Work(s) of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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This listing contains work(s) of Oliver Wendell Holmes available for reading. Click on a book title's link below to select a book to read online.

Links to Categories below: [Essay] [Fiction/Novel] [Non-fiction] [Poem] [Short Story]


Titles in Fiction/Novel Category                                   Top

• Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny
  
• Guardian Angel, The
  
• Mortal Antipathy, A
  
• Over the Teacups
  

Titles in Short Story Category                                   Top

• Aphorism and a Lecture, An An American Wit And Humor story
  
• Visit To The Asylum For Aged And Decayed Punsters, A from "The Best American Humorous Short Stories"
  

Titles in Non-fiction Category                                   Top

• Memoir of John Lothrop Motley
  
• Our Hundred Days in Europe
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

Titles in Essay Category                                   Top

• Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The
  
• Medical Essays
  
• Pages From an Old Volume of Life A collection of essays
  
• Poet at the Breakfast Table, The The third and last of "The Breakfast-Table series" books of essays
  
• Professor at the Breakfast Table, The A sequel to "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"
  

Titles in Poem Category                                   Top

• "Ad Amicos"
  
• "Lucy" For Her Golden Wedding
  
• "Qui Vive?"
  
• "Thus Saith The Lord, I Offer Thee Three Things"
  
• Added For The Alumni Meeting, June 29,1869
  
• Additional Verses Written At The Request
  
• Aestivation
  
• After A Lecture On Keats
  
• After A Lecture On Moore
  
• After A Lecture On Shelley
  
• After A Lecture On Wordsworth
  
• After The Curfew
  
• After The Fire
  
• After-Dinner Poem, An
  
• Agnes
  
• Album Verses
  
• All Here
  
• Alone (poem V in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Ambition (poem I of Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• American Academy Centennial Celebration
  
• Angel-Thief, The
  
• Appeal For "The Old South", An
  
• Archbishop And Gil Blas, The
  
• Army Hymn
  
• At A Birthday Festival To J. R. Lowell
  
• At A Dinner To Admiral Farragut
  
• At A Dinner To General Grant
  
• At A Meeting Of Friends
  
• At The "Atlantic" Dinner
  
• At The Banquet To The Chinese Embassy
  
• At The Banquet To The Grand Duke Alexis
  
• At The Banquet To The Japanese Embassy
  
• At The Close Of A Course Of Lectures
  
• At The Pantomime
  
• At The Papyrus Club
  
• At The Saturday Club
  
• At The Turn Of The Road
  
• At The Unitarian Festival
  
• Aunt Tabitha
  
• Ave
  
• Avis
  
• Ballad Of The Boston Tea-Party, A
  
• Ballad Of The Oysterman, The
  
• Banker's Secret, The
  
• Before The Curfew - At My Fireside
  
• Bells, The
  
• Benjamin Peirce
  
• Bill And Joe
  
• Birthday Of Daniel Webster
  
• Birthday Tribute To J. F. Clarke, A
  
• Boston Common: Three Pictures
  
• Boston To Florence
  
• Boys, The
  
• Broken Circle, The
  
• Broomstick Train; Or, The Return Of The Witches, The
  
• Brother Jonathan's Lament For Sister Caroline
  
• Bryant's Seventieth Birthday
  
• Cacoethes Scribendi
  
• Cambridge Churchyard, The
  
• Chambered Nautilus, The
  
• Chanson Without Music
  
• Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve
  
• Comet, The
  
• Coming Era, The
  
• Contentment
  
• Crooked Footpath, The
  
• Daily Trials
  
• De Sauty
  
• Deacon's Masterpiece; or The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay", The
  
• Dedication Of The Pittsfield Cemetery
  
• Departed Days
  
• Dilemma, The
  
• Dorchester Giant, The
  
• Dorothy Q: A Family Portrait
  
• Edward Everett
  
• Epilogue To The Breakfast-table Series
  
• Even-Song
  
• Evening Thought, An
  
• Exile's Secret, The
  
• Extracts From A Medical Poem
  
• F. W. C
  
• Familiar Letter, A
  
• Family Record, A
  
• Fantasia
  
• Farewell To Agassiz, A
  
• Farewell To J. R. Lowell
  
• First Fan, The
  
• Flaneur, The
  
• Flower Of Liberty, The
  
• For Class Meeting
  
• For The Burns Centennial Celebration
  
• For The Centennial Dinner Of The Proprietors Of Boston Pier
  
• For The Commemoration Services
  
• For The Dedication Of The New City Library, Boston
  
• For The Meeting Of The Burns Club
  
• For The Moore Centennial Celebration
  
• For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday
  
• Fountain Of Youth, The
  
• Freedom, Our Queen
  
• From A Bachelor's Private Journal
  
• Girdle Of Friendship, The
  
• God Save The Flag
  
• Golden Flower, The
  
• Good Time Going!, A
  
• Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
  
• Gray Chief, The
  
• Grisette, La
  
• H. C. M. H. S. J. K. W
  
• Hail, Columbia!
  
