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Critical Analysis of Famous Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  • A Ballad Of The Boston Tea-Party
  • A Birthday Tribute
  • A Familiar Letter
  • A Family Record
  • A Farewell To Agassiz
  • A Good Time Going!
  • A Hymn Of Peace
  • A Loving-Cup Song
  • A Memorial Tribute
  • A Noontide Lyric
  • A Parody On “a Psalm Of Life”
  • A Parting Health
  • A Poem For The Meeting Of The American Medical Association At New York, May 5, 1853
  • A Poem Served To Order
  • A Poem. Dedication Of The Pittsfield Cemetery
  • A Portrait
  • A Rhymed Lesson (Urania)
  • A Roman Aqueduct
  • A Sea Dialogue
  • A Sentiment
  • A Sentiment Offered At The Dinner To H. I. H. The Prince Napoleon
  • A Song Of
  • A Song Of Other Days
  • A Song. For The Centennial Celebration Of Harvard College
  • A Souvenir
  • A Sun-Day Hymn
  • A Toast To Wilkie Collins
  • A Voice Of The Loyal North
  • A Welcome To Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould
  • Ad Amicos
  • Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre
  • After A Lecture On Keats
  • After A Lecture On Moore
  • After A Lecture On Shelley
  • After A Lecture On Wordsworth
  • After The Curfew
  • After The Fire
  • Agnes
  • Album Verses
  • All Here
  • America To Russia
  • American Academy Centennial Celebration
  • An After-Dinner Poem
  • An Appeal For
  • An Evening Thought
  • An Impromptu
  • An Impromptu - Ii
  • An Old-Year Song
  • Army Hymn
  • Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions
  • At A Birthday Festival
  • At A Dinner To Admiral Farragut
  • At A Dinner To General Grant
  • At A Meeting Of Friends
  • At My Fireside
  • At The
  • At The Banquet To The Chinese Embassy
  • At The Banquet To The Grand Duke Alexis
  • At The Banquet To The Japanese Embassy
  • At The Close Of A Course Of Lectures
  • At The Pantomime
  • At The Papyrus Club
  • At The Saturday Club
  • At The Turn Of The Road
  • At The Unitarian Festival
  • Aunt Tabitha
  • Ave
  • Avis
  • Benjamin Peirce
  • Bill And Joe
  • Birthday Of Daniel Webster
  • Boston To Florence
  • Brother Jonathan's Lament
  • Bryant’s Seventieth Birthday
  • But One Talent
  • But One Talent
  • Cacoethes Scribendi
  • Call Him Not Old, Whose Visionary Brain
  • Chanson Without Music
  • Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve
  • Contentment
  • Daily Trials By A Sensitive Man
  • De Sauty
  • Departed Days
  • Dorothy Q.
  • Edward Everett
  • Epilogue To The Breakfast-Table Series
  • Even-Song
  • Evening. By A Tailor
  • Extracts From A Medical Poem. The Stability Of Science
  • F. W. C.
  • Fantasia
  • Farewell To J. R. Lowell
  • First Verses
  • For Class Meeting
  • For The Burns Centennial Celebration
  • For The Centennial Dinner
  • For The Commemoration Services
  • For The Dedication Of The New City Library, Boston
  • For The Fair In Aid Of The Fund To Procure Ball’s Statue Of Washington
  • For The Meeting Of The National Sanitary Association
  • For The Moore Centennial Celebration
  • For The Services In Memory Of Abraham Lincoln
  • For The Window In St. Margaret’s
  • For Whittier’s Seventieth Birthday
  • Francis Parkman
  • Freedom Or Queen
  • From A Bachelor’s Private Journal
  • From The Iron Gate
  • God Save The Flag
  • Grandmother's Story Of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It From The Belfry)
  • H. C. M. H. S. J. K. W.
  • Hail, Columbia!
  • Harvard
  • Homesick In Heaven
  • How The Old Horse Won The Bet
  • How To Not Settle It
  • Humboldt’s Birthday
  • Hymn After The Emancipation Proclamation
  • Hymn At The Funeral Services Of Charles Sumner
  • Hymn For The Celebration At The Laying Of The Cornerstone Of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6, 1870
  • Hymn For The Class-Meeting
  • Hymn For The Dedication Of Memorial Hall At Cambridge, June 23, 1874
  • Hymn For The Fair At Chicago
  • Hymn For The Inauguration Of The Statue Of Governor Andrew
  • Hymn For The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of King’s Chapel
  • Hymn Of Trust
  • Hymn Read At The Dedication Of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital At Hudson, Wisconsin
  • Hymn Written For The Great Central Fair In Philadelphia, 1864
  • Hymn Written For The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of The Reorganization Of The Boston Young Men’s Christian Union
  • Hymn.—the Word Of Promise
  • I Like You And I Love You
  • Illustration Of A Picture
  • In Memory Of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr.
  • In Memory Of John And Robert Ware
  • In Memory Of John Greenleaf Whittier
  • In Response
  • In The Twilight
  • In Vita Minerva
  • Iris, Her Book
  • J. D. R.
  • James Russell Lowell
  • Joseph Warren, M. D.
