The Wonderful 'one-hoss-shay'
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
- Title
- The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay", and Other Poems
- Credits
- Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by Google Books
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- American poetry -- 19th century
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45280
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45280
- Release Date
- March 31, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WONDERFUL “ONE-HOSS-SHAY”
- 2.And Other Poems
- 3.By Oliver Wendell Holmes — (Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly of September, 1858) With numerous original illustrations by Thomas McIlvaine
- 4.THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE: — OR THE WONDERFUL “ONE-HOSS-SHAY.” — A LOGICAL STORY. — (“BRADDOCK'S ARMY WAS DONE SO BROWN.”) — (“I DEW VUM”) — (“SO THE DEACON INQUIRED OF THE VILLAGE FOLK.”) — (“THE PARSON TAKES A DRIVE.”) — “WHEN HE GOT UP AND STARED AROUND.” — (“THIS ANCIENT SILVER BOWL OF MINE.”)
- 5.ON LENDING A PUNCHBOWL. — (“JOLLY NIGHTS.”) — (“AND QUAFFED A CUP OF GOOD OLD FLEMISH ALE.”) — (“WITH THOSE THAT IN THE MAYFLOWER CAME.”) — (“STIRRED THE POSSET WITH HIS SWORD.”) — (“A MOTHER'S HAND TO CHEER HER PARTING BOY.”) — (“ITS BROKEN WALLS.”)
- 6.THE LAST LEAF. — (“AS HE TOTTERS O'ER THE GROUND WITH HIS CANE.”) — (“IN HIS PRIME.”) — (“THE PRUNING-KNIFE OF TIME”) — (“MY GRANDMAMMA HAS SAID.”) — (“BY THE CRIER ON HIS ROUND.”) — (“THE MOSSY MARBLES REST”) — (“THE LIPS THAT HE HAS PREST.”) — THE STAR AND THE WATER-LILY.
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