Poems
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Volume
Printed in Raised Letters
for the BlindJune 15, 1885
At the end we have two notes, from the editor of the Complete Poetical Works, and from the online editor. Notes on the separate pages of poems, in square brackets, are from Horace E. Scudder, editor of the Cambridge Edition, Complete Poetical Works, unless otherwise labelled. They sometimes consist of the context and author's notes when the poem was printed in one of Holmes's prose works.
Dates are given as when first composed, when known, otherwise first collected publication in parentheses.
- Poems selected by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1885
- Prelude, to a volume printed in raised letters for the blind, 1885
- The Last Leaf; also an illustrated version that takes more than five minutes to load, 1831
- The Dorchester Giant, 1830
- The September Gale, (1836)
- The Height of the Ridiculous, 1830
- The Living Temple, 1858
- The Voiceless, 1858
- Martha, 1861
- The Flower of Liberty, 1861
- Union and Liberty, 1861
- The Chambered Nautilus, 1858
- Sun and Shadow, 1857
- The Deacon's Masterpiece, or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay (illustrated), 1858
- Contentment, 1858
- Under the Violets, 1859
- The Opening of the Piano, 1859
- Bill and Joe, 1868
- The Old Man Dreams, 1854
- The Boys, 1859
- Dorothy Q., 1871
- The Organ-Blower, 1872
- Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, 1861
- Poem, at the Dedication of the Halleck Monument, 1869
- A Farewell to Agassiz, 1865
- For the Moore Centennial Celebration, 1879
- A Familiar Letter, 1876
- The Iron Gate, 1879
- My Aviary, 1878
- The Silent Melody, 1878
- Some other poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The Broomstick Train (illustrated), 1890
- Old Ironsides, 1830
- The Meeting of the Dryads, 1830
- The Spectre Pig, 1830
- To a Blank Sheet of Paper, 1830
- The Hot Season, 1830
- "The Wasp" and "The Hornet", 1832
- The Cambridge Churchyard, (1836)
- To an Insect, 1831
- My Aunt, 1831
- The Comet, 1832
- The Music Grinders, (1836)
- The Last Reader, (1836)
- The Steamboat, 1840
- The Stethoscope Song, (1848)
- Non-resistance, 1850
- The Mind's Diet, 1850
- Our Limitations, 1850
- Latter-Day Warnings, 1857
- A Parting Health (to J. L. Motley), 1857
- Prologue (This Is It), 1857
- Ode to a Social Meeting, with slight alterations by a tee-totaler, 1857
- Mare Rubrum, 1858
- The Last Blossom, 1858
- Album Verses, 1858
- What We All Think, 1858
- Spring Has Come, 1858
- The Two Armies, 1858
- Musa, 1858
- Aestivation, 1858
- Parson Turell's Legacy, 1858
- Boston Common: Three Pictures, 1859
- Epilogue to the Breakfast-Table series, At a Bookstore, 1972, 1872
- After the Fire, 1872
- At the Pantomime, 1874
- A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party, 1874
- Nearing the Snow-Line, 1870
- Hymn, after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1865
- Hymn, for the laying of the cornerstone, Harvard's Memorial Hall, 1870
- Hymn, for the dedication of Harvard's Memorial Hall, 1874
- An Appeal for "The Old South", 1877
- At the Saturday Club, 1884
- To the Poets Who Only Read and Listen, 1885
- For the Dedication of the New City Library, Boston, 1888
- To the Teachers of America, 1893
[Complete Poetical Works editor's note: ] This volume [printed in raised letters for the blind] was published in 1885 from the Howe Memorial Press in Boston, the Prelude called Dedication being dated June 15, of that year. There are ninety-one poems in the collection, and of these the following were designated by Dr Holmes, who so far aided in the selection:--
[Online editor's note: ] We extract them from the collected works of 1895. Since we are unable to read the Braille edition, we don't know what its other contents were, following "The Silent Melody." But we have added some of our own favorites from the complete poems, with a few written after 1885. Notes are from the Complete Poetical Works edited by Horace E. Scudder. Several are illustrated but have text descriptions added by the online editor.
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