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 Last Look" (1858)
• "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)
• "Agassiz's Natural History" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (3) (1858)
• "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)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.