The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendall Holmes
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendall Holmes
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The youthful sire and the gray-haired son.
Damsel Dorothy ! Dorothy Q. !
Strange is the gift that I owe to you ; Such a gift as never a king Save to daughter or son might bring, — All my tenure of heart and hand.
All my title to house and land ; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and life !
What if a hundred years ago Those close-shut lips had answered No, When forth the tremulous question came That cost the maiden her Norman name^ And under the folds that look so... still The bodice swelled with the bosom's thrill?
Should I be I, or would it be One tenth another, to nine tenths me ?
Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes : Not the light gossamer stirs with less ; But never a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast.
And never an echo of speech or song That lives in the babbling air so long f There were tones in the voice that whis- pered then You may hear to-day in a hundred men.
lady and lover, how faint and far Your images hover, — and here we are, Solid and stirring in flesh and bone, — Edward's and Dorothy's — all theii own, — A goodly record for Time to show Of a syllable spoken so long ago !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The youthful sire and the gray-haired son.
Damsel Dorothy ! Dorothy Q. !
Strange is the gift that I owe to you ; Such a gift as never a king Save to daughter or son might bring, — All my tenure of heart and hand.
All my title to house and land ; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and life !
What if a hundred years ago Those close-shut lips had answered No, When forth the tremulous question came That cost the maiden her Norman name^ And under the folds that look so... still The bodice swelled with the bosom's thrill?
Should I be I, or would it be One tenth another, to nine tenths me ?
Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes : Not the light gossamer stirs with less ; But never a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast.
And never an echo of speech or song That lives in the babbling air so long f There were tones in the voice that whis- pered then You may hear to-day in a hundred men.
lady and lover, how faint and far Your images hover, — and here we are, Solid and stirring in flesh and bone, — Edward's and Dorothy's — all theii own, — A goodly record for Time to show Of a syllable spoken so long ago !
What to read after The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendall Holmes?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 to read onlineMoreLess
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