The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay", and Other Poems. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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       Oliver Wendell Holmes

      The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay", and Other Poems

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664607522

      Table of Contents

       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.”)

       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.”)

       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.