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Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old Ironsides was Holmes’ tribute poem to the three-masted US naval frigate that earned its nickname during the Battle of…
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The Music-Grinders by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Music-Grinders was retrieved from the anthology, The Humour of America (1909).HERE are three ways in which men takeOne’s money…
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The September Gale by Oliver Wendell Holmes
I’m not a chicken: I have seenFull many a chill September;And though I was a youngster then,That gale I well…
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The Olive Branch by Robert Herrick
Sadly I walk’d within the field,To see what comfort it would yield;And as I went my private way,An olive-branch before…
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To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses by Robert Herrick
Now is the time for mirth;Nor cheek or tongue be dumb;For with [the] flowery earthThe golden pomp is come. The…
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To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
Published in 1648 this poem originally appeared in Herrick’s book of poetry Hesperides as poem 208. The poem is in…
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If This Little World To-Night by Oliver Herford
If This Little World To-Night is the prologue in Herford’s whimsical collection, The Bashful Earthquake & Other Fables and Verses,…
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The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford
The Bashful Earthquake is the title poem in Herford’s whimsical collection of fables and verses published in 1898. The Bashful…
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The Early Owl by Oliver Herford
The Early Owl was published in Herford’s collection, Artful Anticks (1901). There’s an early worm, why not an owl? Oliver…
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The First First of April by Oliver Herford
The First First of April is featured in Herford’s whimsical collection, The Bashful Earthquake & Other Fables and Verses, published…
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