Oliver Wendell Holmes's Poetry, by title

• From “The Iron Gate”

  AS on the gauzy wings of fancy flying
    From some far orb I track our watery sphere,

  33 lines
• "Ad Amicos"

  "Dumque virent genua
  Et decet, obducta solvatur fonte senectus."

  91 lines
• "Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve"

  YES, tyrants, you hate us, and fear while you hate
  The self-ruling, chain-breaking, throne-shaking State!

  59 lines
• "Lucy"

  FOR HER GOLDEN WEDDING, OCTOBER 18, 1875
  "Lucy."--The old familiar name

  45 lines
• "Qui Vive?"

  "Qui vive?" The sentry's musket rings,
  The channelled bayonet gleams;

  37 lines
• "Thus Saith The Lord, I Offer Thee Three Kings."

  IN poisonous dens, where traitors hide
  Like bats that fear the day,

  40 lines
• A Ballad Of The Boston Tea-Party

  Read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
  No! never such a draught was poured

  109 lines
• A Birthday Tribute

  TO J. F. CLARKE
  WHO is the shepherd sent to lead,

  42 lines
• A Familiar Letter

  YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying;
  Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold?

  80 lines, 4 comments
• A Family Record

  WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877
  NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,

  206 lines
• A Farewell to Agassiz

  How the mountains talked together,
  Looking down upon the weather,

  91 lines
• A Good Time Going!

  BRAVE singer of the coming time,
  Sweet minstrel of the joyous present,

  70 lines
• A Hymn Of Peace

  SUNG AT THE "JUBILEE," JUNE 15, 1869,
  TO THE MUSIC OF SELLER'S "AMERICAN HYMN"

  28 lines
• A Loving-Cup Song

  COME, heap the fagots! Ere we go
  Again the cheerful hearth shall glow;

  46 lines
• A Memorial tribute

  READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL,
  FEBRUARY 8, 1876, IN MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWE

  115 lines
• A Modest Request

  Complied With After The Dinner At
  President Everett's Inauguration

  245 lines
• A Noontide Lyric

  THE dinner-bell, the dinner-bell
  Is ringing loud and clear;

  43 lines
• A Parting Health

  TO J. L. MOTLEY
  YES, we knew we must lose him,--though friendship may claim

  37 lines
• A Poem For The Meeting Of The American Medical Association At New York, May 5, 1853

  I HOLD a letter in my hand,-
  A flattering letter, more's the pity,-

  104 lines
• A Poem Served To Order

  PHI BETA KAPPA, JUNE 26, 1873
  THE Caliph ordered up his cook,

  86 lines
• A Poem. Dedication of the Pittsfield Cemetery

  ANGEL of Death! extend thy silent reign!
  Stretch thy dark sceptre o’er this new domain

  122 lines
• A Poem. For the AMA at New York, 1853

  I hold a letter in my hand,—­
  A flattering letter, more’s the pity,—­

  98 lines
• A Portrait

  Thoughtful in youth, but not austere in age;
  Calm, but not cold, and cheerful though a sage;

  14 lines
• A Rhymed Lesson (Urania)

  Yes, dear Enchantress,—­wandering far and long,
  In realms unperfumed by the breath of song,

  749 lines
• A Roman Aqueduct

  THE sun-browned girl, whose limbs recline
  When noon her languid hand has laid

  38 lines
• A Sea Dialogue

  Cabin Passenger:
  FRIEND, you seem thoughtful. I not wonder much

  59 lines
• A Sentiment

  The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,
  Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;

  24 lines
• A Sentiment Offered At The Dinner To H. I. H. The Prince Napoleon

  AT THE REVERE HOUSE,
  SEPTEMBER 25,1861

  55 lines
• A Sentiment. II.

  A TRIPLE health to Friendship, Science, Art,
  From heads and hands that own a common heart!

  15 lines
• A Song Of "Twenty-Nine"

  THE summer dawn is breaking
  On Auburn's tangled bowers,

  97 lines

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