shadows

  "How many have gone?" was the question of old
  Ere Time our bright ring of its jewels bereft;

  48 lines
• The Old Tune

  THIRTY-SIXTH VARIATION
  

  36 lines
• The Broken Circle

  I STOOD On Sarum's treeless plain,
  The waste that careless Nature owns;

  63 lines
• Musa

  O MY lost beauty!--hast thou folded quite
  Thy wings of morning light

  70 lines
• Prologue

  A PROLOGUE? Well, of course the ladies know,--
  I have my doubts. No matter,--here we go!

  75 lines
• Benjamin Peirce

  ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN. 1809-1890
  FOR him the Architect of all

  50 lines
• Parson Turell’s Legacy

  OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR
  A MATHEMATICAL STORY

  173 lines
• Ode For A Social Meeting

  WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER--(...)
  COME! fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go

  21 lines
• Robinson Of Leyden

  HE sleeps not here; in hope and prayer
  His wandering flock had gone before,

  58 lines
• St. Anthony The Reformer

  HIS TEMPTATION
  No fear lest praise should make us proud!

  40 lines
• Epilogue To The Breakfast-Table Series

  AUTOCRAT-PROFESSOR-POET
  AT A BOOKSTORE

  96 lines
• Programme

  READER--gentle--if so be
  Such still live, and live for me,

  88 lines
• Never Or Now

  AN APPEAL
  LISTEN, young heroes! your country is calling!

  40 lines
• One Country

  ONE country! Treason's writhing asp
  Struck madly at her girdle's clasp,

  34 lines
• Freedom Or Queen

  LAND where the banners wave last in the sun,
  Blazoned with star-clusters, many in one,

  28 lines
• Parting Hymn

  "DUNDEE"
  FATHER of Mercies, Heavenly Friend,

  30 lines
• Welcome To The Grand Duke Alexis

  MUSIC HALL, DECEMBER 6, 1871
  Sung to the Russian national air by the children of the public schools.

  22 lines
• At The Banquet To The Grand Duke Alexis

  DECEMBER 9, 1871
  ONE word to the guest we have gathered to greet!

  60 lines
• At The Banquet To The Chinese Embassy

  AUGUST 21, 1868
  BROTHERS, whom we may not reach

  56 lines
• At The Banquet To the Japanese Embassy

  AUGUST 2, 1872
  WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!

  70 lines
• To H. W. Longfellow

  BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE, MAY 27, 1868
  OUR Poet, who has taught the Western breeze

  42 lines
• To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

  FOR HIS "JUBILAEUM" AT BERLIN, NOVEMBER 5, 1868
  THOU who hast taught the teachers of mankind

  51 lines
• Edward Everett

  "OUR FIRST CITIZEN"
  WINTER'S cold drift lies glistening o'er his breast;

  90 lines
• Shakespeare

  TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
  APRIL 23, 1864

  80 lines
• In Memory Of John And Robert Ware

  No mystic charm, no mortal art,
  Can bid our loved companions stay;

  61 lines
• Humboldt’s Birthday

  CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869
  BONAPARTE, AUGUST 15, 1769.-HUMBOLDT, SEPTEMBER 14, 1769

  72 lines

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