Potential Titles: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

In webs of living gauze - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Child of the wandering sea - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Through the deep caves of thought - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Full hot and high the sea would boil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Comet"

Snuffy old drone from the German hive - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Deacon's Masterpiece: Or the Wonderful 'One-Hoss-Shay'"

A sea over a pent volcano - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Daily Trials"

Whose arts have caged some devil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Daily Trials"

Could Memory's hand restore - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Departed Days"

Gaze not upon his shield of jet - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"

By all that thrills the beating heart - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"

Look not beneath his azure veil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"

Buttoned it with stars - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

Quivering on their silken threads - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

The skirt of night's descending robe - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

To you the words are ashes - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"

Rain his fire and brimstone round them - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"

Has emptied all the vengeance of the storm - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"

Here's damnation to the cut-throats! - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"

The dog-star of treason grows dim - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

And give her to the god of storms - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Old Ironsides"

Knaves are busier fools - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A Rhymed Lesson" (selections)

One constant element in luck - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A Rhymed Lesson" (selections)

Stick on conversation's burrs - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A Rhymed Lesson" (selections)

A knot of spinster Katydids - Oliver Wendell Holmes "To an Insect"

The promise still outruns the deed - Oliver Wendell Holmes "To My Readers"

Their battlefields' thunder and flame - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

Who inherit their fame - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

Sprinkled with starry light - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

The wide beams of thy full constellation - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

Cloud that would darken a star - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

While through the sounding sky - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

By madness and treachery blighted - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

We count the broken lyres - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Voiceless"

What endless melodies were poured - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Voiceless"


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