• Height Of The Ridiculous, The
  
• Homesick In Heaven
  
• Hot Season, The
  
• How Not To Settle It
  
• How The Old Horse Won The Bet
  
• Hudson, The
  
• Humboldt's Birthday
  
• Hymn - The Word Of Promise
  
• Hymn After The Emancipation Proclamation
  
• Hymn At The Funeral Services Of Charles Sumner
  
• Hymn For The Celebration At The Laying Of The Cornerstone Of Harvard Memorial Ha
  
• Hymn For The Class-meeting
  
• Hymn For The Dedication Of Memorial Hall At Cambridge
  
• Hymn For The Fair At Chicago
  
• Hymn For The Inauguration Of The Statue Of Governor Andrew
  
• Hymn For The Same Occasion
  
• Hymn Of Peace, To The Music Of Keller's "American Hymn", A
  
• Hymn Of Trust
  
• Hymn Read At Dedication Of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital
  
• I Like You And I Love You
  
• Idols (poem XI in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Illustration Of A Picture: "A Spanish Girl Reverie"
  
• Impromptu, An
  
• In Memory Of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr
  
• In Memory Of John And Robert Ware
  
• In Response
  
• In The Quiet Days - An Old-year Song
  
• In The Twilight
  
• In Vita Minerva
  
• In Wartime - To Canaan - A Puritan War Song
  
• International Ode - Our Fathers' Land
  
• Iris, Her Book
  
• Iron Gate, The
  
• Island Hunting-Song, The
  
• J. D. R
  
• James Russell Lowell: 1819-1891
  
• Joseph Warren, M. D
  
• King's Chapel
  
• L'inconnue
  
• Last Blossom, The
  
• Last Charge, The
  
• Last Leaf, The
  
• Last Look: W. W. Swain, The
  
• Last Reader, The
  
• Last Survivor, The
  
• Latter-Day Warnings
  
• Lexington
  
• Lines
  
• Lines By A Clerk
  
• Lines Recited At The Berkshire Jubilee
  
• Living Temple, The
  
• Love (poem XII in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Lover's Secret, The
  
• Loving-cup Song, A
  
• Lyre Of Anacreon, The
  
• Maison D'or (Bar Harbor), La
  
• Manhood (poem VIII in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Mare Rubrum
  
• Martha
  
• Master And Scholar (poem IV in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Meeting Of The Alumni Of Harvard College
  
• Meeting Of The Dryads, The
  
• Meeting Of The National Sanitary Association, The
  
• Memorial Tribute To Dr. Samuel G. Howe, A
  
• Memorial Verses
  
• Midsummer
  
• Mind's Diet, The
  
• Modest Request, A
  
• Moral Bully, The
  
• Morning Visit [Medical Poem], The
  
• Mother's Secret, The
  
• Musa
  
• Music-Grinders, The
  
• My Annual
  
• My Aunt
  
• My Aviary
  
• Mysterious Visitor, The
  
• Nearing The Snow-Line
  
• Never Or Now
  
• New Eden, The
  
• No Time Like The Old Time
  
• Non-Resistance
  
• Noontide Lyric, A
  
• Nux Postcoenatica
  
• Ode For A Social Meeting With Slight Alterations By A Teetotaler
  
• Ode For Washington's Birthday
  
• Old Cambridge
  
• Old Cruiser, The
  
• Old Ironsides
  
• Old Man Dreams, The
  
• Old Man Of The Sea, The
  
• Old Player, The
  
• Old Tune, The
  
• On Lending A Punch-Bowl
  
• On The Death Of President Garfield
  
• On The Threshold
  
• Once More
  
• One Country
  
• Only Daughter, The
  
• Opening Of The Piano, The
  
• Opening The Window
  
• Organ-Blower, The
  
• Our Banker
  
• Our Dead Singer H. W. L
  
• Our Home--Our Country
  
• Our Indian Summer
  
• Our Limitations
  
• Our Oldest Friend
  
• Our Sweet Singer J. A.
  
