Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
(1809–1894)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Works

Poetry

• "After the Curfew" (1889)
• "An After-Dinner Poem" (1843)
• "Angel of Peace" (1869)
• "At a Birthday Festival" (1859)
• "At a Meeting of Friends" (1859)
• "At the Saturday Club" (1888)
• "A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party" (1874)
• "A Birthday Tribute" (1860)
• "A Sun-Day Hymn"
• "Cacoethes Scribendi"
• "The Chambered Nautilus" (1858)
• "Contentment" (1858)
• "Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man" (1830)
• "The Deacon's Masterpiece or, the Wonderful "One-hoss Shay": A Logical Story" (1858)
• "Departed Days" (1840)
• "Dorothy Q" (1874)
• "Edward Everett: Our First Citizen" (1865)
• "Farewell to J. R. Lowell" (1855)
• "The Flâneur" (1882)
• "The Flower of Liberty"
• "For the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (1865)
• "For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday" (1877)
• "Francis Parkman" (1893)
• "The Girdle of Friendship" (1884)
• "God Save The Flag!" (1865)
• "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle" (1874)
• "Hymn at the Funeral Services of Charles Sumner" (1874)
• "Harvard" (1880)
• "The Height of the Ridiculous
• "In Memory of John Greenleaf Whittier" (1892)
• "In Memory of J. W.—R. W." in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (81) (1864)
• "International Ode" (1860)
• "James Russell Lowell" (1891)
• "Joseph Warren, M. D." (1875)
• "The Katydid"
• "The Last Leaf" (1831)
• "The Last Reader"
• "The Living Temple" (1858)
• "The Mind's Diet" (1850)
• "The Music Grinders" (1836)
• "My Annual" in The Atlantic Monthly, 17 (102) (1866)
• "Never or Now" (1862)
• "No Time Like the Old Time" (1865)
• "Lord of All Being"
• "O Lord of Hosts, Almighty King" (1861)
• "Ode for Washington's Birthday" (1856)
• "Old Cambridge" (1875)
• "Old Ironsides" (1830)
• "Opening the Window" (1875)
• "Our Dead Singer" (1888)
• "The Parting Song" (1857)
• "Poem at the Dedication of the Halleck Monument" (1869)
• "Questions and Answers" (1852)
• "The Rose and the Fern" (1890)
• "The September Gale"
• "The Steamboat" (1840)
• "The Stethoscope Song" (1848)
• "The Sweet Little Man"
• "To a Blank Sheet of Paper" (1830)
• "To an English Friend" (1852)
• "To an Insect" (1831)
• "To H. W. Longfellow" (1868)
• "To James Freeman Clarke" (1880)
• "To My Readers" (1862)
• "To the Poets Who Only Read and Listen" (1888)
• "To the Teachers of America" (1893)
• "A Toast to Wilkie Collins" (1874)
• "The Treadmill Song"
• "The Two Armies" (1858)
• "The Two Streams" (1859)
• "Under the Violets" (1859)
• "Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge" (1861)
• "Union and Liberty" (1861)
• "The Voiceless" (1858)
• "Youth" (1882)
• "The September Gale" (1909) from Pieces People Ask For

Novels

• Elsie Venner (1859–1860)

Essays

• "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" (1857–1858) (1858 ed.) (transcription project) ;(1865 ed.)(transcription project)
• "A Visit to the Autocrat's Landlady" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (6) (1858)
• "The Autocrat Gives a Breakfast to the Public" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (7) (1858)
• "Bread and the Newspaper"
• "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table"
• "Hawthorne" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (81) (1864)
  • "Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science" (with wikilinks) (1860)
• "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" illustrated by Walter Crane, (1894)

Other

• "Jackson, Charles," in The American Cyclopædia (1879) (biographies for Charles and James Jackson)

Works about Holmes

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• "To Holmes on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882) by James Russell Lowell
• "Ergo Iris" (1889) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• "O. W. Holmes on his Eightieth Birthday" (1889) by John Greenleaf Whittier
• "Oliver Wendell Holmes. In Memoriam." (1894) by Samuel Francis Smith
• "Holmes, Oliver Wendell," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Holmes, Oliver Wendell," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Holmes, Oliver Wendell," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Oliver Wendell Holmes" in Leslie Stephen's Studies of a Biographer (1898)