Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
American physician, poet and writer

Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes

• A Farewell to Agassiz
• A Modest Request
• A Poem for the Meeting of the American Medical Association at New York, May 5, 1853
• A Rhymed Lesson (Urania)
• A Sentiment (A TRIPLE health to Friendship, Science, Art,)
• A Sentiment (THE pledge of Friendship! it is still divine)
• A Song of Other Days
• A Song
• An After-Dinner Poem
• Contentment
• Daily Trials
• Departed Days
• Evening
• God Save the Flag
• Lexington
• Lines
• My Aunt
• My Aviary
• Non-Resistance
• Nux Postcoenatica
• Old Ironsides
• On Lending a Punch-Bowl
• Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian
• Rip Van Winkle, M. D.
• Song (A HEALTH to dear woman! She bids us untwine)
• Song (THE stars their early vigils keep)
• Sun and Shadow
• The Bells
• The Cambridge Churchyard
• The Chambered Nautilus
• The Comet
• The Dilemma
• The Dorchester Giant
• The Flower of Liberty
• The Height of the Ridiculous
• The Island Hunting-Song
• The Last Leaf
• The Last Reader
• The Moral Bully
• The Music-Grinders
• The Only Daughter
• The Parting Word
• The Pilgrim's Vision
• “The Reverend Henry Beecher”
• The September Gale
• The Steamboat
• The Stethoscope Song
• The Study
• The Treadmill Song
• The Two Armies
• The Two Streams
• The Voiceless
• To an Insect
• To Governor Swain
• To the Portrait of “A Lady” in the Athenaeum Gallery
• Under the Violets
• Verses for After-Dinner Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1844

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