• Our Yankee Girls
  
• Parson Turell's Legacy; Or, The President's Old Arm-chair
  
• Parting Health: To J. L. Motley, A
  
• Parting Hymn
  
• Parting Song, The
  
• Parting Word, The
  
• Peau De Chagrin Of State Street, The
  
• Philosopher To His Love, The
  
• Pilgrim's Vision, The
  
• Ploughman, The
  
• Poem At The Centennial Anniversary Dinner
  
• Poem At The Dedication Of The Halleck Monument
  
• Poem For The 250th Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College
  
• Poem For The Dedication Of The Fountain At Stratford-on-avon
  
• Poem For The Meeting Of The American Medical Association, A
  
• Poem Served To Order, A
  
• Poet's Lot, The
  
• Poetry: A Metrical Essay
  
• Portrait, A
  
• Portrait [Medical Poem], A
  
• Post-Prandial
  
• Prelude To A Volume Printed In Raised Letters For The Blind
  
• Programme
  
• Prologue
  
• Promise, The
  
• Questioning (poem VI in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Questions And Answers
  
• Reflections Of A Proud Pedestrian
  
• Regrets (poem II in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Remember--Forget
  
• Rhymed Lesson (Urania), A
  
• Rhymes Of A Life-Time
  
• Rhymes Of An Hour
  
• Rights (poem IX in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Rip Van Winkle, M. D [Medical Poem]
  
• Robinson Of Leyden
  
• Roman Aqueduct, A
  
• Rose And The Fern, The
  
• School-Boy, The
  
• Sea Dialogue, A
  
• Secret Of The Stars, The
  
• Semi-Centennial Celebration Of The New England Society
  
• Sentiment, A
  
• Sentiment [Medical Poem], A
  
• September Gale, The
  
• Shadows, The
  
• Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration
  
• Sherman's In Savannah
  
• Ship Of State, The
  
• Silent Melody, The
  
• Smiling Listener, The
  
• Song For A Temperance Dinner To Which Ladies Were Invited
  
• Song For The Centennial Celebration Of Harvard College, A
  
• Song Of "Twenty-Nine", A
  
• Song Of Other Days, A
  
• Song Written For The Dinner Given To Charles Dickens
  
• Songs In Many Keys
  
• Songs Of Welcome And Farewell
  
• Spectre Pig, The
  
• Spring
  
• Spring Has Come
  
• St. Anthony The Reformer
  
• Stanzas
  
• Star And The Water-lily, The
  
• Statesman's Secret, The
  
• Steamboat, The
  
• Stethoscope Song [Medical Poem], The
  
• Study, The
  
• Sun And Shadow, The
  
• Sun-Day Hymn, A
  
• Sweet Little Man, The
  
• Sympathies (poem III in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Tartarus
  
• To A Blank Sheet Of Paper
  
• To A Caged Lion
  
• To An English Friend
  
• To An Insect
  
• To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
  
• To Frederick Henry Hedge
  
• To George Peabody
  
• To Governor Swain
  
• To H. W. Longfellow
  
• To James Freeman Clarke
  
• To James Russell Lowell
  
• To John Greenleaf Whittier
  
• To My Old Readers
  
• To My Readers
  
• To R. B. H
  
• To The Eleven Ladies
  
• To The Poets Who Only Read And Listen
  
• To The Portrait Of "A Gentleman"
  
• To The Portrait Of "A Lady"
  
• Toadstool, The
  
• Toast To Wilkie Collins, A
  
• Too Young For Love
  
• Treadmill Song, The
  
• Truths (poem X in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  
• Two Armies [Medical Poem], The
  
• Two Poems To Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
• Two Sonnets: Harvard
  
• Two Streams, The
  
• Under The Violets
  
• Under The Washington Elm, Cambridge
  
• Union And Liberty
  
• Unsatisfied
  
• Verses For After-dinner
  
• Verses From The Oldest Portfolio
  
• Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum
  
• Vive La France
  
• Voice Of The Loyal North, A
  
• Voiceless, The
  
• Voyage Of The Good Ship Union
  
• Wasp And The Hornet, The
  
• Welcome To Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, A
  
• Welcome To The Chicago Commercial Club
  
• Welcome To The Grand Duke Alexis
  
• Welcome To The Nations
  
• What I Have Come For
  
• What We All Think
  
• Worship (poem VII in Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts)
  

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