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"Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky."
Old Ironsides.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!"
Old Ironsides.
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"Like sentinel and nun, they keep Their vigil on the green."
The Cambridge Churchyard.
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"The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb."
The Last Leaf.
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"I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!"
The Last Leaf.
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"Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way."
To an Insect.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace."
The Music-Grinders.
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"You think they are crusaders sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of sentiment And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody And break the legs of Time."
The Music-Grinders.
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"And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can."
The Height of the Ridiculous.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When the last reader reads no more."
The Last Reader.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land."
Poetry, a Metrical Essay.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"'T is the heart's current lends the cup its glow, Whate'er the fountain whence the draught may flow."
A Sentiment.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!"
A Rhymed Lesson. Urania.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs."
A Rhymed Lesson. Urania.
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"Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it."
Lines by a Clerk.
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"Where go the poet's lines? Answer, ye evening tapers! Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers!"
The Poet's Lot.
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"A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!"
The Voiceless.
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"O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses!"
The Voiceless.
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"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!"
The Chambered Nautilus.
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"His home! the Western giant smiles, And twirls the spotty globe to find it; This little speck, the British Isles? 'T is but a freckle,--never mind it."
A Good Time going.
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"But Memory blushes at the sneer, And Honor turns with frown defiant, And Freedom, leaning on her spear, Laughs louder than the laughing giant."
A Good Time going.
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"You hear that boy laughing?--you think he 's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all."
The Boys.
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"Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin."
How not to settle it.
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"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. i.
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"People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. i.
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"Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. i.
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.
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"There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: "Good Americans when they die go to Paris.""
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.
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"Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.
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"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.
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"The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. viii.
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1889).
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