  • King’s Chapel
  • La Grisette
  • La Maison D’or
  • Latter-Day Warnings
  • Lexington
  • Lines
  • Lines -- For Berkshire Jubilee, Aug. 23, 1844
  • Lines By A Clerk
  • Lucy
  • L’inconnue
  • Mare Rubrum
  • Martha
  • Meeting Of The Alumni Of Harvard College
  • Midsummer
  • Midsummer
  • Musa
  • My Annual
  • My Aunt
  • My Aviary
  • Near The Snow-Line
  • Never Or Now
  • No Time Like The Old Time
  • Non-Resistance
  • Nux Postcoenatica
  • Ode For A Social Meeting
  • Ode For Washington’s Birthday
  • Old Cambridge
  • Old Ironsides
  • On Lending A Punch-Bowl
  • On The Death Of President Garfield
  • On The Threshold
  • Once More
  • One Country
  • Opening The Window
  • Our Banker
  • Our Dead Singer
  • Our Home—our Country
  • Our Indian Summer
  • Our Limitations
  • Our Oldest Friend
  • Our Sweet Singer
  • Our Yankee Girls
  • Parson Turell’s Legacy
  • Parting Hymn
  • Poem (Halleck Monument Dedication)
  • Poem At The Centennial Anniversary Dinner Of The Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Poem For The Dedication Of The Fountain At Stratford-On-Avon
  • Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College
  • Poem Read At The Dinner Given To The Author By The Medical Profession Of The City Of New York, April 12, 1883
  • Poetry: A Metrical Essay, Read Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard
  • Post-Prandial
  • Prelude To A Volume Printed In Raised Letters For The Blind
  • Programme
  • Prologue
  • Questions And Answers
  • Reflections Of A Proud Pedestrian
  • Remember--Forget
  • Rhymes Of A Life-Time
  • Rip Van Winkle. Canto I.
  • Robinson Of Leyden
  • Semi-Centennial Celebration Of The New England Society
  • Shakespeare
  • Song. For A Temperance Dinner
  • Songs In Many Keys
  • Spring
  • Spring Has Come
  • St. Anthony The Reformer
  • Stanzas
  • Sun And Shadow
  • Tatarus
  • The Angel-Thief
  • The Archbishop And Gil Blas
  • The Ballad Of The Oysterman
  • The Banker’s Secret
  • The Bells
  • The Boys
  • The Broken Circle
  • The Broomstick Train; Or, The Return Of The Witches
  • The Cambridge Churchyard
  • The Chambered Nautilus
  • The Comet
  • The Coming Era
  • The Crooked Footpath
  • The Deacon's Masterpiece Or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay": A Logical Story
  • The Dilemma
  • The Dorchester Giant
  • The Dying Seneca
  • The Exile’s Secret
  • The First Fan
  • The FlaÂNeur
  • The Flower Of Liberty
  • The Fountain Of Youth
  • The Girdle Of Friendship
  • The Gray Chief
  • The Height Of The Ridiculous
  • The Hot Season
  • The Hudson
  • The Iron Gate
  • The Island Hunting-Song
  • The Last Blossom
  • The Last Charge
  • The Last Leaf
  • The Last Look
  • The Last Prophecy Of Cassandra
  • The Last Reader
  • The Last Survivor
  • The Living Temple
  • The Lover’s Secret
  • The Lyre Of Anacreon
  • The Meeting Of The Dryads
  • The Mind’s Diet
  • The Moral Bully
  • The Morning Visit
  • The Mother’s Secret
  • The Music-Grinders
  • The Mysterious Visitor
  • The Old Cruiser
  • The Old Man Dreams
  • The Old Man Of The Sea
  • The Old Player
  • The Old Tune
  • The Only Daughter. Illustration Of A Picture
  • The Opening Of The Piano
  • The Organ-Blower
  • The Parting Song
  • The Parting Word
  • The Peau De Chagrin Of State Street
  • The Philosopher To His Love
  • The Pilgrim's Vision
  • The Ploughman
  • The Poet’s Lot
  • The Promise
  • The Rose And The Fern
  • The School-Boy
  • The Secret Of The Stars
  • The September Gale
  • The Shadows
  • The Ship Of State
  • The Silent Melody
  • The Smiling Listener
  • The Spectre Pig
  • The Star And The Water Lily
  • The Statesman’s Secret
  • The Steamboat
  • The Stethoscope Song. A Professional Ballad
  • The Strong Heroic Line
  • The Study
  • The Sweet Little Man
  • The Toadstool
  • The Treadmill Song
  • The Two Armies
  • The Two Streams
  • The Voiceless
  • The Wasp And The Hornet
  • To A Blank Sheet Of Paper
  • To A Caged Lion
  • To A Portrait Of
  • To An English Friend
  • To an Insect
  • To Canaan
  • To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
  • To Frederick Henry Hedge
  • To George Peabody
  • To Governor Swain
  • To H. W. Longfellow
  • To James Freeman Clarke
  • To James Russell Lowell
  • To John Greenleaf Whittier
  • To My Old Readers
  • To My Readers
  • To Rutherford Birchard Hayes
  • To The Eleven Ladies
  • To The Poets Who Only Read And Listen
  • To The Portrait Of
  • To The Teachers Of America
  • Too Young For Love
  • Two Poems To Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Two Sonnets: Harvard
  • Under The Violets
  • Under The Washington Elm, Cambridge
  • Union And Liberty
  • Unsatisfied
  • Verses For After-Dinner
  • Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum
  • Voyage Of The Good Ship Union
  • Welcome To The Chicago Commercial Club
  • Welcome To The Grand Duke Alexis
  • Welcome To The Nations
  • What I Have Come For
  • What We All Think
  • Wind-Clouds And Star-Drifts
  • Youth
  • Æstivation
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  • nature
  • family
  • spring
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  • summer
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