America’s Fireside Poets
The fireside poets – also known as the schoolroom or household poets – were a group of 19th-century American poets associated with New England. These poets were very popular among readers and critics both...
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John Greenleaf Whitter 80th Birthday Poem by Holmes
TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY 1887 by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr FRIEND, whom thy fourscore winters leave more dear Than when life’s roseate summer on thy cheek Burned in the flush...
The Deacon’s Masterpiece by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
THE DEACON’S MASTERPIECE: OR THE WONDERFUL “ONE-HOSS SHAY.” A LOGICAL STORY by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran...
